Chicago White Sox at St. Louis Cardinals

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Chicago White Sox

76-72, 33-41 Away

Final
6 - 5

St. Louis Cardinals

73-76, 35-39 Home

Grichuk hits a 9th inning HR to help White Sox beat Cardinals 6-5

Grichuk, who entered the game as a pinch hitter in the fourth inning, hit his 13th home run of the season off Riley O’Brien (3-8).

Bryan Hudson pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn his eighth save after Jordan Hicks (3-2) recorded the final out of the eighth inning for Chicago, which has a 1 1/2 game lead over the Cleveland Guardians in the AL Central.

Cardinals rookie Leo Bernal hit his third homer of the season to right field in the eighth inning off Grant Taylor to give St. Louis a 5-4 lead.

Chicago scored three runs to tie the game at 4-all in the fifth inning when Luis Gastelum entered the game after Cooper Hjerpe walked Munetaka Murakami with the bases loaded and nobody out in the fifth inning. He induced Grichuk to ground into a run-scoring double play before Nathan Church threw out Tristan Peters at second base after he hit an RBI single.

Hjerpe allowed four runs on two hits and four walks and hit a pair of batters in one-plus inning after tossing four perfect innings in his major league debut Sunday.

Church had three hits and an RBI for St. Louis to extend his career-best hitting streak to 11 games.

Cardinals starter Kyle Leahy allowed two hits and struck out four in three scoreless innings.

White Sox opener Sean Newcomb allowed one run and had four strikeouts in 1 1/3 innings.

Up next RHP Michael McGreevy (6-9, 3.92 ERA) will start for the Cardinals against the White Sox, who have not named a starter for Sunday’s series finale.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Bernal grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Walker struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Walker hit for Scott II
	9th Inning	Burleson lined out to third.
	9th Inning	Hudson relieved Hicks
	9th Inning	Peters in left field.

Statistics

CHW		STL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
3	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	6
12	Strikeouts	13
5	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	8
2	Stolen Bases	0
7	Walks	6
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	5
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
32	At Bats	34
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
19	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
10	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	0
163	Pitches	173
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
9	Total Bases	13
42	Plate Appearances	41
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
1	Extra Base Hits	3
4.6	Runs Created	5.0
.188	Batting Average	.235
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.281	Slugging Percentage	.382
.375	Secondary Average	.324
.381	On Base Percentage	.341
.662	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.724
1.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
4.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.0
33.0	Batter Rating	35.0
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	34.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.88	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.22
.094	Isolated Power	.147
0.58	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.46
.167	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.146
.188	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.088
11.0	Runs Produced	10.0
0.8	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
78.5	MLB Rating	82.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0