This weekend the Red Sox had a chance to stack some wins against the worst team in the big leagues, building momentum ahead of a tough homestand against two top World Series contenders.

It wound up being a missed opportunity, but Sunday at least the Red Sox made sure it wasn’t a disaster.

The Red Sox salvaged a four-game split with the White Sox on Sunday, coming from behind to take the series finale 6-4 in 10 innings. Reese McGuire tied the game with a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to help force extras, and Jamie Westbrook drove in the winning run with a sac fly of his own in the top of the 10th.

Rob Refsnyder followed that with an RBI single to add some insurance, and Cam Booser struck out two in a scoreless bottom of the 10th to earn the save.

“That was a great win today,” said David Hamilton, who went 2 for 5 with a home run, a double, two runs and a crucial stolen base to set up McGuire’s sac fly, in remarks to NESN’s Jahmai Webster. “That was some fun baseball, (the series) didn’t go like how we wanted to but overall a good game.”

Coming into the weekend a two-two split would have seemed unlikely and disappointing, especially after the Red Sox took the first game 14-2 on Thursday night. Boston combined for three runs over the following two games, and for much of Sunday they struggled to get the bats going against a White Sox pitching staff that ranked second-worst in MLB with 5.25 runs allowed per game entering the day.

The Red Sox actually scored first in each of their last two losses, and they did once again on Sunday after Jarren Duran notched his 10th triple of the season in the top of the fourth and came in to score after Rob Refsnyder grounded into a double play.

Duran is now the first Red Sox player to record 10 triples in a season since Jacoby Ellsbury had 10 in 2009. Only four Red Sox players have tallied 10 or more triples since the turn of the 21st century, with Nomar Garciaparra leading the way with 13 in 2003. Duran should have a great chance to blow past that mark given that the season isn’t even halfway finished.

Things came unglued in the bottom of the frame, however, when the Red Sox committed three errors and were punished with a three-run home run. Gavin Sheets benefitted from the first with Dom Smith dropped a throw at first base, Andrew Vaughn reached on the second when Hamilton attempted an ill-advised backwards glove flip to start a double play at second rather than take the routine play at first, and McGuire was charged with the third after throwing away a pickoff attempt.

That was immediately followed by Paul DeJong’s three-run bomb, which made it 3-1 White Sox.

The Red Sox were able to regain the initiative afterwards, with Hamilton atoning for his miscue with a line drive solo shot to right field his next time up in the top of the fifth. Boston then tied the game at 3-3 in the sixth when Duran walked, Refsnyder singled, both subsequently moved into scoring position and Garrett Cooper drove in Duran with an RBI groundout.

Disaster nearly struck again in the bottom of the inning when what should have been a routine fly ball to left fell in for a ground rule double. It appeared both Duran and Ceddanne Rafaela had a beat on it, but at the last minute a gust of wind appeared to catch the ball and neither were able to adjust in time.

The Red Sox were fortunate that the ball bounced over the fence, otherwise a run easily would have scored, but Brennan Bernardino made sure it didn’t make a difference. The left-hander struck out Oscar Colas, and then after intentionally walking Lenyn Sosa, also struck out Martin Maldonado to escape the jam unscathed.

According to the Red Sox Bernardino had held the opposition to 0 for 31 with six walks and a sacrifice fly over his last 38 batters faced with runners in scoring position as of the end of the sixth inning, but the White Sox finally got to him after he came back out for the seventh. Corey Julks led off with a double, advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Nicky Lopez and scored on an RBI single by Sheets, which put Chicago back up 4-3.

Hamilton gave the Red Sox a chance in the top of the ninth, hitting a leadoff double and then stealing third base to put the tying run 90 feet away. That set the stage for McGuire to tie the game on his sacrifice fly, and the Red Sox finished the job from there.

Looking to give their starters an extra day of rest, the Red Sox opted for a bullpen game for Sunday’s finale. Zack Kelly got the start and pitched two scoreless, and Greg Weissert, Justin Slaten, Bernardino, Brad Keller, Kenley Jansen and Booser all took the mound over the course of the afternoon. Jansen pitched a season-high two scoreless innings, his longest outing in a Red Sox uniform and his first two-inning appearance since 2021.

The Red Sox (33-33) will now have Monday off before opening a huge three-game series against the NL East-leading Philadelphia Phillies at Fenway Park on Tuesday. After that the Yankees await, making this a pivotal stretch for a club that’s spent the better part of a month hovering around .500.

“They’re good teams but I think we’re a good team too,” Hamilton said. “We’ve just got to find ways to win ballgames.”

Kutter Crawford (2-5, 3.51) is set to face Philadelphia’s Zack Wheeler (7-3, 2.23) in the opener. First pitch scheduled for 7:10 p.m.