White Sox beat A's 6-3; Oakland drops fourth straight game

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Tony La Russa has seen his share of celebrations during all his decades in baseball. What the Chicago White Sox gave Jimmy Lambert for his first major league win ranked right up there.

“I'll just say the beer was very cold,” said the 26-year-old right-hander, who had Tommy John surgery in 2019 and “didn’t know if I’d ever get a chance to win a major league game.”

Gavin Sheets hit a go-ahead RBI single in the fifth to back Lambert, Cesar Hernandez added a two-run single in the same inning, and the AL Central-leading White Sox beat the stumbling Oakland Athletics 6-3 on Tuesday night.

Lambert (1-1) allowed three hits over five solid innings to win in his third career start and six appearance as Chicago matched its season-high of 22 games above .500 (80-58).

“He’s got one of the most exaggerated beer showers I’ve seen in a long time,” La Russa said. “The win was worth it I’m sure, but he’s paying a big price right now.”

Both managers and the training staffs came out when Chicago's Leury García stole a base in the eighth and made a dive under leaping second baseman Tony Kemp, who landed hard on the ground and was nursing a sore left wrist later.

Brian Goodwin added a two-run single in the eighth for Chicago, which lost two of three at Kansas City over the weekend, including getting shut out 6-0 in Sunday’s series finale.

This marked La Russa’s return to the place he managed the A’s from 1986-95, winning a championship in the 1989 earthquake World Series and losing the World Series in 1988 and ’90.

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