Tristan Peters finished 4-for-4 with four RBIs while hitting for the cycle and Sean Burke pitched seven sharp innings as the host Chicago White Sox routed the slumping Athletics 14-1 on Friday.
Chicago stopped a three-game losing streak while sending the Athletics to their season-high seventh straight defeat.
Andrew Benintendi, Sam Antonacci and Peters delivered RBI hits in a decisive four-run fifth inning for the White Sox, who remained in a first-place tie with Cleveland atop the American League Central.
Peters bookended an eight-run seventh with a two-run home run and two-run triple to become the first White Sox player to hit for the cycle since Jose Abreu in 2017. He’s the third player to hit for the cycle in the majors this season.
Burke (6-4) benefited from the support to notch his third victory in five starts. He limited the Athletics to one run and four hits in seven innings, with Tyler Soderstrom’s solo home run in the seventh the lone blemish.
Burke set down the first 13 batters of the game before Jacob Wilson singled with one out in the fifth. The right-hander struck out nine without a walk.
Wilson finished with two of his team’s five hits.
Athletics opener Jacob Lopez needed just 12 pitches to retire the first five White Sox before yielding to bulk reliever Aaron Civale, who set down seven of the first nine batters he faced.
Things turned sharply in the White Sox fifth. Chase Meidroth and Benintendi (two hits, four RBIs) opened the inning with consecutive doubles to produce the team’s first run. After a Kyle Teel walk, Peters and Antonacci contributed successive RBI singles to make it 3-0 with no outs.
Civale (5-7) spaced four runs and six hits in 2 1/3 innings with one walk and four strikeouts.
Chicago’s Miguel Vargas belted a solo home run among his three hits and three RBIs. Meidroth added two hits.
White Sox first baseman Munetaka Murakami went 1-for-5 with four strikeouts and an RBI double in his first game since suffering a right hamstring strain on May 29.
The Athletics have lost 15 of 18 overall and six straight on the road.
