Chicago White Sox at St. Louis Cardinals

· Major League Baseball

Chicago White Sox

75-72, 32-41 Away

Final
3 - 7

St. Louis Cardinals

73-75, 35-38 Home

Rookies Báez and Bernal lead Cardinals to 7-3 win over White Sox

Chicago White Sox vs. St. Louis Cardinals: Game Highlights

Chicago lost its fourth straight game and had its AL Central lead trimmed to one half game over Cleveland, which beat Minnesota 5-2. The White Sox have lost four in a row and nine of their last 12 games.

The heart of the Cardinals' lineup combined to go 10 for 16 with six RBI and six runs scored. Alec Burleson added an RBI single and an RBI double, and Jordan Walker singled, doubled and scored twice.

Anthony Kay (9-9) fell to 0-4 in his last six starts for Chicago. He lasted four innings, yielding three runs on five hits. The Cardinals added three more runs off of Trevor Richards in the fifth. Walker had a one-out double followed by consecutive run-scoring hits by Burleson, Báez and Bernal.

Gordon Graceffo (8-1) got the win for getting the final two outs of the fifth, including striking out pinch-hitter Tristan Peters with the bases loaded to protect a 3-2 lead. The White Sox also came up empty after loading the bases with one out in the sixth as Randal Grichuk struck out and Miguel Vargas flied out.

After the start of the game was delayed 70 minutes due to anticipated storms that didn't materialize, Meidroth hit the first pitch from Matthew Liberatore into the greenery in front of the left-center field bleachers for his 13th home run.

Meidroth added a 391-foot shot into the left-field bullpen in the third to even the score at 2.

Up next White Sox trade-deadline acquisition Luis Castillo (4-11, 5.57 ERA) starts opposite fellow right-hander Kyle Leahy (10-4, 3.41) in the second game of the series on Saturday night.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Peters grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Benintendi flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Benintendi hit for Quero
	9th Inning	C. Montgomery struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	O'Brien relieved Stanek
	8th Inning	Herrera flied out to center.

Statistics

CHW		STL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
2	Hit By Pitch	1
11	Ground Balls	9
7	Strikeouts	5
3	Runs Batted In	7
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	13
1	Stolen Bases	0
6	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	7
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	35
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
23	Runners Left On Base	19
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	5
16	Fly Balls	21
1	Caught Stealing	0
155	Pitches	142
0	Games Started	0
5	Pinch At Bats	0
2	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
16	Total Bases	18
42	Plate Appearances	38
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
3	Extra Base Hits	5
6.9	Runs Created	6.6
.265	Batting Average	.371
.400	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.471	Slugging Percentage	.514
.382	Secondary Average	.200
.405	On Base Percentage	.421
.875	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.935
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
7.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.4
30.0	Batter Rating	51.0
17.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.50	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.69	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.74
.206	Isolated Power	.143
0.86	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.40
.143	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.053
.118	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.171
6.0	Runs Produced	14.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
84.0	MLB Rating	98.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0