The Oakland Athletics and the Seattle Mariners may not have much say in the AL playoff race. However, a pair of young pitchers may have the teams feeling good about their respective futures. Oakland's Gio Gonzalez and Seattle's Luke French will try to continue their strong stretches when they start in the finale of this three-game set Wednesday night.
sports.yahoo.com/ - AP Via Yahoo! Sports - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 2:26:18 AM EDT
OAKLAND -- Ichiro Suzuki registered two more hits in his quest for his 10th consecutive 200-hit season and drove in a run, as Seattle held off Oakland, 7-5, hampering the Athletics in their attempt to gain ground in the AL West.
www.sportsline.com/ - CBS Sports - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 2:19:43 AM EDT
Oakland Athletics left-hander Dallas Braden has allowed more than one run once in his last five starts. An outing against the light-hitting Seattle Mariners could help him continue that stretch of solid pitching. The A's look to win their seventh straight at home in this matchup Tuesday night when the Mariners try to avoid scoring three or fewer runs in a franchise record-tying 12th straight...
sports.yahoo.com/ - AP Via Yahoo! Sports - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 2:09:40 AM EDT
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Brett Anderson had a comfortable cushion for a change. He could breathe and just pitch. Coco Crisp and Matt Carson each hit a solo home run to back. Anderson, and the Oakland Athletics, beat the Seattle Mariners 6-2 on Monday.
Times wires Monday, September 6, 2010 Athletics 6, Mariners 2 OAKLAND, Calif. — Coco Crisp and Matt Carson hit solo home runs to back Brett Anderson and lift the Athletics. Anderson won for the first time in five starts since Aug. 4. He ended a four-game skid that matched his career worst. Crisp homered in the first, Oakland's first leadoff homer of the season. It was the third leadoff home run ...
www.tampabay.com/ - St. Petersburg Times - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 2:04:02 AM EDT
Times wires Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Mariners 7, Athletics 5 OAKLAND, Calif. — Doug Fister won for the second time in nearly four months, Adam Moore homered and the Mariners broke out of a long scoring slump. Fister allowed five hits over five innings and pitched out of several jams while leading the Mariners to their first win at the Coliseum since Opening Day.
www.tampabay.com/ - St. Petersburg Times - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 1:58:49 AM EDT
OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Adam Moore and Casey Kotchman each had two RBI Tuesday in the Seattle Mariners' 7-5 road win over Oakland. Seattle Mariners - Casey Kotchman - Adam Moore - United States - Oakland Athletics
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Doug Fister won for the second time in nearly four months, Adam Moore homered and the Seattle Mariners broke out of a long scoring slump to beat the Oakland Athletics 7-5 on Tuesday night.
The Oakland Athletics, along with the MLS San Jose Earthquakes, have selected an architect to design the teams' proposed privately funded stadiums. While the San Francisco Giants hold the territorial rights to San Jose, Commissioner Bud Selig could soon make recommendations on how to proceed. He formed a committee to study the issue and has regularly said the run-down Oakland Coliseum isn't...
sports.yahoo.com/ - AP Via Yahoo! Sports - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 1:36:54 AM EDT
OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Coco Crisp collected a pair of RBI and Brett Anderson allowed one run over seven-plus innings Monday in the Oakland Athletics' 6-2 victory over Seattle. Oakland Athletics - Coco Crisp - Brett Anderson - Run batted in - Sports
The Oakland Athletics haven't received permission to move anywhere, but that hasn't stopped the team's owner from hiring an architect for a new ballpark in San Jose.
www.sportsline.com/ - CBS Sports - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 1:34:27 AM EDT
Athletics' third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff left Oakland's game against the Los Angeles Angels with an apparent lower back injury in the bottom of the fifth inning Sunday. Kouzmanoff singled sharply and grabbed his lower back as he began running toward first base. He slowed down but was able to reach first safely before Gabe Gross came in as a pinch runner. Kouzmanoff was hitting .283 over his ...
www.cbs5.com/ - CBS 5 Bay Area - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 1:29:45 AM EDT
Scoring more than a few runs a game has been a challenge for Seattle lately. That's why Adam Moore embraced the Mariners' five-run inning against Oakland's Dallas Braden, even if it lacked style points. Seattle banged out seven hits in the second inning, all of them soft singles, and jumped to a six-run lead before holding off a late rally to beat the Athletics 7-5 on Tuesday night.
sports.yahoo.com/ - AP Via Yahoo! Sports - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 1:23:01 AM EDT