Soderstrom hits major league-leading 9th homer as A's beat White Sox 8-0

CHICAGO (AP) — Tyler Soderstrom hit his major league-leading ninth home run, helping the Athletics to an 8-0 win Thursday and a three-game sweep of the struggling Chicago White Sox.

Lawrence Butler, JJ Bleday and Brent Rooker also homered for the A's, who have won four of five and improved to 9-10. Soderstrom hit a solo homer in the seventh for a 5-0 lead and is batting .315 with 18 RBIs.

Chicago dropped to a major league-worst 4-14, losing its fourth straight game and for the 12th time in 14. The White Sox lost a post-1900 record 121 games last year.

Rooker had three hits, Max Schuemann two triples and Jacob Wilson two doubles.

JP Sears (2-2) allowed three hits and Noah Murdock, T.J. McFarland and Jason Alexander finished a four-hitter, the A's second shutout this season.

Davis Martin (1-2) gave up four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.

Lawrence Butler and Wilson led off the game with consecutive doubles. Butler added a solo homer in the second and JJ Bleday a two-run homer in the sixth. Wilson had an RBI double and Rooker a two-run homer in the ninth.

Edward Quero, a 22-year-old catcher, was 0 for 3 in his major league debut for Chicago. Andrew Benintendi went 0 for 2 in his first game since April 6 after recording from a left adductor strain.

Chicago loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth against Murdock. McFarland retired pinch-hitter Joshua Palacios on a pop fly.

Sodestrom's nine homers tied for second-most in franchise history through 19 games with Reggie Jackson (1974) and Mark McGwire (1992), one behind Bob Cerv (1958) and Khris Davis (2019).

Athletics: RHP J.T. Ginn (1-0, 1.31) starts Friday at Milwaukee and RHP Freddy Peralta (1-1, 2.31).

White Sox: LHP Martín Pérez (1-0, 1.59) will pitch Friday at Boston.

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Chicago White Sox catcher Edgar Quero prepares for a baseball game against the Athletics, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Athletics starting pitcher JP Sears (38) throws against the Chicago White Sox during the first inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Athletics' Lawrence Butler (4) scores on a double from Jacob Wilson during the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Athletics' Tyler Soderstrom (21) slaps hands with Brent Rooker, left, after hitting a home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Athletics' Tyler Soderstrom, right, hits a home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.

A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said on Telegram.

Three other people were wounded and more than 10 apartment buildings, private houses and a high school were damaged, he said, adding that air defenses shot down 17 drones over Voronezh. The city is home to just over 1 million people and lies some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

For only the second time in the nearly four-year war, Russia used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv and NATO.

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further aggression by Moscow if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday in his nightly address that Ukrainian negotiators “continue to communicate with the American side.”

Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov was in contact with U.S. partners Saturday, he said.

Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia targeted Ukraine with 154 drones overnight into Sunday and 125 were shot down.

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This photo provided by the Ukrainian Security Service on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, shows a fragment believed to be a part of a Russian Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile that hit the Lviv region. (Ukrainian Security Service via AP)

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)