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Oakland As starting pitcher Chris Bassitt took a line drive off his head and was carted off the field during Tuesday nights game against the White Sox.

When you’re hot, you’re hot

The Oakland Athletics began a 10-game road trip Tuesday by continuing to make themselves at home in Cleveland.

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Last night we saw how good the Oakland A’s look when everything goes right. Thursday brought a reminder of how bad any team can look when everything falls apart at once. No part of the A’s roster found any success this afternoon, as they dropped a 8-3 decision to the Texas Rangers to wrap up a series loss at the Coliseum against the last-place club in their division. Oakland has gotten superb starting pitching lately, from all five members of their rotation i...

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The Oakland A’s just got back from a losing road trip, and they made several roster moves Tuesday before beginning their next homestand. The A’s announced the following transactions this afternoon: RHP RHP 1B IF Vimael Machin optioned to Triple-A Wendelken and Schwindel are in, and to make room on the 26-man roster Bedrosian and Machin are out. Schwindel also needed to be added to the 40-man roster in order to come to Oakland, so Bedrosian was ...

SAN FRANCISCO — El fabuloso sustituto Curt Casali volvió a deslumbrar con su bate para pegar un doble en el 10mo que sentenció el juego, y los Gigantes de San Francisco ganaron el sábado 6-5 a los Atléticos de Oakland. Matt Chapman pegó un elevado de sacrificio en la parte alta del inning tras salvar una carrera con un gran lanzamiento al plato unos minutos antes, pero Steven Duggar, igualó con rapidez en un sencillo en la parte baja ante Burch Smith (1-1). Duggar anotó desde primera ...

Curt Casali put a happy ending on his nightmarish game when he doubled home Steven Duggar from first base with one out in the last of the 10th inning, capping a

Eduardo Escobar went 4-for-5 with a homer and five RBIs and the Arizona Diamondbacks routed the host San Diego Padres 10-1 on Saturday night to halt the longest

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants are the majors’ first team to 50 wins, and backup catcher Curt Casali’s steady contributions have been a huge part of that success. The fabulous fill-in did it again with his bat, hitting a game-ending double in the 10th inning as the Giants beat the Oakland Athletics 6-5 on Saturday night. Casali started behind the plate for a second straight day for ailing star Buster Posey. “He takes a lot of pride in kind of serving his team, serving ...

Another frustrating loss