CHICAGO — One day after the Cardinals watched a starting pitcher leave the game early due to injury and the bullpen blew a pair of leads, they bounced back behind a stellar start from Miles Mikolas, and bullpen pillars Giovanny Gallegos and Jordan Hicks came on in relief and secured a series-tying victory.
The Cardinals scored a run in three separate innings, including the top of the ninth, and their pitching staff made that enough as they registered a 3-0 win over the Chicago White Sox in the second game of a three-game set, the final series before the MLB All-Star break, at Guaranteed Rate Field on Saturday afternoon. That evened the series at a game apiece and set up a rubber match for Sunday afternoon.
The Cardinals (37-52) got seven scoreless innings from Mikolas less than 24 hours after the pitching staff gave up eight runs in a three-inning span.
