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Adames, Brosseau hit homers as Rays beat As Willy Adames hit a three-run homer in the fifth, Mike Brosseau added a tiebreaking drive the following inning and the Tampa Bay Rays held off the Oakland Athletics 4-3 on Sunday to avoid a series sweep. The Canadian Press Tampa Bay Rays Willy Adames , The Canadian Press OAKLAND, Calif. — The Rays and As played a pair of tough series in a span of two weeks, splitting four games in Florida before three more ...

Brown delivers the big hits again, As beat Rays Seth Brown hit a two-run homer in the first inning a day after delivering a walkoff drive, sending the Oakland Athletics past the Tampa Bay Rays again with a 6-3 win Saturday. The Canadian Press Seth Brown , The Canadian Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Seth Brown may sit again Sunday against a left-handed starter and await his chance to help off the bench if regular right fielder Stephen Piscotty returns to Oa...

Photo by Cody Glenn/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Oakland A’s have seven players on their injured list right now, but two of them have made recent progress toward returns in the hopefully near future. Super-sub Chad Pinder, who sprained his left knee in the first week of the season, has resumed running the bases, reports insider Martin Gallegos, which was considered a major milestone in his recovery. A potential date of May 10 had previously been reported for a possible minor league r...

The A’s have placed Mike Fiers on the 10-day injured list with a sprained right elbow, per the team. The move is retroactive to May 7th. This will be Fiers second stint on the injured list this season. The right-hander has been tagged for eight earned runs in just 9 1/3 innings across two starts. He has given up 15 hits while walking four and allowing four home runs. Burch Smith has been reinstated from the injured list to take Fiers’ place on the roster. The 31-year-old right-hander will ...

They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but it just did in the Oakland A’s organization. The A’s announced Wednesday that they’ve re-acquired Skye Bolt from the San Francisco Giants. The outfielder began the year with Oakland but was designated for assignment in early April and then claimed off waivers by San Francisco. However, the Giants DFA’d him again a few weeks later, and now he’s back where he started and will report to Triple-A Las Vegas. The official transaction is a trad...

Photo by Daniel Shirey/Getty Images The Oakland A’s pitching staff got knocked around last night, and the hits kept coming today in the trainer’s room. The A’s placed Jesús Luzardo and J.B. Wendelken on the 10-day injured list Sunday morning, the team announced. The diagnoses are a fractured left hand for Luzardo, and a strained left oblique for Wendelken. The pair combined to allow all eight runs the Baltimore Orioles scored in an 8-4 loss the previous day. Luzardo’s injury occurred...

Harvey wins third start in row, Orioles beat sloppy As Matt Harvey won his third straight start and the Baltimore Orioles took advantage of Oaklands sloppy play to score six runs in the third inning Saturday in an 8-4 win over the Athletics. The Canadian Press Matt Harvey , The Canadian Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Matt Harvey won his third straight start and the Baltimore Orioles took advantage of Oaklands sloppy play to score six runs in the third inni...

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The Oakland A’s got to add a 27th player to their active roster yesterday to help with their doubleheader, but that means someone has to go down today to reduce the roster back to 26. That odd player out is reliever Jordan Weems, who was optioned to the alternate site, the team announced Wednesday morning. Usually when a team adds the extra player for a doubleheader, they do so by calling someone up from the minors and then sending the same player d...

As slug, pitch past Tigers for 7th straight win Matt Olson, Aramís García and Mark Canha each homered and the Oakland Athletics shut out the Detroit Tigers for a second straight game, 7-0 on Saturday for their seventh win in a row. The Canadian Press Elvis Andrus , The Canadian Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Superstitious manager Bob Melvin ditched his in-game candy habit during Oaklands awful start. Now that things have drastically trended upward, Melvi...

Detroit takes 3-game slide into matchup with Oakland April 18, 2021 By The Associated Press Detroit Tigers (6-9) vs. Oakland Athletics (8-7) Oakland, California; Sunday, 4:07 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Matthew Boyd (2-1, 1.86 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 14 strikeouts) Athletics: Chris Bassitt (1-2, 4.96 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, 11 strikeouts) FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Athletics -141, Tigers +122; over/under is 8 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers enter the matchup as losers of their last three ...