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Daniel Mengden scattered six hits over eight-plus innings Monday, and Matt Olson hit a home run as the Oakland A's earned an 8-1 victory in the opener of a three-game series against the visiting Chicago White Sox. Mengden (2-2), in his 25th career start over three years with the A's, won at the Oakland Coliseum for the first time. The right-hander set down 11 consecutive White Sox hitters at one point. Continue to Article

April 17, 2018 1:20:am EST

Despite three straight days without baseball, the White Sox did not come back from their long weekend looking their freshest. It was a real ugly night in Oakland as the White Sox dropped the series opener with the A's by an 8-1 score. With a non-existent offense and a mistake-prone defense, anyone not named Reynaldo Lopez had a bad all-around evening at the Coliseum. Continue to Article

April 17, 2018 1:10:am EST

While others might dread the beginning of the work week, Mallex Smith is beginning to love Mondays. Smith had four hits for the second time in eight days and Blake Snell struck out nine Monday night to help the Tampa Bay Rays stop a four-game losing streak with an 8-4 win over the Texas Rangers. Exactly a week earlier, Smith got four hits in Chicago against the White Sox. Continue to Article

April 17, 2018 12:46:am EST

The Minnesota Twins finally found a way to beat the elements and get back to playing baseball. All it took was a flight to Puerto Rico. The Twins lost four games to weather last week, including the last three games of what was supposed to have been a four-game weekend series with the Chicago White Sox after blizzard dumped nearly a foot of snow on the Twin Cities. Continue to Article

April 16, 2018 11:35:pm EST

Yoan Moncada's high strikeout total has an awful lot of folks in a tizzy. There are plenty of reasons why no one should freak out over this quite yet: It's still very early in the season (and Moncada's career), it's part of Moncada's still-ongoing development and it's not exactly keeping the White Sox from an imminent pennant race. Konerko went on to become one of the greatest White Sox hitters ever, but he didn't start out that way. Continue to Article

April 16, 2018 9:28:pm EST