The White Sox are suddenly on the verge of ending 120 years of history

The Chicago White Sox have already spent the past week making their miserable recent history feel much further away.

Now they can do something Wednesday that no White Sox team has accomplished in 120 years.

The White Sox are one win away

Chicago's 4-3 win over the Cleveland Guardians on Monday gave the White Sox a commanding 2-0 lead in the American League Division Series. One more victory sends them to the ALCS for the first time since the 2005 World Series championship season.

That alone would make Game 3 one of the biggest games on the South Side in decades.

Somehow, there is more.

The series now moves to Rate Field, where the White Sox will have a chance to clinch a postseason series at home for the first time since 1906.

Yes, 1906.

That year, the White Sox beat the Chicago Cubs at South Side Park to win the World Series. It remains the last time Chicago celebrated a playoff series-clinching victory on its home field.

The drought can finally end Wednesday.

Chicago's turnaround keeps getting harder to believe

There was no gradual climb toward this moment.

The White Sox became the first MLB team to reach the postseason immediately following three consecutive seasons with at least 100 losses. That stretch included the infamous 2024 club that lost 121 games, the most by an MLB team in the modern era.

Now look at them.

Chicago swept the Houston Astros in the Wild Card Series and then walked into Cleveland and won the first two games of the ALDS. The White Sox are 4-0 this postseason, with every victory coming away from Chicago.

They have already won more postseason games this October than they managed over the previous 20 years combined.

That sentence sounds ridiculous.

So does just about everything involving the 2026 White Sox.

The kids aren't acting like kids anymore

The most fascinating part of Chicago's postseason run might be who keeps delivering the biggest moments.

Braden Montgomery provided the defining swing Monday, ripping a two-run double in the sixth inning to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead. Chase Meidroth immediately followed with an RBI single.

Chicago has now received three game-winning RBIs from rookies through its first four postseason games. Since 1974, only one team has had more rookie game-winning RBIs in an entire postseason.

Then there was Sean Burke.

Burke entered in the third inning Monday and completely changed the game, eventually retiring 13 consecutive Guardians. He allowed one hit and one run across 5 1/3 innings while striking out six.

This doesn't look like a young team happy to have arrived earlier than expected.

It looks like a team trying to keep playing until somebody finally forces it to stop.

Wednesday could become a night White Sox fans never forget

Chicago doesn't need to win the World Series on Wednesday. It doesn't even need to win the American League pennant.

It only needs one more win.

One win sends the White Sox back to the ALCS after a 21-year absence. One win moves a team that lost 121 games two years ago within four victories of the World Series.

And one win at home would accomplish something generations of White Sox fans have never witnessed.

The last time the White Sox clinched a postseason series in Chicago, Theodore Roosevelt was president, the first radio broadcast was still years away and Rate Field's great-great-grandfather wasn't even a thought.

One hundred and twenty years later, the White Sox finally have another chance.

All they have to do is win one more game.

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