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White Sox Lose; Cardinals, Cubs Postponed

>>A's Down White Sox
 
Daniel Mengden carried a shutout into the ninth inning in his best start of the season and the Oakland Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox 8-1 before another sparse crowd at the Coliseum on Monday night.
 
Matt Olson homered, Jed Lowrie drove in three runs and Stephen Piscotty had two hits and an RBI for the A's.
 
Oakland has won consecutive games for the first time this season.
 
It was Chicago's first game since it won in Minnesota on Thursday. The final three games of that series were postponed by snow.
 
Mengden (2-2) had allowed three earned runs or more in each of his first three starts but was dominant against Chicago. The right-hander struck out six, walked one and retired 18 of 20 before leaving after giving up Jose Abreu's leadoff home run in the ninth. That was just Chicago's sixth hit.
 
Olson homered on starter Reynaldo Lopez's first pitch off the fourth. That ended a career-high tying 0-for-12 slump for the A's first baseman.
 
Lowrie had an RBI groundout in the seventh and a two-run single in the eighth.
 
The A's also made a pair of defensive gems.
 
Center fielder Mark Canha made a diving catch on Abreu's sinking liner to end the third. An inning earlier, the A's turned a 5-3-6 double play.
 
The game was played before an announced crowd of 7,479, the second smallest of the season at the Coliseum. It was the fourth time this year the A's have attracted fewer than 10,000, although it didn't help that the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors were playing Game 2 of their Western Conference playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs at the same time next door at Oracle Arena.
 
Tuesday's game should attract a much larger crowd because tickets are free. Vouchers were previously given out online, and no walkups are available.
 
Lopez (0-2) yielded four hits and two runs over six innings.
 
The White Sox committed four errors and have lost seven of eight.
 
Miguel Gonzalez (0-2, 8.68 ERA) starts Tuesday night seeking his first win in seven career starts against Oakland.
 
Cahill (0-0, 0.00 ERA) is expected to be called up from Triple-A Nashville to make his season debut.
 
>>Cubs, Cards Series Opener Postponed
 
The series opener between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals has been postponed because of poor weather.
With light snow falling and the temperature around 30 degrees, Monday night's game was postponed about six hours before the scheduled first pitch. It will be made up as part of a split doubleheader on July 21.
 
It was not immediately clear how the postponement will affect the teams' rotations. Adam Wainwright had been scheduled to start for St. Louis, with Tyler Chatwood pitching for Chicago on Monday.
 
The postponement was the third on the Cubs' first homestand of the season - and second in as many days. Sunday's series finale against Atlanta got pushed back to May 14 because of rain.
 
There were 21 postponements in the majors through Sunday.
 
>>Twins, White Sox Set Make Up Dates
 
The Minnesota Twins have rescheduled three games with the Chicago White Sox that were postponed by wintry weather.
 
The Twins set a straight doubleheader for June 5, when the White Sox return to Minnesota for what will now be a four-game series. The original game will start a half-hour after the makeup game is finished.
The White Sox will make a one-game stop on Aug. 20, what was an off day for both clubs. The Twins begin a two-game series in Chicago the following day.
 
Then the two teams will play a split doubleheader on Sept. 28, setting up a four-game series to finish the regular season.
 
The Twins beat the White Sox on Thursday, before the storm arrived and dropped 15 inches of snow on Minneapolis over the weekend.

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