Oakland Athletics at Chicago White Sox

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Oakland Athletics

65-85, 29-46 Away

Final
3 - 4

Chicago White Sox

35-115, 20-58 Home

White Sox win back-to-back games for first time in nearly 3 months, beat Athletics 4-3

A day after scoring in the ninth to win 7-6 and stop a 16-game home losing streak, the White Sox took a 3-0 first-inning lead and strung together wins for the first time since three in a row against Atlanta and Colorado from June 27-29. Chicago hadn't won a series since taking two of three from the Rockies.

Chicago is 35-115 with 12 games left and is trying to avoid the post-1900 record of 120 losses by the 1962 expansion New York Mets. The White Sox are 20-58 at home, one shy of the post-1900 mark for home losses shared by the 1939 St. Louis Browns and 2019 Detroit Tigers.

Sean Burke (1-0) allowed two runs and five in five innings. The 24-year-old right-hander, making his first big league start and second appearance, struck out five and walked two.

Ramos and Lenyn Sosa had two hits apiece for the White Sox.

Brent Rooker and Shea Langeliers homered for the Athletics (65-85). JJ Bleday and Nick Allen each had two hits.

JP Sears (11-11) gave up four runs and seven hits in six innings.

Andrew Vaughn's RBI single and Sheets' two-run homer built the early lead. Sheets has 10 homers after going deep in consecutive games.

Rooker hit his 37th homer, a two-run drive in the fifth, but Ramos boosted the lead with his sixth-inning homer.

Pinch hitter Shea Langeliers homered with two outs in the ninth off Fraser Ellard, his 26th. Nick Allen then flied out, giving Ellard his first big league save.

Athletics: RHP Joey Estes (7-7, 4.36 ERA) is set to start Monday’ night's series opener against the Chicago Cubs and LHP Shota Imanaga (13-3, 3.03).

White Sox: RHP Jonathan Cannon (3-10, 4.56) is scheduled to pitch Monday night at the Los Angeles Angels, who star LHP Reid Detmers (4-6, 5.64).

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Matchup Prediction

White Sox: 43.6%

Athletics: 56.4%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Allen flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Langeliers homered to left (378 feet).
	9th Inning	Langeliers hit for McCann
	9th Inning	Schuemann struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Nevin lined out to center.
	9th Inning	Ellard relieved Berroa

Statistics

OAK		CHW
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
8	Ground Balls	7
10	Strikeouts	5
3	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	4
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	32
2	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
4	Doubles	2
16	Fly Balls	20
0	Caught Stealing	0
127	Pitches	108
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
17	Total Bases	16
36	Plate Appearances	34
324.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
6	Extra Base Hits	4
4.5	Runs Created	5.0
.206	Batting Average	.250
.500	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.500	Slugging Percentage	.500
.353	Secondary Average	.344
.250	On Base Percentage	.294
.750	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.794
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
4.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.7
33.0	Batter Rating	35.0
17.0	At Bats Per Home Run	16.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.53	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.18
.294	Isolated Power	.250
0.20	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.40
.056	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.059
.147	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.094
6.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.2
80.3	MLB Rating	84.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0