Chicago White Sox Tristan Peters (right) goes in for the slide against the Sacramento A’s third baseman Joshua Kuroda-Grauer (center) in the bottom of the seventh inning at Rate Field in Chicago on Fri Jul 10, 2026 (AP News photo)

By Mauricio Segura

For four innings, the Sacramento Athletics and Chicago White Sox traded zeroes in a tight pitching contest. Then Chicago found every gap in the field, scoring 14 runs over its final four turns at bat and handing the Athletics a 14-1 loss.

Jacob Lopez opened for the A’s and retired five of the six hitters he faced. Aaron Civale replaced him with two outs in the second and struck out Chase Meidroth to complete the inning. Civale then worked through the third and fourth without allowing a run, giving Sacramento’s offense time to solve White Sox starter Sean Burke.

That solution never developed.

Burke retired the first 12 Athletics hitters before Jacob Wilson singled to right in the fifth. The chance disappeared one batter later when Joey Meneses grounded into a double play. Burke continued to control the Green and Gold, mixing strikeouts with routine contact and allowing only one run before leaving after seven innings.

Chicago broke the scoreless tie in the fifth, beginning with Meidroth’s double to left. Andrew Benintendi followed with an RBI double, and Kyle Teel drew a walk before Tristan Peters singled home Benintendi. Sam Antonacci added an RBI single that scored Teel and moved Peters to third.

Elvis Alvarado replaced Civale with Chicago already holding a 3-0 lead. After a replay challenge turned Munetaka Murakami’s plate appearance into a strikeout, Miguel Vargas lifted a sacrifice fly that scored Peters and completed the four-run inning.

The Athletics threatened in the sixth when Joshua Kuroda-Grauer singled and Henry Bolte was hit by a pitch. Jeff McNeil grounded into a double play, however, and Lawrence Butler struck out to leave Kuroda-Grauer at third.

Tyler Soderstrom gave the A’s their only run in the seventh, driving a solo home run over the right-field wall. Soderstrom, who had recently returned from the injured list, supplied Sacramento’s only extra-base hit. Wilson added his second single of the game later in the inning but was stranded when Meneses struck out.

Chicago answered with an eight-run seventh that ended any remaining doubt. Teel drew his second walk, and Peters followed with a two-run homer to right-center. Antonacci walked and scored on Murakami’s double before Vargas brought Murakami home with a ground-rule double.

Mason Barnett replaced Justin Sterner, but the White Sox kept moving. Braden Montgomery singled, Meidroth walked and Benintendi cleared the bases with a three-run double. Peters then tripled home Benintendi, giving him four RBI and leaving the White Sox ahead 12-1.

Peters finished 3-for-4 with a double, triple, home run, two runs and four RBI, missing only a single from becoming the first White Sox player to hit for the cycle since José Abreu in 2017. Benintendi also drove in four runs and collected three doubles. Vargas recorded a double, ground-rule double, sacrifice fly and solo homer while scoring three times and driving in three.

The final two runs crossed in the eighth against position player Carlos Cortes. Vargas opened the scoring with his home run. Colson Montgomery then singled, advanced to second on Butler’s fielding error and scored on Meidroth’s single.

Wilson was the only Athletic with multiple hits, finishing 2-for-3 before Alika Williams replaced him defensively. Kuroda-Grauer added another hit during an impressive beginning to his major league career. He has recorded 16 hits through his first ten games, matching Mitchell Page’s franchise mark for the most over that span.

The defeat extended the Athletics’ season-high losing streak to seven games and dropped them to 41-53. Chicago improved to 48-45 behind Burke, who earned his sixth victory after allowing one run on four hits over seven innings. Civale took the loss after surrendering four runs in 2⅓ innings.

The Athletics will ask rookie left-hander Gage Jump (3-3, 3.77 ERA, 41 strikeouts) to stop the skid in Game 2 against White Sox right-hander Erick Fedde (4-6, 4.34 ERA, 57 strikeouts), with first pitch scheduled for 11:10 a.m. Pacific.

Costa Rican-born Mauricio Segura has been covering sports in the Bay Area since 2001 for a variety of magazines and newspapers, as well as his own publication, Golden Bay Times.

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