CHICAGO (AP) — Chris Sale matched a career high with 15 strikeouts while pitching seven scoreless innings, and the Chicago White Sox snapped the crosstown Cubs’ nine-game win streak with a 3-1 win on Sunday.
Jose Abreu, Melky Cabrera and Alexei Ramirez homered for the White Sox, who had lost 10 of 15. Abreu, Cabrera and Carlos Sanchez had two hits apiece.
Sale (11-7) allowed one hit — Dexter Fowler’s one-out single in the sixth — and walked two. It was his 11th double-digit strikeout game of the year and ran his total for the season to a major league-best 208.
The Cubs were trying for their first double-digit win streak since they won 12 in a row in 2001. But Dan Haren (8-8) allowed each of the three homers in his 4 2-3 innings, and the Cubs struck out 18 times in all.
The Cubs loaded the bases in the sixth, but Sale struck out Jorge Soler looking to end the inning.
David Robertson allowed Jorge Soler’s two-out homer in the ninth before finishing for his 24th save in 30 chances. Addison Russell reached on an infield hit to third after a replay challenge overturned the call on the field, but Starlin Castro grounded out to end the game.
Abreu hit his 22nd homer with one out in the third. Ramirez connected in the fourth, and Cabrera added his eighth homer in the fifth on a hot day in Chicago.
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