Tonight at 8:15 p.m. ET, the Chicago White Sox (32-42) and St. Louis Cardinals (51-24) open up a brief two-game series live from Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
Chicago enters the final leg of a nine-game road trip having lost two straight matches and three of four while St. Louis resumes a nine-game homestand having won six consecutive contests.
The White Sox dropped two games to the Detroit Tigers over the weekend and had one of those scheduled head-to-heads wiped out due to rain while the Cardinals swept away the Chicago Cubs to kick off their home swing.
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Chris Sale (6-4, 3.02 ERA) toes the rubber for Chicago while St. Louis counters with Lance Lynn and he is 5-4 with a 2.84 ERA thus far this season.
Sale is coming off an outing where he lost to the Minnesota Twins, but he fanned 10 batters to notch the seventh straight start with double-digit strikeouts. He has K'd 103 hitters over his last nine starts.
Lynn returned from the 15-day disabled list last time out and pitched six scoreless innings.
Sale is chasing strikeout history in his 100th-career start as he faces a St. Louis lineup that is paced by third baseman Matt Carpenter and shortstop Jhonny Peralta. Carpenter is tied for second in the National League with 21 doubles and is hitting .279 with eight homers and 37 RBI.
Peralta leads the Cardinals with a .303 batting average, 11 long-balls and 40 RBI.
The White Sox counter with the lineup that is paced by first baseman Jose Abreu, who leads the club in batting average (.291), homers (13) and RBI (41).
St. Louis, which has lost at home just once in June, enters play with the MLB's best record and owns a nine-game lead over the second-place Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Central. Chicago, meanwhile, is in last place in the American League Central, 7.5 games behind the division-leading Kansas City Royals.
The White Sox and Cardinals open up a three-game set live tonight from Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
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