The A’s got something Monday night they’d been sorely lacking: a long and effective outing from a starting pitcher not named Sean Manaea.
Daniel Mengden took a shutout into the ninth inning as the A’s beat the Chicago White Sox 8-1 at the Coliseum. On the heels of Manaea’s gem in Seattle on Sunday, it gave the A’s consecutive wins for the first time this season.
Mengden allowed six hits in eight-plus innings and held a Chicago lineup that had been idle since Thursday (because of weather) silent until Jose Abreu’s leadoff home run in the ninth.