Jake Burger hit his 18th home run and the Chicago White Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 8-7 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep. Zach Remillard added a two-run single and Eloy Jiménez had a pair of RBI singles as the White Sox finished their seven-game road trip 3-4.
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Jake Burger hit his 18th home run and the Chicago White Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 8-7 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.
Gavin Sheets was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to force in a third run and Remillard singled home two more to make it 5-0.Oakland got two runs back in the bottom of the third on an RBI single by Tony Kemp and a bases-loaded walk by Seth Brown.Andrew Benintendi had a sacrifice fly in the sixth, followed by Jiménez's second RBI single. Burger homered 442 feet to center in the seventh.
Bleday added another RBI double in the ninth, followed by an RBI single by Brown to bring the A's within 1. But Gregory Santos got Jace Peterson to line out to right, earning his first career save.
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