Oakland Athletics vs Chicago White Sox Match Player Stats On Jul 30, 2022

Adam Engel scored on a Zach Jackson wild pitch with one out in the ninth inning to record the winning run and Gavin Sheets drilled a two-run homer to lift the host Chicago White Sox to a 3-2 victory against the Oakland Athletics on Saturday night.

Sheets, who tied the game in the seventh, doubled to lead off the ninth. Josh Harrison followed with a sacrifice bunt to advance Engel, pinch running for Sheets, to third base.

Chicago snapped a two-game skid while ending Oakland's season-best four-game winning streak.

Sean Murphy and Seth Brown homered, and Paul Blackburn closed a rough July with five shutout innings to keep the A's afloat.

Murphy and Brown powered up to provide Oakland with its 34th and 35th homers of the month. Brown has now gone deep three times in the series.

Scuffling through July at 0-3 with a 9.15 ERA in four starts entering Saturday, Blackburn scattered five hits while striking out four.

After allowing a leadoff single to Tim Anderson to start the game, Blackburn retired the next 10 batters before an AJ Pollock single with one out in the fourth.

Chicago righty Johnny Cueto held Oakland in check apart from the two home runs. Cueto spaced two runs and six hits with one walk and two strikeouts in seven innings. The veteran has worked at least six innings in six straight starts.

Sheets connected against Austin Pruitt in the seventh, hitting the first pitch he saw over the right-center field wall after Pruitt had hit Andrew Vaughn with a 3-2 delivery.

Eloy Jimenez, Anderson and Sheets had two hits each for Chicago. Brown had two hits for the A's.

Liam Hendriks (2-3) struck out two in the ninth to earn the victory. Jackson fell to 2-3, allowing one run and a hit in one-third of an inning.

Anderson was suspended for three games and fined an undisclosed amount for making contact with an umpire before being ejected in the seventh inning of Friday's loss to Oakland. Anderson elected to appeal, allowing him to still play for the time being.

--Field Level Media