White Sox snap three-game losing streak
Lance Lynn had another strong start, Andrew Vaughn hit another big home run — this time in a winning cause — and Tim Anderson emerged from a 2-for-24 slump to deliver some insurance in a 5-1 White Sox victory over the visiting Cardinals Monday night.
Bouncing back from a three-game weekend sweep against the Yankees, the Sox (27-19) got seven innings of one-run ball from Lynn (4-1, 1.51), who took a no-hitter into the sixth inning against his former team. Paul Goldschmidt’s low liner that handcuffed a drawn-in Anderson at shortstop in the sixth was the Cardinals’ first hit and it scored Tommy Edman from third with the first run.
But Vaughn, who hit a tying homer against the Yankees’ Aroldis Chapman in the ninth inning of a 5-4 loss Sunday, homered into the left field bullpen with two outs against Cards lefty Kwang Hyun Kim, scoring Yermin Mercedes ahead of him in the bottom of the sixth for a 2-1 Sox lead.
Anderson doubled against reliever Daniel Ponce de Leon, scoring two runs, to cap a four-run inning. Yermin Mercedes (2-for-3) had a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
Lynn allowed three hits and three walks and struck out four. Michael Kopech struck out three in two scoreless innings of relief.
Good, but not there yet
The Sox bullpen entered Monday with a 3.03 ERA, the fifth best number in the major leagues, but were at 4.84 ERA over their last eight games. Left-hander Aaron Bummer has seen enough good things over the last few weeks, though, to trust it will be better.
“We’re in a better spot than we were a month ago and I hope we’re in a better spot a month from now than we are today Bummer said. “Everyone is coming into their own, settling into the roles they’ll be used in. I still don’t think we’ve done as great a job as we need to and are capable of but we’re trending in the right direction.”
Joe West ties record
Joe West tied Hall of Famer Bill Klem’s record for the most regular-season games by an umpire, working at first base, and will break it Tuesday when he works his 5,376th game.
Klem, who retired in 1941, umpired in the National League for 37 years. He was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1953.
West, 68, umpired his first game in 1976 when he was 23. He worked 23 years in the National League before covering both leagues beginning in 2002. This will be his last season.
In West’s honor, the Oak Ridge Boys will sing the National Anthem Tuesday. West will umpire second base Tuesday.
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