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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Oakland 7, Arizona 2
When: 4:05 PM ET, Sunday, July 3, 2011
Where: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature: 83°
Umpires: Home - D.J. Reyburn, 1B - Eric Cooper, 2B - Mark Carlson, 3B - Jeff Kellogg
Attendance: 13822

All-Star Gio Gonzalez cruised through seven innings while Conor Jackson and Scott Sizemore each homered as the Oakland Athletics posted a 7-2 victory over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.

David DeJesus chipped in a two-run double for the A’s, who won their first series since sweeping the San Francisco Giants from June 17-19.

Gonzalez (8-5), who was named to his first All-Star team earlier Sunday, allowed five hits and one run while striking out seven. The 25-year-old has not allowed more than two earned runs in any of his last five outings.

Diamondbacks starter Ian Kennedy (8-3), who is eligible for the final spot on the National League All-Star roster as part of the five-man final vote, did not make such a good impression. The righthander was charged with all seven runs on 10 hits in 5 2/3 innings.

Oakland jumped on top with DeJesus’ double in the fourth and built the lead in the sixth when Jackson and Sizemore sandwiched two-run homers around a sacrifice fly from Jemile Weeks.

Justin Upton, who was named to the NL All-Star team as Arizona’s lone representative, doubled and scored.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Arizona   Oakland
Ian Kennedy Player Gio Gonzalez
Loss W/L Win
5.2 IP 7.0
6 Strikeouts 7
10 Hits 5
11.12 ERA 1.29
Hitting
Arizona   Oakland
Sean Burroughs Player Scott Sizemore
1 Hits 3
1 RBI 2
0 HR 1
1 TB 7
1.000 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Arizona 7 0 10 .212 22 8 2 5 0 0
Oakland 10 2 18 .303 14 9 7 2 0 0