White Sox Minor Keys: May 22, 2026

Christian Oppor's season was crying out for an Arizona reset, and the White Sox are finally giving it to him.

The club is taking Oppor out of the Birmingham rotation and putting him on pause after he walked 36 batters and plunked six others over his first eight starts and 24⅔ innings.

As grisly as those numbers are, they don't quite tell the whole story. Oppor's control has been a mess since the start of the season, but it's spiraled on him to truly troubling degrees over his last three starts.

In his most recent outing against Biloxi on Wednesday, he opened his evening with three straight walks, throwing just one strike over those 13 pitches. He had the same issues in the second, and might have run up against pitch limits were it not for two Shuckers baserunning outs.

The White Sox used the Arizona reset to fantastic results with Colson Montgomery last year, but they also tried the same playbook with Jairo Iriarte after a rocky start to his season in Charlotte, and he's now pitching in the Barons' bullpen.

Charlotte 4, Gwinnett 3 (10 innings)

• Rikuu Nishida went 0-for-3 with a walk, strikeout, sac bunt and stolen base.
• Braden Montgomery was 0-for-3 with two walks and two strikeouts. He was also picked off.
• Junior Pérez went 1-for-2 with a double, two walks and a stolen base.
• Jacob Gonzalez struck out thrice during an 0-for-5 night.
• Joe Rock's org debut: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 15 of 23 pitches for strikes.
• Shane Murphy: 5 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 46 of 62 pitches for strikes.
• Ben Peoples had an off night: 1 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 17 of 32 pitches for strikes.

Winston-Salem 6, Greensboro 3 (Game 1, 7 innings)

• Kyle Lodise went 0-for-3 with a walk, two strikeouts and a stolen base.
• Caleb Bonemer, 1-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base.
• Boston Smith went 1-for-3 with a homer, walk and strikeout.
• George Wolkow had a perfect night, homering, single and walking twice.

Highlights:

*Wolkow's homer came off 19-year-old phenom Seth Hernandez, who came into the game having allowed just three runs and 24 baserunners over 33 innings while striking out 57. His line in this one: 2.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 5 K, 3 HR.

Greensboro 8, Winston-Salem 4 (Game 2, 7 innings)

• Kyle Lodise, 1-for-4 with a homer and a strikeout.
• Caleb Bonemer went 0-for-3 with an HBP and a strikeout.
• Boston Smith, 0-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout.
• George Wolkkow went 1-for-3 with a strikeout.
• Seth Keener: 0.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 10 of 17 pitches for strikes.

Kannapolis 3, Myrtle Beach 2

• Jaden Fauske singled, walked and struck out twice. He was also caught stealing.
• Billy Carlson was 1-for-4 with a double and two strikeouts.
• Javier Mogollón went 0-for-4 with a strikeout.
• Matthew Boughton, 0-for-2 with a sac fly.
• Blaine Wynk: 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K, 30 of 44 pitches for strikes.

ACL Brewers 8, ACL White Sox 6

• Joradn Rich went 1-for-3 with two walks and a stolen base.
• Christian Gonzalez was 1-for-2 with a walk.
• Eduardo Herrera, 0-for-4 with a walk and two strikeouts. He was caught stealing.
• Landon Hodge went 0-for3- with two walks.
• Yordani Soto doubled, walked, struck out twice and was caught stealing.
• Alejandro Cruz went 0-for-3 with an HBP and a strikeout.
• Blake Shepardson retired the only batter he faced to end the first inning for starter Fidel Montero, who reentered to pitch the second.

Birmingham at Biloxi PPD