Infielder Chase Meidroth makes successful big league debut with the Chicago White Sox

CHICAGO (AP) — It was quite a day for Chase Meidroth and the Chicago White Sox.

Meidroth singled and walked three times in his big league debut, helping the White Sox pound the Boston Red Sox 11-1 on Friday night. He also scored twice and showed off his defensive skills at second base.

Meidroth, one of the team's top prospects, was brought up from Triple-A Charlotte before the series opener against Boston. He was inserted into the lineup in the seventh spot.

“It was a lot of fun once I got out there,” he said. “We’ve got such a good group here and they made the transition super easy for me. It was another baseball game and I had a lot of fun playing here tonight.”

The White Sox also recalled left-hander Brandon Eisert from their top minor league affiliate. Left-hander Fraser Ellard was placed on the 15-day injured list with a strained right hamstring. Outfielder Greg Jones was sent down, and right-hander Justin Anderson was designated for assignment.

Meidroth walked and scored on Jacob Amaya's double in the second inning. He singled in the fourth for his first major league hit and scored on Miguel Vargas' double. He also walked in the fifth and the seventh.

Meidroth, who also started a slick inning-ending double play in the top of the second, became the first player with a hit and three walks in his major league debut since Larry Walker with the Montreal Expos on Aug. 16, 1989, according to Stats Perform.

“I’m not exactly like looking at how much I walk," Meidroth said. "I’m just trying to win as many pitches as I can in the game.”

Manager Will Venable said Meidroth also will play shortstop with the big league club.

“I think he’s a really unique player where you get the plus-defense up the middle and obviously his at-bats and the way he goes about it with his approach," Venable said before the victory. "He’s been impactful getting on base. He’s been slugging and looking forward to seeing how that translates up here for Chase.”

The 23-year-old Meidroth was traded by the Red Sox to the White Sox in the Garrett Crochet deal in December. Crochet is slated to make his first start against his former team on Sunday.

Meidroth was a fourth-round pick in the 2022 amateur draft out of the University of San Diego. He hit .267 with three homers and four RBIs in nine games with Charlotte before his promotion.

He played for Triple-A Worcester last season, batting .293 with seven homers and 57 RBIs in 122 games.

"We just want him to be as comfortable as possible, go out there and be himself,” White Sox general manager Chris Getz said before the game. “The plan is for him to play regularly. You know he deserves that and he’ll get the opportunity.”

Eisert struck out two in a perfect ninth inning against the Red Sox.

The 32-year-old Anderson went 1-2 with a 4.39 ERA in 56 appearances with the White Sox in 2024. He began this year with Charlotte, allowing five runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings in his first four games.

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Chicago White Sox's Chase Meidroth (21) scores on a double from Jacob Amaya during the second inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Friday, April 11, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Chicago White Sox's Chase Meidroth, left, and Boston Red Sox's Triston Casas (36) greet each other before a baseball game Friday, April 11, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Chicago White Sox's Chase Meidroth (21) scores on a double from Jacob Amaya during the second inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Friday, April 11, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Chicago White Sox's Chase Meidroth (10) runs the bases on a double from Jacob Amaya during the second inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Friday, April 11, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Chicago White Sox's Chase Meidroth (10) is walked by Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Sean Newcomb (19) during the second inning of a baseball game Friday, April 11, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Chicago White Sox's Chase Meidroth (10) takes the field for a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Friday, April 11, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Strikes on cities across Iran have killed more than 25 people Sunday into Monday, while in Israel's Haifa two people were found dead and two others were missing in rubble a day after an Iranian attack.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday stepped up his threat to hit Iran's critical infrastructure hard if the country's government doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline.

Trump punctuated his threat with profanity in a social media post, saying Tuesday will be “Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.”

The war began with joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Feb. 28 and has killed thousands, shaken global markets, cut off key shipping routes and spiked fuel prices. Both sides have threatened and hit civilian targets, bringing warnings of possible war crimes from the United Nations and international law experts.

Here is the latest:

Iran has executed another man convicted over charges stemming from the nationwide protests that swept Iran in January.

The judiciary’s Mizan news agency identified the man hanged as Ali Fahim in a report Monday.

It was unclear when he was executed.

Fahim had been convicted of allegedly storming a military base to seize weapons.

Amnesty International said Fahim and others convicted in the case “were subjected to torture and other ill-treatment in detention, including beatings, floggings, prolonged solitary confinement, and death threats at gunpoint before being convicted in grossly unfair trials that relied on forced ‘confessions’ extracted under torture and lasted only a few hours.”

The Human Rights Activist News Agency had said Fahim and others had entered a Tehran base of the all-volunteer Basij militia, an arm of the Revolutionary Guard, after it had been burned, then had been forced into confessions.

Israel rescue services reported Monday morning several sites were hit by missiles launched from Iran toward multiple cities in the center of Israel.

In Petach Tikvah, paramedics provided medical treatment to an injured woman in serious condition with a chest injury from shrapnel and evacuated her to the Beilinson Hospital.

Fire fighters in that city are handling cars on fire and continue searching to ensure there are no people trapped in the rubble.

In Tel Aviv, a man slightly injured by glass shrapnel was evacuated to the Ichilov Hospital.

Footage provided by rescue service Magen David Adom shows damage to residential buildings due to the attack.

Meanwhile, Israel’s military warned the public Monday morning of another missile barrage coming from Iran, the fourth-such alert of the day.

Israel’s Magen David Adom and Fire and Rescue services said early Monday that there are several reported sites of Iranian missile hits in the northern city of Haifa.

In one site, four people were slightly injured, including two children.

The missile attacks hit residential areas and a factory in the city.

The factory was hit by shrapnel from an interception.

It is unclear if all the reported hits were caused by shrapnel from interception or direct hits.

Video footage provided by Magen David Adom of the affected sites show active fire and bombed cars in what appears to be a residential area.

The missile strikes come a day after another attack from Iran also hit a Haifa residential area, killing two people and injuring others.

Two other people remain missing under the rubble caused by Sunday's strike and their fate is still unknown.

In the United Arab Emirates’ capital of Abu Dhabi, authorities said a Ghanaian man suffered wounds from shrapnel after the interception of an Iranian missile over the city’s Musaffah neighborhood.

That’s near Al Dhafra Air Base, which hosts U.S. forces and has been repeatedly targeted by Iran in the war.

Women hold Iranian flags during a pro-government gathering in a square in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

A picture of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hangs on the side of the road in the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, early Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Rescue workers search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a crowded neighbourhood south of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A commercial plane is preparing to land at Beirut Airport as smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Israeli security forces and rescue teams work amid the rubble of a residential building struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, Israel, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)