Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago White Sox

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Pittsburgh Pirates

73-73, 35-39 Away

Final
4 - 2

Chicago White Sox

75-70, 43-30 Home

Valdez homers and the Pirates use 8 pitchers in a 4-2 win over the White Sox

Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Chicago White Sox: Game Highlights

Rafael Flores Jr. added an RBI single to help the Pirates win for the eighth time in 10 games to climb back to .500.

Pittsburgh used eight pitchers to hand the White Sox a second straight loss and their seventh in their last 10. AL Central-leading Chicago (75-70) maintained a two-game lead over Cleveland, which lost at Baltimore.

The benches and bullpens emptied in the seventh, but order was quickly restored.

Yohan Ramirez, Pittsburgh's sixth pitcher, entered and got Miguel Vargas to ground into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded and the Pirates head 4-1. Sam Antonacci elbowed Brandon Lowe at second as he came up from his slide to set off the fracas.

Antonacci’s RBI infield single had driven in Chicago's first run.

White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami hit his 31st homer in the eighth to cut it to 4-2, but struck out in his first two times at the plate, running his streak of strikeouts to eight straight plate appearances. Murakami was hit by a pitch from Gregory Soto in his third time up.

The White Sox loaded the bases off Luke Weaver with one out in the eighth, but Chase Meidroth lined to third for an inning-ending double-play.

Pirates opener Lake Bachar got the first five outs. Brandon Eisert (3-2) followed with 2 1/3 innings of hitless ball, striking out five, for the win. Carmen Mlodzinski, Soto, Camilo Doval, Ramirez and Weaver followed before Mason Montgomery pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 11th save

White Sox starter Davis Martin (9-7) allowed one run, on Valdez’s 17th homer in the fifth, and four hits in five innings in his second start since coming off the injured list from a tight middle finger blister.

Up next Pirates RHP Jared Jones (3-6, 4.46 ERA) was set to start against White Sox LHP Hagen Smith (3-1, 0.56) on Thursday in the series finale.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Vargas struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Antonacci struck out looking. Chicago White Sox challenged: call on the field was upheld.
	9th Inning	Quero grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Montgomery relieved Weaver
	9th Inning	Quero hit for Teel
	9th Inning	Lowe struck out swinging.

Statistics

PIT		CHW
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	2
11	Ground Balls	9
5	Strikeouts	14
4	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	8
4	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	2
2	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	33
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
19	Runners Left On Base	16
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
18	Fly Balls	10
0	Caught Stealing	0
144	Pitches	154
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
13	Total Bases	13
38	Plate Appearances	38
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
1	Extra Base Hits	3
5.2	Runs Created	4.4
.294	Batting Average	.242
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.382	Slugging Percentage	.394
.294	Secondary Average	.242
.368	On Base Percentage	.342
.751	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.736
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
5.4	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.6
33.0	Batter Rating	23.0
34.0	At Bats Per Home Run	33.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.79	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.05
.088	Isolated Power	.152
0.60	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.21
.079	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.079
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
8.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
84.8	MLB Rating	75.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0