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White Sox get needed boost in dramatic game-winning home run from Randal Grichuk

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ST. LOUIS – Throughout losing nine of 12 games, matching a season-high four-game skid, and seeing their division lead over the Cleveland Guardians shrink to just half a game, White Sox players and coaches insisted that vibes remained high. They professed faith in the brand of baseball , the slugging-reliant offense, the piecemeal pitching staff and the loose clubhouse atmosphere that carried them to this point, would pull them out of a mid-September dive before they crashed into the ground. Then 35-year-old Randal Grichuk improbably sprayed a two-out, two-strike, two-run go-ahead opposite-field homer over the right field wall of Busch Stadium, where he began his career 12 years prior. After Bryan Hudson pitched a perfect ninth to complete a theft of a 6-5 victory, something akin to all the injuries of a hockey team being revealed after a long postseason run played out in the visitor’s locker room, but in the form of White Sox players admitting how much they needed the moment that Grich

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