That run ended with Wednesday’s heartbreaking 3-2 defeat to the St. Louis Cardinals when Yadier Molina hit a three-run triple in the eighth inning off closer David Robertson. We’ll hit on all of the biggest moments from the day that you may have missed, while providing highlights, photos and interesting stats. 148 with a. 193 on-base percentage, no homers, 14 strikeouts and just two RBIs in his first 17 games of July.
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“I think it was a cutter, right on the corner away”.
But the White Sox were not secure yet, as they went to the top of the eighth inning with a lead.
Cardinals Miguel Socolovich received his fourth win. Matheny then brought in Kevin Siegrist to face Adam LaRoche and give his team the lefty vs lefty matchup they wanted at the plate.
St. Louis (60-34) has won four of five heading into a season-long 11-game homestand beginning on Thursday night against Kansas City.
“We were attacking the zone with the fastball and (pulling) away with the breaking ball”, Molina said of Lynn. “You just have to get in the box and be confident, expect good things to happen”. “I don’t know what else to say, I threw my best pitch and he got me”.
It was another heartbreaking loss for the last-place White Sox (42-50), who have dropped four straight and six of seven.
“A triple from a catcher is a tough one to take”, Robertson said. “(Molina is) a really good hitter.
“I would have liked to have gone deeper, but I feel like I did my job”, he said.
John Danks pitched 6 2/3 innings of five-hit ball for Chicago, extending his scoreless streak to 12 2/3 innings over his last two starts. He allowed three hits and a run with a walk with four strikeouts.
Manager Robin Ventura said Samardzija doesn’t seem phased by the trade rumors. “He was fantastic tonight”. “He was fantastic, command, changed speeds, everything”.
Danks and Lance Lynn were locked in a scoreless duel before Chicago pushed across two runs in the sixth, helped by a miscue for Cardinals shortstop Jhonny Peralta. He got his 29 save. Jose Abreu hit a sharp single to left, scoring Carlos Sanchez, followed by Tyler Saladino who scored on a Melky Cabrera line drive single to center. Lynn then struck out Avisail Garcia and retired LaRoche on a fly ball to the warning track in centre. LaRoche’s career rate is 22.2 percent and he’s coming off an outstanding 2014 campaign when he whiffed in only 18.4 percent of his at-bats. The All-Star was activated from the disabled list on Friday after being sidelined by a strained right quadriceps, but he hasn’t been cleared to run full speed yet.
“Plain and simple, do whatever I can to get the runners in, ” Brantley said. “We’ll see what the doctors are saying.”…
The White Sox open a four-game series at Cleveland on Thursday and at Boston on Monday, giving them consecutive teams with losing records to play against for the first time in two months.
Jordan Danks is now on the 40-man roster of the Philadelphia Phillies, while older brother John is 5-8 with a 4.98 ERA with the Chicago White Sox.
LaRoche, 35, is as chill and calm as any, and the last thing he seems concerned about is the July 31 trade deadline.
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While Jeff Samardzija has been inconsistent this season, putting up a 6-5 record with a 4.08 ERA and 1.23 WHIP, he has shown he can pitch spectacularly in the big leagues, which is intriguing to New York.
