Designated hitter Mike Piazza had three hits including a triple and home run for the A's, who won their fourth straight game. The White Sox lost their fifth in a row.

Ruddy Lugo pitched a perfect 10th inning to earn the win for Oakland. Lugo (4-0) has allowed just one earned run in nine innings since being recalled from Triple-A Sacramento on Aug. 4.

Suzuki's game-winning hit came after Mark Ellis tripled with one out off reliever Matt Thornton (3-4), the fifth Chicago pitcher. White Sox center fielder Jerry Owens tried to make a sliding catch but the ball bounced off the grass and caromed off Owens' leg and into right, allowing Ellis to take third.

Marco Scutaro was intentionally walked before pinch-hitter Donnie Murphy lined out to second. Suzuki then hit the first pitch he saw from Thornton over the wall in left-center.

Piazza hit his first triple since Sept. 22, 2006 leading off the second, then later added a two-out, two-run home run off White Sox starter Javier Vazquez in the fifth.

Piazza, who also singled in the fourth, just missed hitting for the cycle when his sinking liner to left-center was caught by a diving Owens to end the seventh. The 39-year-old Piazza also struck out looking against reliever Matt Thornton in the 10th.

A.J. Pierzynski had three hits and scored twice for the White Sox, who held a closed door team meeting before the game. Chicago, which had dropped six of its previous eight games including a pair of one-run defeats in the first two games of the series with Oakland, responded 12 hits, its best offensive performance since collecting 14 against Cleveland on Aug. 8.

Vazquez allowed four runs and seven hits over six innings. The White Sox right-hander, who had won seven of his last eight decisions, struck out three and left with a 5-4 lead after Darin Erstad's RBI-double off A's reliever Andrew Brown in the top of the seventh.

The White Sox bullpen had not allowed an earned run in 29 consecutive innings but failed to protect the lead for Vazquez. Shannon Stewart hit his 10th home run of the season, a solo home run off Chicago reliever Boone Logan in the seventh, to tie the score at 5-5.

Oakland ace Dan Haren gave up nine hits and four runs — two of them unearned — over six innings, and was denied his 14th win of the year. The A's right-hander didn't get much help from his defense. Two of Chicago's first three runs were unearned after a pair of fielding errors by Oakland first baseman Nick Swisher, putting the A's in a 3-0 hole.

The A's started their comeback with two runs in the fourth off Vazquez, then took a 4-3 lead on Piazza's fourth home run of the season, a towering two-run blast over the wall in right-center.