Chicago White Sox at Arizona Diamondbacks

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Chicago White Sox

19-53, 7-30 Away

Final
9 - 2

Arizona Diamondbacks

34-37, 18-18 Home

White Sox score tying run after intentional balk, beat Diamondbacks 9-2 for rare road win

The balk came in the second inning, when Chicago's Martín Maldonado picked up Thyago Vieira's pitches from second base and relayed them to Andrew Vaughn.

“It was a forced balk,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. “Maldonado is very crafty and he was giving signs. He was 9 for 9 — he didn't miss one. We picked up what his habit was, giving the sign to the hitter, and we just felt like it was too risky.”

Erick Fedde (5-1) was sharp, allowing two runs on eight hits in six innings with six strikeouts.

Chicago had plenty of pop a night after managing one run in the series opener, finishing with with four homers and 12 hits.

Andrew Vaughn homered and had three RBI, Korey Lee hit a two-run shot and Paul DeJong had a solo homer in the White Sox's seventh win in 31 road games.

“On the offensive side, we're in a good moment right now,” Sosa said through an interpreter. “Like everything, that's contagious and I think that's what's happening right now.”

The Diamondbacks gave them a boost in the third inning on the intentional balk by Vieira (0-1).

With Maldonado on second, the Arizona right-hander threw several pitches in the dirt, Lovullo to make a mound visit. Lovullo told Vieira to drop the ball and he did before the next pitch, moving the slow-running Maldonado to third on the balk. Vaughn followed with single, easily scoring Maldonado.

DeJong put the White Sox hit a homer to the pool deck in right-center the following inning and Vaughn made it 4-1 with a two-run homer in the fifth. Sosa hit his second homer of the season the seventh inning and Lee hit his sixth in the ninth.

“I definitely didn't want the hitter to know what was coming and possibly put up a crooked number,” said Lovullo, who was ejected by plate umpire Nick Mahrley in the eighth inning for arguing about several borderline strike calls against the Diamondbacks. “He (Vieria) just made a mistake up over the plate with a fastball.”

Fedde left with the lead in his previous four starts, yet received a no-decision in each.

The Diamondbacks jumped on the Chicago right-hander out of the gate when Ketel Marte followed Corbin Carroll's leadoff double with run-scoring single. Fedde worked out of a one-out, bases-loaded jam in the second inning and gave up a sacrifice fly to Joc Pederson in the fifth.

“The offense gave me some leeway and I was able to get out of some jams,” Fedde said.

TRAINER'S TABLE

Diamondbacks: OF Alek Thomas is expected to join Triple-A Reno on a rehab assignment next week as he works his way back from a hamstring injury.

White Sox RHP Drew Thorpe (0-0, 1.80 ERA) will face Diamondbacks LHP Jordan Montgomery (4-4, 6.58) in Sunday's series finale.

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Matchup Prediction

Diamondbacks: 63.7%

White Sox: 36.3%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Carroll grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Perdomo singled to right, Suárez to second.
	9th Inning	Moreno lined out to center.
	9th Inning	Suárez singled to center.
	9th Inning	McCarthy struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Banks relieved Wilson

Statistics

CHW		ARI
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
12	Ground Balls	14
9	Strikeouts	9
9	Runs Batted In	2
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
12	Hits	10
0	Stolen Bases	0
5	Walks	0
0	Catcher Interference	0
9	Runs	2
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
38	At Bats	36
4	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	19
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	3
18	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
167	Pitches	157
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
26	Total Bases	13
44	Plate Appearances	37
648.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
6	Extra Base Hits	3
9.4	Runs Created	3.6
.316	Batting Average	.278
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.684	Slugging Percentage	.361
.500	Secondary Average	.083
.395	On Base Percentage	.270
1.080	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.631
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.0
9.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.6
64.0	Batter Rating	24.0
9.5	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.80	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.24
.368	Isolated Power	.083
0.56	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.00
.114	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.000
.184	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.194
18.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.8	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
107.8	MLB Rating	77.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0