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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Oakland 5, Detroit 1
When: 4:05 PM ET, Sunday, April 17, 2011
Where: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature: 60°
Umpires: Home - Wally Bell, 1B - Lazaro Diaz, 2B - Scott Barry, 3B - John Hirschbeck
Attendance: 16460

Trevor Cahill pitched eight strong innings and Josh Willingham drove in two runs as the Oakland A's defeated the visiting Detroit Tigers, 5-1, on Sunday.

Cahill (2-0) allowed a run and four hits with no walks and nine strikeouts as the A's (8-8) earned a split of the four-game series. Casper Wells homered in the sixth for Detroit’s lone run.

Willingham had a two-run single to cap a three-run fifth inning against Detroit starter Brad Penny (0-2) to provide a 4-0 lead. The Athletics took a 5-1 lead in the sixth when Mark Ellis scored on Cliff Pennington’s sacrifice fly.

Penny gave up five runs and four hits in five-plus innings. He struck out five and walked four.

Ellis had two of Oakland's five hits.


Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Detroit   Oakland
Brad Penny Player Trevor Cahill
Loss W/L Win
5.0 IP 8.0
5 Strikeouts 9
4 Hits 4
9.00 ERA 1.12
Hitting
Detroit   Oakland
Casper Wells Player Mark Ellis
1 Hits 2
1 RBI 0
1 HR 0
4 TB 4
.333 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Detroit 5 1 8 .156 8 11 1 0 0 0
Oakland 5 0 8 .179 16 7 5 6 0 1