The red hot Canha has now recorded multiple hit games in five of his last six contests, and boasts a. 435 avg. with 11 RBI over his past 12 contests. Graveman handed him a 1-Zero lead, and Doolittle could not maintain it, giving up two runs whereas getting simply two outs. On the evening Doolittle was activated from the disabled list, Pat Venditte was asked to close, and he wound up on the short end of a 5-4 loss.
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“It was a four-seamer away to Longoria, and I felt it seize”, Graveman stated.
“I thought I threw the ball way better, especially with my offspeed and my curve, my fastball command”, he said. For me, that’s how I gotta pitch.
The loss denied the Rays a chance for their first-ever series sweep at Oakland and cost them a game in the Wild Card standings. He’ll be examined Monday by team doctors.
There will come a time when Sean Doolittle will be the man manager Bob Melvin turns to after Sonny Gray leaves a game with a one-run lead after eight innings. What could have been an 8-2 journey ended a disheartening 4-6, the postgame silence and head shaking in the clubhouse saying plenty. “I was able to bear down right there and hit my spots”. It was a team win. A three-hit day Sunday raised Burns’ average back to.293, and it seems every time he starts to dip under. “I wasn’t what I wanted”.
Ramirez (10-4, 3.57 ERA) yielded five runs, five hits and five walks in six innings of the 7-2 home loss to Oakland on May 24, marking the fifth straight start he’s lost against the A’s.
The A’s flooded the bases with eight consecutive batters reaching via hit or walk to start the bottom of the frame.
“No matter how hard I tried to slow down, I was still working too fast”, Doolittle said. “The adrenaline was going really fast”.
-3B Danny Valencia, who missed Saturday’s game with a sore lower right hamstring, returned to the lineup Sunday against Tampa Bay and went 1-for-3 with a run.
The lefty said he was rushing his pitches, which is common for pitchers in their first game back. “And we might actually use him the best way he is been going”. “He feels good enough to play today”.
The solid outing was not only a sign of his physical progress but provided a needed boost to his own confidence, tested by the long, mundane process of strengthening and stabilizing his shoulder and four unimpressive minor-league rehab starts on the way back.
-CF Billy Burns went 3-for-4 with a triple and scored two runs Sunday in an 8-2 win against Tampa Bay.
Athletics: LHP Felix Doubrant (1-1) makes his second start since being added to Oakland’s rotation.
He’ll have surgery tomorrow, and will be out the next six to eight weeks. The A’s acquired Doubront from Toronto on July 31 in a trade. Ramirez has had some success against a few of the Oakland hitters over his career, including Eric Sogard who is 2 for 9, Coco Crisp who is 1 for 9, and Josh Reddick who is 1 for 14.
QUOTE TO NOTE: “Might be a little while”. He’ll be examined by doctors on August 24.
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Then in the sixth, a leadoff single and two more with one out left him with the bases loaded and unsafe Brett Lawrie at the plate.
