The Athletics stopped Seattle’s seven-game winning streak at Oakland Coliseum with Friday’s 6-3 victory but was unable to collect their fifth win in six tries since getting swept at home last weekend by the Chicago Cubs.
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“For the most part I thought I threw the ball well”, Graveman said of Saturday’s outing. Against lefties now we’re leading him off.
“His swing before, I had him beat up and in”. Iannetta and Aoki singles set up a Smith RBI single and a Cano two run blast that put the Mariners up 4-1.
The Mariners moved within 5 1/2 games of AL West-leading Texas, matching the closest they’ve been to the division leaders since early June. If all goes as planned, Doolittle will throw one inning on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday and be activated from the disabled list on August 22 when the A’s open a three-game series against Cleveland at Oakland Coliseum. Starting pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma allowed nine hits and three runs while striking out two over 5.1 innings to get the win and raise his record to 14-7 for the season and Edwin Diaz earned his sixth save. After a three-hit night that included two doubles, Butler is hitting.474 (18-for-38) over his past 11 games with seven multi-hit games over that span.
The biggest blow for the green and gold came in the form of a two-run home run from Khris Davis, it was No. 30 on the season from “Khrush”.
Blue Jays 9, Astros 2: Troy Tulowitzki and Russell Martin hit back-to-back home runs, and Marcus Stroman pitched 6 1/3 innings for Toronto.
“It’s just a number”.
PLUS: Nelson Cruz went 2-for-4 and is batting.435 (10-for-23) over his last six games…closer Edwin Diaz has allowed only one run in 15 1/3 innings over his last 16 appearances…reliever Arquimedes Caminero has five scoreless innings in four outings since arriving in an August 6 trade from Pittsburgh…catcher Chris Iannetta went 2-for-3 with a walk. 1B Adam Lind’s homer to lead off the second, his 17th of the season, staked Seattle to a 1-0 lead.
The Mariners also scored in the fourth after an inning-ending double play was overturned by replay.
Lind is significantly bigger than O’Malley but it hardly mattered when the Mariners first baseman and shortstop collided chasing a pop-up near the mound in the third inning.
“This reminds me of when I was playing back in NY”, second baseman Robinson Cano said.
“Shawn always talks about he was a really good football player, that he might have been a better football player than baseball player in high school”, Seager said. “That was one of the reasons I took him out when I did. But he kind of hit a helpless receiver there”.
“He can hit anywhere in the lineup”, Melvin said. James Paxton emerged from his bullpen session feeling fine and is slated to start Tuesday in Anaheim. James Paxton, who was hit in the elbow by a line drive August 7, is still sore but Servais is hopeful to have the lefty back in the rotation early next week.
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-The A’s are sending Jesse Hahn out on an injury rehabilitation assignment Tuesday with Nashville, where he’ll join Doolittle. Mariners RHP Felix Hernandez will start Monday against the Angels on his regular four days’ rest. Detwiler pitched eight scoreless innings against Baltimore in his debut on August 10.
