Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Oakland 10, Chi. White Sox 2
When: 4:10 PM ET, Saturday, July 24, 2010
Where: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature: 61°
Umpires: Home - Lazaro Diaz, 1B - John Hirschbeck, 2B - Wally Bell, 3B - Todd Tichenor
Attendance: 17439

Jack Cust hit a pair of solo home runs and reached base five times and the Oakland Athletics beat up Freddy Garcia in a 10-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday.

Daric Barton and Kurt Suzuki each drove in a pair of runs and Cust walked three times and scored three runs as Oakland evened up the three-game series.

The A’s scored five runs in the first two innings to grab a 5-2 lead. They broke things open with back-to-back homers from Suzuki and Cust in the fourth and added a pair of runs in the sixth for the seven-run edge.

Cust went deep for the second time in the eighth, his eighth of the year.

The support was enough for Vin Mazzaro (6-2), who allowed two runs and three hits over six innings to win his fourth straight decision.

Garcia (9-4) was chased with one away in the second inning after giving up five runs and six hits. Tony Pena came on and was charged with four runs in the next 3 2/3 frames.

Kevin Kouzmanoff, Mark Ellis, Gabe Gross and Matt Carson all finished with an RBI apiece in the A’s 13-hit affair.

Ramon Castro lifted a two-run homer in the second for Chicago’s lone damage.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Chi. White Sox   Oakland
Freddy Garcia Player Vin Mazzaro
Loss W/L Win
1.1 IP 6.0
2 Strikeouts 5
6 Hits 3
33.75 ERA 3.00
Hitting
Chi. White Sox   Oakland
Alex Rios Player Kurt Suzuki
1 Hits 3
0 RBI 2
0 HR 1
1 TB 6
.500 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Chi. White Sox 4 1 8 .125 11 7 2 3 0 0
Oakland 13 3 25 .382 25 6 10 9 2 1