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White Sox clinch first playoff berth since 2021 with 9-1 blowout win over Royals

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The Chicago White Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals 9-1 to clinch their first playoff berth in five years.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In a season with 11 walk-off victories, 35 come-from-behind wins, 31 usages of an opener, and countless defied expectations, the White Sox clinched their first playoff berth in five years on Thursday with a drama-free 9-1 blowout of the last-place Royals.After a week full of pondering season-series tiebreakers and which stragglers in the American League Wild Card race needed to lose to enable the Sox to clinch, they entered Thursday afternoon with a much clearer mandate: win,…

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