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Yasmani Grandal hit a two-run double and the Chicago White Sox stopped a five-game losing streak, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 Wednesday.

 

Leury Garcia added a home run as the AL Central leaders ended their longest skid of the season.

Chicago starter Dylan Cease (6-3) bounced back from a rough outing to work 5 2/3 innings, allowing one earned run while striking out seven.

 

Cease was tagged for seven runs in 3 1/3 innings in his previous start at Houston. That game was the first of Chicago's slump, and Cease was happy to be one to help end it on Wednesday.

 

Liam Hendricks pitched a perfect ninth for his 19th save of the season.

 

Grandal's tiebreaking hit came with two outs in the fifth inning and finished Pirates starter Chase De Jong (0-2).

 

Garcia led off the second with his first home run of the season, the first-pitch drive to right center.

Pittsburgh scored twice in the second after Cease made two errors in attempting to field a bunt by De Jong with Michael Perez on first base. Cease first dropped the ball and then threw it away, giving the Pirates runners at second and third.

 

Chicago outfielder Luis Gonzalez got his first big league hit with a second-inning double and scored on Tim Anderson's double.

 

Gonzalez made his first start as the White Sox navigate the absence of outfielder Adam Engel, who was placed on the injured list on Tuesday.

 

Adam Frazier had an RBI grounder and Ke'Bryan Hayes singled home a run that made it 2-all.

 

Frazier doubled and scored on a single by Hayes in the seventh.

 

Hayes, who had gone 2 for 13 over the first four games of the Pittsburgh homestand, finished 2 for 4 with a walk and two RBIs.

 

Carlos Rodon (6-20, 1.83 ERA) is scheduled to start a three-game series with the Mariners in Chicago on Friday. Rodon has allowed just one run in each of his three starts in June and has a 1.42 ERA this month.

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