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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Oakland 4, Seattle 3
When: 4:10 PM ET, Sunday, October 3, 2010
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature: 62°
Umpires: Home - Gary Darling, 1B - Bruce Dreckman, 2B - Paul Emmel, 3B - Bill Hohn
Attendance: 23263
Dallas Braden pitched five effective innings and rookie Chris Carter delivered a go-ahead single as the Oakland Athletics completed a four-game sweep with a 4-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Sunday at Safeco Field.

Kurt Suzuki and Kevin Kouzmanoff homered for the Athletics, who got great starting pitching in the series to finish at .500 for the first time since 2006. The four Oakland starters allowed three earned runs in 26 innings.

Braden (11-14) pitched scoreless ball until the fifth in this one when Ichiro Suzuki doubled home two runs to tie the contest at 2-2.

Carter, who homered in Saturday’s 5-3 victory, greeted Seattle reliever Jamey Wright with a bases-loaded RBI single in the sixth to snap the tie. Anthony Varvaro (0-1), who started the inning in place of Ryan Rowland-Smith, loaded the bases with one out before being replaced by Wright.

Kouzmanoff added his 16th homer in the eighth, but Suzuki singled and eventually scored on a base hit by rookie Justin Smoak to cut the Oakland lead to 4-3.

Craig Breslow closed out Seattle in the ninth for his fifth save as Oakland secured second place in the American League West, one game ahead of the Los Angeles Angels.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Oakland   Seattle
Dallas Braden Player Ryan Rowland-Smith
Win W/L No Decision
5.0 IP 5.0
2 Strikeouts 3
5 Hits 4
3.60 ERA 3.60
Hitting
Oakland   Seattle
Chris Carter Player Greg Halman
2 Hits 2
1 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 2
.667 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Oakland 10 2 18 .278 16 7 4 2 0 0
Seattle 10 0 11 .278 18 9 3 1 1 1