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To the moon! Murakami homers in 4th straight game in historic start
PHOENIX — Munetaka Murakami homered on Tuesday for a fourth straight game, giving him nine for the season. But he was only part of the White Sox offensive highlights against the D-backs' Merrill Kelly in the first two innings.
Miguel Vargas and Colson Montgomery followed Murakami with long home runs, giving the White Sox three long balls in a row during a three-run second after a four-run first. Murakami’s nine home runs are the most of any Japanese-born player in his first 23 MLB games.
Munetaka Murakami joins Shohei Ohtani and Seiya Suzuki as the only Japanese-born players to ever homer in 4 straight MLB games 🤩 pic.twitter.com/1xnyhvcCz3
Munetaka Murakami, as Advertised
The book on Munetaka Murakami was pretty straightforward when he hit the market this winter. Phenomenal cosmic power – itty bitty contact rate. While acknowledging recent injuries, our writeup noted his contact rates against good velocity (63%) and secondary pitches (50%) as red flags in his profile. And these weren’t little red flags, either. As Eric and James put it, “…if Murakami is only ever the quality of contact hitter we’ve seen the last three years, with no changes or improvements, he basically can’t be a good MLB hitter.”
Through a month of play, Murakami has been a very good MLB hitter, with a 153 wRC+ driven by a 21.5% walk rate and eight homers. But he’s struggled with contact, and that’s putting it mildly. He’s striking out a third of the time so far, with the fourth-lowest contact rate in baseball through Sunday’s action. So what can we say about that? One answer is that it’s too soon to say – either his contact rate will go up or his production will go down. But that’s pretty unsatisfying. To be fair, it’s probably right, but that doesn’t make it satisfying. So let’s break his game down more granularly to see where the whiffs are coming from, where the power is coming from, and how the two are related.
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White Sox 7-4 Athletics (Apr 19, 2026) Game Recap
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — — Rookie Munetaka Murakami and Miguel Vargas hit two of Chicago's four home runs off Jeffrey Springs, and rookie Noah Schultz allowed one hit over five innings for his first major league win as the Chicago White Sox beat the Athletics 7-4 on Sunday.
Making his second career start, Schultz (1-1) gave up Darell Hernaiz's solo home run in the second inning. The left-hander struck out six and walked one in the rubber game of the series.
Vargas led off with a single in the fifth and Murakami followed with his third homer of the series and eighth of the season — a 425-foot shot to right field. Colson Montgomery homered with two outs — his fifth — for a 7-1 lead.
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