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CHICAGO (AP) -- Frank Thomas and the Chicago White Sox took
back-to-back beatings from the St. Louis Cardinals.
|  | | Thomas continues to reassert himself this season, smacking his 28th homer Saturday to power the Sox past the Cardinals. |
Then Saturday night, they adminstered one of their own.
"They kicked our tails the first couple of nights and we needed
this win," Thomas said after matching his career-high with six
RBIs as the White Sox beat St. Louis 15-7 to end their season-long
four-game losing streak.
"I was able to get big hits when I had an opportunity. I wasn't
counting RBIs," Thomas added.
Thomas hit a three-run homer in the first and a bases-loaded
double to spark a nine-run outburst in the seventh as the White Sox
avoided a three-game sweep in the interleague matchup of Central
Division leaders.
The Cardinals suffered another loss when reliever Mike Matthews,
who gave up Thomas' three-run double in the seventh, dislocated a
bone in his pitching hand when he punched the dugout bench in
frustration.
Matthews could miss a minimum of three weeks.
"Stupid," Matthews said.
The third game became a heated one in the fifth inning.
After Fernando Tatis, who homered twice Thursday night, was hit
by a pitch for the third time in the series, Cardinals starter
Darryl Kile drilled Magglio Ordonez in the back in the bottom half
of the inning.
Chicago manager Jerry Manuel went to the plate to check on
Ordonez, who was writhing on the ground, and began screaming at
Kile.
"I was probably yelling at everybody," Manuel said. "It
probably wasn't the right thing to do."
St. Louis manager Tony La Russa, upset that several Cardinals
(five overall) had been hit in the series, then became animated. He
wouldn't comment on the incident after the game.
"Until they start miking umps, what I said stays with the
umpire, unless he wants to repeat it," La Russa said.
Manuel said home plate umpire Alfonzo Marquez warned both
benches after Ordonez was hit. But the umpire did not eject anyone,
even though Jose Valentin and Eduardo Perez were hit later in the
game after the warning.
Tatis hit his 11th homer leading off the ninth against Jesus
Pena, who hit Perez in the left shoulder with two outs in the
inning. Perez jumped up and glared at Pena, but made his way to
first. He scored on Keith McDonald's third homer.
Pena admitted he hit Perez in retaliation for Ordonez.
"They hit Magglio on purpose. Why don't they hit Frank? They
hit the little one. ... They tried to hit him in the head," Pena
said.
"If they hit one of my players, I have to knock one down."
Thomas' 28th homer followed a walk to Ray Durham and single by
Valentin in the first. His double down the third-base line cleared
the bases in the seventh and gave him 83 RBIs, six more than last
season.
Jim Parque (9-2) won his sixth straight decision and hasn't lost
since May 17. He allowed five hits and four runs _ three earned _
in five innings.
Kile (11-6) lasted just 4 2-3 innings, surrendering eight hits
and six runs, and also was involved in the most heated incident of
the night.
Ordonez took first, Paul Konerko singled him to third and Chris
Singleton hit a sacrifice fly to push the lead to 6-4 before Jeff
Abbott walked to finish Kile.
Two innings later the White Sox broke it open.
Abbott hit an RBI single, Herbert Perry had a run-scoring
double, Durham drew a bases-loaded walk, and Valentin was hit by a
pitch for another run before Thomas' double off Matthews. Konerko
then added an RBI double and Singleton a run-scoring grounder.
Eric Davis had a career-high five hits in five at-bats for the
Cardinals with two RBIs. He finished the series 9-for-11.
Game notes
Thomas also had six RBIs against Milwaukee in 1996. ... The
White Sox announced the crowd of 40,681 as their seventh sellout of
the season, although some seats were covered for a post-game
fireworks display. ... Parque entered the game with the most
support of any AL pitcher (8.6 runs per game). ... The 15 runs were
the most the Cards have given up this season. St. Louis won the
first two games of the series, 13-5 and 9-4. ... White Sox RHP Cal
Eldred, who left Friday's game with a sore elbow, still had some
pain Saturday. He's scheduled to throw on the side Monday when it
will be determined if he can make his next start.
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