Gonzalez Hits 1st HR, Rockies Beat A's 4-1
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The Royals battered Madison Bumgarner for eight runs on 10 hits, six of them for extra-bases, in beating the Giants 15-3 Friday night.
Andy LaRoche, making a bid to earn a utility role for Oakland, hit a solo home run in the fifth. It was his fourth homer of the spring.
Miguel Tejada hit a solo homer in the seventh for the San Francisco Giants, who lost 7-1 to the Cleveland Indians on Thursday night.
Tyson Ross is making it hard on his manager. Bob Geren needs to pick a fifth starter, and Ross hasn't done anything to eliminate himself from consideration.
Bobby Abreu and the Los Angeles Angels made Matt Cain pay for throwing too many balls.
Carlos Silva had his best performance of a difficult spring, leading the Chicago Cubs over the Oakland Athletics 3-1 Wednesday.
Coco Crisp and Daric Barton homered off Mike Leake, lifting the Oakland Athletics over the Cincinnati Reds 10-8 on Tuesday.
Matt Kemp tripled and drove in a run and Andre Ethier added an RBI double to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers past the San Francisco Giants 6-3 on Friday.
Jonathan Sanchez pitched six sharp innings to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 4-0 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday night.
Conor Jackson hit a game-ending double to cap a three-run ninth inning as the Oakland Athletics overcame home runs by Alfonso Soriano, Geovany Soto and Reed Johnson for a 6-5 win over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday.
Tim Lincecum struck out seven in 5 1-3 innings to help the San Francisco Giants to a 5-3 win over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday.
Travis Ishikawa hit a tie-breaking RBI double in the top of the ninth inning to lift the San Francisco Giants to a 5-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Tests reveal that Oakland closer Andrew Bailey has a strained forearm, news that comes as a relief to the Athletics after they feared he had a serious elbow injury.
Matt Cain pitched three hitless innings in his first appearance since San Francisco's spring opener, but the Milwaukee Brewers rallied for six runs off Jeff Suppan to beat the Giants 12-8.
Andrew Bailey faced three batters in his second spring outing Monday and left a 9-8 loss to the Cleveland Indians with discomfort in his elbow.
After getting swept up in World Series fever last fall, a rookie baseball fan joined the annual pilgrimage to Arizona for baseball's Spring Training.
San Francisco right-hander Ryan Vogelsong is enjoying every moment of his attempt to make it back to the major leagues for the first time in five years.
Hideki Matsui needed this one.
Emmanuel Burriss drove in two runs in the first inning with a double, and Travis Ishikawa and Brandon Belt each added run-scoring singles to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 6-4 win over the San Diego Padres on Friday night.
Gonzalez allowed a solo homer to Aaron Miles for his first earned run of the spring, but an Oakland Athletics split squad beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-2 Friday.
Kurt Suzuki hit a two-run homer and Matt Carson doubled home two runs for Oakland Thursday in a 4-4 tie with the Kansas City Royals. The game was called after nine innings.
Madison Bumgarner struck out six in four scoreless innings and the San Francisco Giants hit three quick home runs off Bronson Arroyo in a 7-0 win Thursday over the Cincinnati Reds.
Neftali Feliz and Derek Holland each threw three scoreless innings and the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 9-2 Wednesday.
Barry Zito allowed only one hit in five shutout innings and Aubrey Huff homered and added an RBI single and the San Francisco Giants defeated the Chicago White Sox 4-2 on Wednesday.
