Yuba City's Max Stassi Leads Houston Astros To Sweep Of Oakland A's
Max Stassi and Derek Fisher hit consecutive home runs with two outs in the seventh off Daniel Mengden for a 2-1 lead.
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Max Stassi and Derek Fisher hit consecutive home runs with two outs in the seventh off Daniel Mengden for a 2-1 lead.
George Springer went 6 for 6 with a home run to match a Houston record as the Astros routed the Oakland Athletics 16-2 on Monday night.
The mother of Athletics outfielder Stephen Piscotty has died, less than a year after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease.
It left the Mariners clubhouse filled with mixed feelings - thrilled about what Paxton did, and frustrated about blowing a game it should have won.
The A's and Mariners also faced each other in the last opening series at the Tokyo Dome, splitting two games in 2012.
Jed Lowrie hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning and the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 3-2.
Manaea has a 3-2 record - the A's scored only one run total in his two losses - with a 1.23 ERA. Opponents are only hitting .130 against him.
Sean Manaea's father is from American Samoa, where he grew up playing cricket and rugby and didn't really know anything about baseball.
The teams combined for 555 pitches, 33 hits and 18 walks -12 by Chicago pitchers - in a game that lasted 5 hours and 48 minutes.
Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell pleaded guilty Friday to disorderly conduct in an incident in which he was accused of pointing a handgun at the head of a woman who delivered food to his home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The crowd of 10,132 was the largest of the series, which attracted 34,613 total for the four games.
Texas left-hander Martin Perez had to get a little crafty to keep things from getting out of hand in his first start of the year.
Marcus Semien singled into an empty center field with one out in the 11th inning, beating Los Angeles' five-man infield to lift the Oakland Athletics over the Angels 6-5 on opening day Thursday.
Left-hander Brett Anderson is back pitching with the club for which he broke into the big leagues, reaching agreement on a minor league contract with the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday.
The Oakland Athletics landed a new starting catcher, finalizing a $6.5 million, one-year contract with free agent Jonathan Lucroy.
