Tyler Suderstrom met two homers and drove in a career high six runs and Shea Langeliers also hammered, doubled and drove in two runs to lead the visiting athletics to a 12-3 victory over Chicago White Sox in the opening game in a three-game series on Tuesday evening.
Sderstrom took over Major League Home Run Lead (eight) with the third Multi-Homer game in his career. He also joined the Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson (1974) as the only players in A’s history that had three multi-home games in the first 17 matches in one season.
Suderstrom and Langeliers ended each with three hits, and Lawrence Butler and Brent Rooker also had two hits for athletics, which ended White Sox 13-6.
Jeffrey Springs (3-1) took up the victory for the A’s, which enabled three runs on three hits over five rounds. He went three and knocked out four. Mitch Specce beat the last three rounds and allowed two hits and no runs to get their first career rescue.
Andrew Vaughn met a three-run Homer and Lenyn Sosa had two hits and one run for Chicago, which took his second straight loss. Sean Burke (1-3) allowed five runs on six hits over 3 1/3 rounds. He went two and also knocked out two.
Athletics took a 3-0 lead in the first round when Butler led with a single, advanced to third on a hit-and-run single by Rooker and scored when Sderstrom drilled a three-run homer to the right center.
Chicago band it 3-3 at the bottom of the first on Vaughn’s Homer over the bull in the left field and drove in Miguel Vargas, which had doubled, and Sosa, which had gone.
The Ars regained the lead, 4-3, in the other on a double from the bottom of the midfield wall by Gio Urshela. It got Jacob Wilson, who had single.
Langeliers made it 5-3 when he led the third with his fourth home race, a 409-foot drive that curled around the left field Foul Pole.
The A.s then broke up the game with a four-run sixth-held by Butler’s RBI Dubble and Suderstrom’s second three-run homer at night, a 423-foot blast deep into the pales in the right.
Athletics added another three more runs in the ninth of the Relief Mike Clevinger – highlighted by Langelier’s RBI double from the top of the left field fence.
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