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Promoted Monday from Triple-A Charlotte, rookie Jimmy Lambert
(1-1) threw five one-run innings for his first career win. He
helped the White Sox (80-58) increase their lead over the
second-place Cleveland Indians in the American League Central to
11 games.
The A's (74-64) squandered a chance to move up in the AL
wild-card race, with three of the four teams ahead of them --
the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners -- all
having lost earlier in the evening.
After the teams traded first-inning runs, the White Sox grabbed
the lead for good in the fifth on consecutive singles by Eloy
Jimenez, Yasmani Grandal and Gavin Sheets.
A fourth straight hit by Leury Garcia loaded the bases. One out
later, Hernandez struck a two-run single to right field, giving
Chicago a 4-1 lead.
Goodwin's key hit in the eighth, increasing the advantage to
6-1, came after a two-out double by Yoan Moncada, a walk to Jose
Abreu and a Jake Diekman wild pitch.
Oakland got two back in the bottom of the inning on RBI singles
by Elvis Andrus and Starling Marte, but Craig Kimbrel avoided
further damage before closer Liam Hendriks worked a 1-2-3 ninth
for his 33rd save.
Making his third career start in his sixth career appearance,
Lambert allowed just three hits and two walks. He struck out
two.
A.J. Puk (0-3), who took over in the fifth for starter James
Kaprielian, was charged with the loss. Puk yielded three runs on
five hits while retiring only one batter.
Kaprielian held the White Sox to one run on five hits in four
innings. He walked two and struck out four.
A 15-hit Chicago attack featured three hits apiece by Garcia and
Moncada, plus two each from Hernandez, Sheets and Luis Robert.
Josh Harrison had Oakland's only extra-base hit of the game, a
leadoff double in the first.
--Field Level Media
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