Grant Taylor Steals Show with 4-Inning Save, Setting Tone for White Sox to Start ALDS

White Sox's Grant Taylor Delivers Historic Performance in 2026 ALDS

Chicago White Sox right-handed reliever Grant Taylor accomplished an extremely rare feat in MLB postseason history.

Column: Grant Taylor and the Chicago White Sox relievers keep doing ‘our little thing’ in Game 1 win

Grant Taylor and four other Chicago White Sox pitchers combined for a 3-0 shutout Saturday, allowing just three hits and striking out 12 Cleveland Guardians in Game 1 of the ALDS.

Grant Taylor steals show with 4-inning save, setting tone for White Sox to start ALDS

The star of the White Sox staff was Grant Taylor, who became the sixth pitcher in MLB postseason history to work at least four innings and pick up a save.

Grant Taylor caps White Sox' latest bullpen game with four-inning save

What the Sox are doing with their pitching staff isn’t normal. For normal teams — you know, teams with a rotation — the starting pitcher goes, say, five, maybe even (gasp) six innings. It does happen.

The Playoffs Are Revealing The Future White Sox Rotation

The terms “starter” and “reliever” don’t mean much to the White Sox. The club has consistently employed openers and bulk pitchers in lieu of typical starters this season. The postseason has been no different. Sean Burke made a somewhat normal start in the clincher against the Astros, but two quasi-starters came in after him (Anthony Kay, Erick Fedde). The other two games have followed the more typical all-hands-on-deck blueprint. Fedde and Sean …

White Sox ALDS Game 1 takeaways: Every series starts with Grant Taylor breaking new ground

If anybody ever uses “pitches per out” as a metric, it’s probably used for a start that went fewer than two innings, similar to the way underperforming players are the ones who have their salaries divided into games, hours or minutes. Here, however, it’s pretty effective for explaining Will Venable’s decision to let Grant Taylor…