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10 June 2011

CHICAGO--A strike by its eleventh consecutive losses, showed the Oakland Athletics interim Manager Bob Melvin still there is the desire to win.

Scott Sizemore hit a go-ahead three run double the Oakland Athletics past the Chicago White Sox to collect 7-5 Friday night.

"Until you get that you are last out and the last strike, still alive," said Melvin. "During Strip as that just go to the end and this evening, that just was not the case." "This is always a sign that you come out of it."

The A's won their first game under Melvin. Oakland the majors first managerial change 2011 by firing of Bob Geren after four seasons Thursday and replaced him with Melvin made.

"You saw all but on the railing?" Melvin asked. "they did that on their own." I noticed at the beginning of the inning, all on the back of the Bank was on the top rail came up because everyone had a good feeling about the way that we played tonight. "I know it was on a pitch and we were a pitch way of losing, but everyone was their team-mate promote."

Trailing 5-3 in the ninth, White Sox Sergio Santos (2-3) closer retired the first two batters and Josh Willingham in a 0-2 count had before him on foot. Hideki Matsui followed with a RBI single White Sox cut lead to a run. Santos then went Dareikos Barton and hit Kurt Suzuki with a ball, breaking, to load the bases. Sizemore share then the gap left center of the Athletics powodka give 7-5.

"Santos throws hard, so you're fastball not ready for it, you will blow away", Sizemore said, in just his third game of a played since acquired from Detroit on 27 May.

"It was a great feeling that team help a victory," added Sizemore. "Felt really good to wear."

Santos allowed three runs Wednesday loss to the Mariners.

"This a hurt, I", honest with you, said White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén. "[Santos] it only lost." "He tried too aggressive."

Santos has allowed runs in only three of his 25 appearances this year, but for at least three runs in all three instances marked was.

"It's baseball, I wish, every time I could get the job but this is not possible, so I have tomorrow, when they approached me, call I is ready, each situation are ready to go out there and my work," he said.

Grant Balfour (4-1) pitched a scoreless eighth for the victory and set up Andrew Bailey to save a perfect ninth for his first of the season.

A two run Homer beat Paul Konerko and a.j Pierzynski had three hits for the White Sox, winning not to the ground in the Central AL Cleveland and Detroit to lose both.

The A's had to lose 13 goals to avoid 11 straight for the first time since a slide 12-game 19-30 April 1994. Oakland came into play eyelash. 219 (75 for 343) during the 10-game losing streak.

Cliff Pennington and Sizemore led the A's with three goals.

White Sox Starter Edwin Jackson six innings pitched and allowed two runs on eight hits.

Graham Godfrey debuted with Brett Anderson in the major league pushed by elbow pain. Godfrey five runs innings allowed on nine hits over 4 1/3.

"I thought he was pretty good," said Melvin. "Walks you will kill Zwei-Out." She saw him from the species a little, then return. "

Godfrey was 7-1 with a 2.50 era for Sacramento. The 26-year old right-hander started in a game for double-A Midland was promoted to the Sacramento.

"In the middle of my trip, I was hitters attack and always." This is what me successfully made, "said Godfrey." "I have lot of positive things from the work in any case."

Trailing 1-0 in the first inning, Carlos Quentin moved a zwei-Out walk, then Konerko followed by home run with its 16 and second in as many days, to put Chicago ahead. It was Konerko's ninth straight game with an extra base hit, a franchise record.

The White Sox left the bases after Godfrey from Gordon Beckham was loaded.

Konerko is 20-42 has six double rooms, six home runs and 14 RBI during his 11-game hitting streak, raising his average from. 287 to. 321. He did play nine six home runs in his last hit.

Jemile weeks the third paid with triple. Center fielder Alex Rios had a bad read on the ball and stood first in the wrong direction as the bullet through the head went. Pennington's infield single scored, to tie the score at two weeks later.

The White Sox again the lead for Jackson in the fifth. Double-click led off Alexei Ramirez, then Quentin followed a slow bouncer to third baseman Sizemore. Sizemore made an off balance throw to first by Barton. Ramirez landed on error throw scored.

Godfrey was chased after giving up a single to Pierzynski. Quentin pushed in third on the hit to the right and Pierzynski was second on the throw. Quentin landed scored on Rios' Groundout and Adam Dunn drove in Pierzynski on a single, the Sox powodka 5-2 type white.

Out in the first Pennington double left field line. One out later Pennington scored Willingham's single.

Coco Crisp had to this Conor Jackson Groundout in the seventh.

Notes

Konerko the consecutive extra base shared previously with Al Simmons, hit streak it 1935 set. Rios and Dunn drove in a run in the same game of this season for the third time this season. Quentin extended his hitting streak 12 games. A move Melvin has called four hits in eight at bats in the hole No. 2 as Melvin moved beat him from the ninth, "an easy decision." Pennington

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