Athletics take 3 of 4 in Detroit
DETROIT (AP)—Rajai Davis(notes) scored twice and Trevor Cahill(notes) continued to pitchwell as the Oakland Athletics beat the Detroit Tigers 4-1 on Monday.
The win was Oakland’s third of the four-game series and fifth out of sevenduring their ongoing 10-game trip. Detroit has lost five of six.
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The start of the game was delayed by 2 hours and 42 minutes due tothreatening weather, although no rain fell until more than an hour after thescheduled start. It started to rain again with Detroit batting in the bottom ofthe eighth, leaving the stadium almost empty by game’s end.
Cahill (4-2) won his third straight start, allowing one run on five hits in6 1-3 innings. He has allowed three runs in 19 innings in his winning streak, anERA of 1.42.
Andrew Bailey(notes) got the final four outs for his 11th save.
Justin Verlander(notes) (5-4) took his second straight loss, giving up three runson six hits and a walk in seven innings. He struck out eight.
Verlander appeared out of rhythm when the game finally began, allowing hitsto the first three batters. Davis led off with a single and scored on DaricBarton’s(notes) double. Barton took third on Ryan Sweeney’s(notes) single and scored when KurtSuzuki(notes) grounded into a double play.
Detroit nearly got on the board in the fourth, but Gabe Gross(notes) threw BrennanBoesch(notes) out at the plate to end the inning.
Kevin Kouzmanoff(notes) made it 3-0 with an seventh-inning RBI single after takingtwo curveballs that Verlander obviously thought should have been strike three.Verlander and Tigers manager Jim Leyland argued with home-plate umpire Laz Diazafter the play and again after the innning, though neither was ejected.
Austin Jackson(notes) pulled the Tigers within 3-1 with a two-out, pinch-hit singlein the seventh, but Johnny Damon(notes) flew out to end the inning.
In the eighth, Davis singled, stole second and third, then scored whenSweeney beat out a possible double-play grounder.
NOTES: Oakland pitcher Dallas Braden(notes) entertained the fans during the longrain delay with a running dive across the tarp, while Barton borrowed a newsphotographer’s camera to take pictures of the stadium and crowd. … Because ofthe weather, the stadium observance of the National Moment of Remebrance at 3 pmcame with the fans standing on the concourse, watching the rain. … Oakland won16 games in May, the most in that month since going 18-9 in 2001.
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