Oakland 6, Seattle 3
When: 4:05 PM ET, Sunday, April 6, 2014
Where: O.co Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature:
68°
Umpires:
Home -
Manny Gonzalez, 1B -
Jim Reynolds, 2B -
Sean Barber, 3B -
Fieldin Culbreth
Attendance:
32852
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Athletics 6, Mariners 3: Brandon Moss hit a three-run homer and Eric Sogard went 3-for-3 as host Oakland knocked off Seattle.
Sonny Gray (1-0) gave up three runs – one earned – and six hits in six innings as the Athletics took two of three games from the Mariners. Yoenis Cespedes homered in the eighth inning to make it a three-run margin and Jim Johnson allowed two runners to reach in the ninth before working out of the jam with back-to-back strikeouts for his first save since becoming Oakland’s closer.
Oakland trailed 3-0 in the third inning when Moss belted his blast to right field off Erasmo Ramirez (1-1). Sogard led off the inning with a single and Jed Lowrie kept it alive with a two-out single before Moss delivered on the fourth pitch from Ramirez.
The Athletics went ahead in the fifth on Josh Donaldson’s run-scoring infield hit and added another later in the inning when Coco Crisp scored from third on Lowrie’s sacrifice fly as part of a unique force play. Seattle’s Abraham Almonte was ruled to have dropped a fly ball in center field while preparing to transfer the ball to his bare hand and his throw to second retired Donaldson, who had retreated back to first.
Almonte had a run-scoring single in the second and Brad Miller followed with one of his own to give Seattle a 2-0 lead. The Mariners increased the lead to three in the third when Robinson Cano doubled and scored on a single to center by Justin Smoak.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Ramirez allowed five runs and seven hits in four-plus innings. … Donaldson’s infield single in the fifth snapped a streak of 20 consecutive hitless at-bats. … The Mariners scored just eight runs in the three games against Oakland after piling up 26 in a season-opening three-game road sweep of the Los Angeles Angels.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Seattle
|
8 |
0 |
10 |
.235 |
18 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
Oakland
|
9 |
2 |
16 |
.300 |
11 |
6 |
6 |
4 |
1 |
1 |