CLEVELAND (AP) — The Chicago White Sox were hoping 2025 would be better after they lost 121 games last year, a major league record since 1900.
Instead, their pain is continuing in new and unique ways.
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Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Emmanuel Clase, center and catcher Austin Hedges, right, walk off the field past Chicago White Sox third base coach Justin Jirschele (17) after the Guardians defeated the White Sox in a baseball game in Cleveland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Chicago White Sox's Mike Tauchman slams his helmet down after being tagged out by Cleveland Guardians catcher Austin Hedges in the ninth inning of a baseball game in Cleveland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Chicago White Sox's Korey Lee grimaces as he is helped off the field after injuring himself at first base in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Chicago White Sox's Korey Lee grimaces after injuring himself at first base in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Chicago White Sox's Mike Tauchman (18) kneels after being tagged out by Cleveland Guardians catcher Austin Hedges in the ninth inning of a baseball game in Cleveland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Chicago's 3-2 loss to Cleveland on Wednesday night was its seventh straight. The South Siders are 2-9, the same record they had after 11 games last season.
The White Sox were on the verge of tying the score in the ninth inning when Mike Tauchman appeared to get injured while rounding third base after an RBI single by Miguel Vargas.
Tauchman, who just came off the injured list Sunday after sustaining a right hamstring strain late in spring training, pulled up after rounding third and was tagged by catcher Austin Hedges for the final out following a throw from left fielder Steven Kwan.
Chicago manager Will Venable said after the game that Tauchman was still being evaluated for a lower-body injury.
“It’s unfortunate, obviously. Hope Mike is all right, and the outcome of the game speaks for itself,” Venable said. “We're still gathering information on him and see what we got.”
Kwan said he thought it was going to be a close play at the plate, so he was just trying to secure the ball at first.
“It wasn’t really a great throw, but Austin corralled it and I saw how nonchalant (Tauchman) was," Kwan said. "I saw the guy pulling up and you never want to see a guy pulling up like that, especially when the game is on the line. You had to know that was really hurting him.”
The White Sox held the Guardians to three hits for the second straight day, but still lost. It's the first time in the 125-year history of the franchise the team has dropped consecutive games with three or fewer hits allowed.
The close defeat wasn't the only unfortunate thing to happen to Chicago on Wednesday.
White Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi, their best offensive player this season, was placed on the 10-day injured list before the game. During the sixth inning, catcher Korey Lee had to be helped off the field after he rolled his left ankle.
Lee was trying to get back to first base after pinch-hitter Nick Maton struck out when he stepped awkwardly on the bag as Hedges made a pickoff throw. Lee got back in time initially but his foot came off the bag and he was tagged out by Carlos Santana to end the inning.
Venable said X-rays on Lee's left ankle were negative and he was undergoing more tests.
Benintendi is sidelined because of a left adductor strain. He said before Wednesday's game that he thinks the injury occurred during the first inning of Saturday’s game when he made a leaping catch into the left-field wall to rob Jake Rogers of a hit.
Benintendi leads the White Sox in several offensive categories, including batting average (.290), total bases (15) and RBIs (six). He also is tied for the team lead in home runs with two.
“He’s a big part of our offense. I mean, he’s right there in the heart of our order every day,” Venable said. “He’s a guy that I think everyone looks to and has that kind of stability and presence in our lineup that we’re definitely going to miss.”
The White Sox are batting .202 after Wednesday's game, the third-lowest average in the majors.
“I think right now you’re seeing some quality at-bats and we’re just not having the results,” Venable said. “There’s a process in play here that we’ve gone through. We’re really happy about some of the underlying stuff. We look forward to that bringing results on the field with runs and wins.”
If Tauchman and Lee end up joining Benintendi on the injured list, the White Sox might end up being short-handed for Thursday's early afternoon start.
Cleveland — which won its home opener 1-0 on Tuesday on a game-ending walk to Nolan Jones with the bases loaded — has won two straight with three or fewer hits for the first time since 1901.
The Guardians are the first team since the 1995 Colorado Rockies to do that.
“Yeah, it’s definitely something a little different,” Kwan said. “You come to the ballpark, you can see something new every day, so it’s good that we were on this end of it. But we could have very easily been on the other side.”
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Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Emmanuel Clase, center and catcher Austin Hedges, right, walk off the field past Chicago White Sox third base coach Justin Jirschele (17) after the Guardians defeated the White Sox in a baseball game in Cleveland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Chicago White Sox's Mike Tauchman slams his helmet down after being tagged out by Cleveland Guardians catcher Austin Hedges in the ninth inning of a baseball game in Cleveland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Chicago White Sox's Korey Lee grimaces as he is helped off the field after injuring himself at first base in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Chicago White Sox's Korey Lee grimaces after injuring himself at first base in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Chicago White Sox's Mike Tauchman (18) kneels after being tagged out by Cleveland Guardians catcher Austin Hedges in the ninth inning of a baseball game in Cleveland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever.
In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation.
Video of the clash taken by The Associated Press showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area.
Immigrant advocacy groups have conducted extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge.
But within minutes of ramming the door in a neighborhood filled with single-family homes, the handcuffed man was led away.
More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News on Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement.
The Twin Cities — the latest target in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign — is bracing for what is next after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer on Wednesday.
“We’re seeing a lot of immigration enforcement across Minneapolis and across the state, federal agents just swarming around our neighborhoods,” said Jason Chavez, a Minneapolis city councilmember. “They’ve definitely been out here.”
Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents an area with a growing immigrant population, said he is closely monitoring information from chat groups about where residents are seeing agents operating.
People holding whistles positioned themselves in freezing temperatures on street corners Sunday in the neighborhood where Good was killed, watching for any signs of federal agents.
More than 20,000 people have taken part in a variety of trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election, said Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for Unidos MN, a local human rights organization .
“It’s a role that people choose to take on voluntarily, because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.
The protests have been largely peaceful, but residents remained anxious. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will start offering remote learning for the next month in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out while tensions remain high.
Many schools closed last week after Good’s shooting and the upheaval that followed.
While the enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said that the investigation into Good's shooting death should not be overseen solely by the federal government.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.
“How can we trust the federal government to do an objective, unbiased investigation, without prejudice, when at the beginning of that investigation they have already announced exactly what they saw — what they think happened," Smith said on ABC’s "This Week."
The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents and that Good had “weaponized” her vehicle.
Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended the officer on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing.”
"That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not short time to make a decision to save his life and his other fellow agents,” he said.
Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota wouldn't be needed “if local jurisdictions worked with us to turn over these criminally illegal aliens once they are already considered a public safety threat by the locals.”
The killing of Good by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests in cities across the country over the weekend, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Oakland, California.
Contributing were Associated Press journalists Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Thomas Strong in Washington; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio.
A woman gets into an altercation with a federal immigration officer as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A federal immigration officer deploys pepper spray as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A family member, center, reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Bystanders are treated after being pepper sprayed as federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A family member reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Federal agents look on after detaining a person during a patrol in Minneapolis, Minn., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Bystanders react after a man was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People stand near a memorial at the site where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
A man looks out of a car window after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Border Patrol agents detain a man, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
People shout toward Border Patrol agents making an arrest, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Demonstrators protest outside the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey holds a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
Protesters react as they visit a makeshift memorial during a rally for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer earlier in the week, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
