Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago White Sox

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Pittsburgh Pirates

72-73, 34-39 Away

Final
9 - 3

Chicago White Sox

75-69, 43-29 Home

Pirates back Bubba Chandler with 18 hits in 9-3 victory over White Sox

Bryan Reynolds had two of Pittsburgh’s five doubles off starter Sean Burke. Reynolds drove in two runs and scored twice as the Pirates jumped out to a 7-0 lead after two innings and rolled to their seventh victory in nine games behind an 18-hit outburst.

Oneil Cruz had three hits and two RBI and Spencer Horwitz drove in three runs to help deal the White Sox a fourth loss in six games that trimmed their AL Central lead over Cleveland to two games. Every starter had at least one hit for Pittsburgh, and seven had two or more.

Chandler (7-9) allowed two runs on four hits, striking out eight and walking none. Staked to an early lead, the 23-year-old rookie right-hander retired the first 12 White Sox batters before Andrew Benintendi lined his first of two doubles to lead off the fifth.

Chicago’s Kyle Teel hit his second homer in two games and singled. Munetaka Murakami struck out four times.

Burke (8-7) gave up seven runs and eight hits to match career worsts and did it while getting only four outs, his shortest outing in three years in the majors. The right-hander leads the White Sox in innings pitched and had thrown 5 2/3 scoreless innings of one-hit ball in his previous start at Houston.

The Pirates jumped ahead 5-0 in the first. The first seven Pittsburgh batters reached base before Burke fanned Jacob Gonzalez for the first out.

Konnor Griffin, Reynolds, Cruz and Esmerlyn Valdez all lined deep doubles off center-cut pitches. Horwitz and Flores singled and Brandon Lowe walked before Burke retired three straight.

The Pirates upped it to 7-0 in the second. Tyler Schweitzer relieved with one out and the bases loaded and yielded a single to Horwitz that scored two runs.

Flores added a solo shot and Reynolds a sacrifice fly in the fifth to make it 9-0.

Up next RHP Lake Bachar (1-3, 3.59 ERA) will open for the Pirates against White Sox RHP Davis Martin (9-6, 4.13) on Wednesday night.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	C. Montgomery grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Benintendi flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Murakami struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Ramírez relieved Dotel
	9th Inning	Triolo at third base.
	9th Inning	Griffin lined out to center.

Statistics

PIT		CHW
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	9
3	Strikeouts	10
9	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
18	Hits	6
1	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	0
0	Catcher Interference	0
9	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
42	At Bats	32
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
21	Runners Left On Base	6
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
6	Doubles	2
26	Fly Balls	13
1	Caught Stealing	0
166	Pitches	134
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
27	Total Bases	11
46	Plate Appearances	32
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
7	Extra Base Hits	3
11.2	Runs Created	1.5
.429	Batting Average	.188
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.643	Slugging Percentage	.344
.286	Secondary Average	.156
.457	On Base Percentage	.188
1.099	On-Base-Plus-Slugging	.531
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
11.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.5
70.0	Batter Rating	25.0
42.0	At Bats Per Home Run	32.0
0.50	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.61	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.19
.214	Isolated Power	.156
1.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.00
.065	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.000
-.143	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.031
18.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.7	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.2
116.3	MLB Rating	73.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0