Chase Meidroth’s RBI double lifted the Chicago White Sox to a 1-0 win over the visiting Athletics on Saturday.
Meidroth was 2-for-3 and Luisangel Acuna had two hits, while five Chicago pitchers combined for a four-hit shutout.
Erick Fedde (5-6) earned the win after allowing two hits and no runs, while walking one and striking out three over four innings. Grant Taylor walked one and struck out two over 1 2/3 innings to earn his fourth save of the season.
Joshua Kuroda-Grauer was 2-for-4 with a double and Jacob Wilson was 2-for-4 with a triple for the A’s.
Athletics starter Gage Jump (3-4) allowed one run on five hits, walked two and fanned seven in 5 2/3 innings.
The White Sox took a 1-0 lead in the sixth. Colson Montgomery coaxed a two-out walk and scored on Meidroth’s double. Luis Medina relieved Jump and his first pitch hit Braden Montgomery, but he struck out Acuna on three pitches to end the inning.
Earlier, with one out in the second, Kuroda-Grauer singled to center and Lawrence Butler drew a walk. Carlos Cortes flied out to right, but Braden Montgomery’s throw sailed wide of second, allowing both runners to advance to second and third.
Randal Grichuk’s diving grab of Jeff McNeil’s popup into shallow left got Chicago out of the jam.
In the third, Grichuk’s one-out double skipped past a diving Kuroda-Grauer at third and rattled around in the left field corner. Munetaka Murakami walked, but Miguel Vargas grounded into an inning-ending 5-4-3 double play.
Kuroda-Grauer lined a leadoff double to left field to open the seventh, and Sean Newcomb relieved Fedde. After Newcomb walked Lawrence Butler, pinch hitters Colby Thomas and Alika Williams each popped out before Henry Bolte struck out to end the threat.
Wilson led off the eighth with a triple. After Tyler Soderstrom grounded out, Newcomb gave way to Taylor, who ended the inning with a strikeout and a groundout.
After Bryan Hudson pitched a 1-2-3 first, Chris Murphy tossed a scoreless second before Fedde entered and settled into a groove, retiring the first 10 batters he faced.
–Field Level Media
