. It was Carpenter's 100th career home run and his first since April 10.With one out, Marcell Ozuna doubled off the right-field wall. Molina then singled to left field to score Ozuna.Bud Norris (1-0) picked up his first win of the season with a perfect ninth.The White Sox wasted a good start by James Shields, who pitched six strong innings after giving up a leadoff home run.Tommy Pham hit a 3-2 fastball off him for a 454-foot home run into the left-field seats. It was his first leadoff homer in his career and the second this season for St. Louis.Shields retired the next 15 batters before giving up a single to Kolten Wong in the sixth. He allowed just two hits. Shields, who has not won since opening day, struck out four and did not walk a batter.The White Sox scored twice in the fourth to take the lead. Trayce Thompson and Adam Engel drew one-out walks. After Shields struck out, Yoan Moncada doubled home both runners. His sinking fly ball got past Ozuna, who was trying for shoestring catch.Michael Wacha pitched five innings in his second career appearance against the White Sox. He walked three and allowed hits.The Cardinals ran themselves out of a scoring chance in the seventh.Against reliever Bruce Rondon, St. Louis had a runner at third with one out. Ozuna hit a hard to grounder to Jose Abreu, who threw home to nail Carpenter trying to score.ROSTER MOVEThe St. Louis sent right-hander reliever Mike Mayers to Triple-A Memphis and called up first baseman Luke Voit, a St. Louis native. The 27-year-old began this season on the disabled list with an oblique strain. He was batting .205 in 12 games at Memphis following his return. As a rookie in 2017, Voit batted .246 with four home runs and 18 RBIs. Mayers is 0-0 with a 1.35 ERA and one save in four relief appearances covering 6 2/3 innings this season.MILESTONESTuesday's game was manager Mike Matheny's 1,000th with the Cardinals. He is just the fourth manager to pilot the club in 1,000 or more regular-season games. Matheny succeeded Hall of Famer Tony LaRussa as skipper in 2012. In his first four seasons, the Cardinals reached postseason play. St. Louis reached the World Series in 2013. ... Catcher Yadier Molina tied Hall of Famer Johnny Bench at 1,742 games for 16th in career games caught.TRAINER'S ROOMWhite Sox: RHP Danny Farquhar continues to show progress after his April 21 surgery for a brain aneurysm. He has taken a few short walks with his wife, Lexie. He is listed in neurologically stable condition ICU for next few weeks.Cardinals: RHP Adam Wainwright (elbow inflammation) played catch before the game. ''If all goes well and he feels good, he is scheduled to throw a bullpen tomorrow,'' said John Mozeliak, the team president. ''We just have to be smart about this.'' UP NEXTWhite Sox: Lucas Giolito (1-3, 7.71 ERA) will be making his first career appearance against St. Louis. He snapped a three-game losing streak in his last start against Kansas City.Cardinals: Carlos Martinez (2-1, 1.43 ERA) will be facing the White Sox for the first time. He has had consecutive no-decisions in his last two starts. The Cardinals have won each of his last five starts since opening day.---More baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball)
Cardinals try to get back on track vs. White Sox 1h ago• 2 min read After a lost weekend in Pittsburgh, the St. Louis Cardinals will try to get back on track at Busch Stadium with a week full of games against both of Chicago's big league teams.First on the docket are the White Sox and their 8-18 record, minus-42 run differential and shaky pitching. The two-game series starts Tuesday night when St. Louis right-hander Michael Wacha (4-1, 3.62) matches up with veteran James Shields (1-3, 6.14 ERA).The Cardinals (15-12) fell from first place in the National League Central into a tie for third with Milwaukee after being swept by the Pirates. Following a come-from-ahead 6-5, 11-inning loss Friday night in which it blew a 5-0 lead, St. Louis dropped 6-2 and 5-0 decisions in the last two games of the weekend series.Aside from starting pitching, little went right for the Cardinals in Pittsburgh. Their offense managed all of two runs in the last 24 innings of the series, the defense made four errors in the series and the bullpen threw high-octane gasoline on fires in the series' first two games.In sharp contrast, the Pirates' bullpen authored 11 2/3 scoreless innings, including 6 1/3 on Friday night that allowed them a chance to erase St. Louis' five-run advantage."When their starter is gone, that usually means good results are going to happen," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "That's what our offense is going to do. We grind at-bats. Long at-bats create more opportunities." The Cardinals will hope for those opportunities against Shields, whose only win this year came on Opening Day in Kansas City when Chicago erased a 4-0 first-inning deficit by putting up 14 runs. Shields is coming off a 4-3 loss Wednesday to Seattle in which he permitted six hits and four runs over six innings.Shields has faced St. Louis just twice in his career, both while pitching for Kansas City, and is 0-1 with an 8.74 ERA, allowing 11 earned runs in 11 1/3 innings. Kolten Wong touched him for his first career grand slam four years ago.Wacha will make his second career appearance against the White Sox, having beaten them in July 2015 despite permitting five runs over five innings. But Wacha has been considerably stingier since eating a loss on March 31 at the New York Mets, winning four straight starts.He avenged the defeat to New York on Wednesday night with six good innings, fanning a season-high eight and allowing just one run off five hits and a walk in a 9-1 romp. Wacha has won all three of his starts at home this year, yielding only four runs in 17 2/3 innings.Chicago is hopeful the eastern end of Missouri is as friendly as the western end has been. Five of the White Sox's eight wins have occurred in Kansas City, where they won the first three in a five-game weekend series before dropping the final two games, including a 5-4 decision on Sunday."When you are going through a rebuild, you have to understand there will be some struggles," shortstop Tim Anderson told mlb.com after Sunday's loss. "But we're a new generation. We just have to continue to play hard and have fun."
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