Oakland 8, Minnesota 2
When: 1:10 PM ET, Thursday, September 12, 2013
Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature:
70°
Umpires:
Home -
Bill Miller, 1B -
Todd Tichenor, 2B -
CB Bucknor, 3B -
Dale Scott
Attendance:
26188
By SportsDirect Inc.
Athletics 8, Twins 2: A.J. Griffin cruised through seven innings and Yoenis Cespedes tripled in a pair as visiting Oakland took the rubber match of a three-game set from Minnesota.
Griffin (14-9) allowed one run and two hits while striking out eight to earn his fourth straight win. Josh Reddick added a two-run homer among three RBIs and Coco Crisp drove in a run and scored twice for the Athletics, who pushed their lead in the American League West to 3 1/2 games over second-place Texas.
Oakland gave Griffin all the support he would need in the third, when Crisp beat out a potential double-play grounder to allow Derek Norris to score. Josh Donaldson walked and Jed Lowrie singled in a run before Cespedes capped the rally with a two-run triple off the center-field wall.
Donaldson singled in a run in the fifth inning and Reddick pushed another across with a sacrifice fly in the sixth before Oswaldo Arcia broke up Griffin’s shutout bid with an opposite-field solo home run in the seventh.
Scott Diamond (5-11) was reached for five runs (four earned) on six hits in 4 2/3 innings in his first start since being recalled from Triple-A Rochester. Alex Presley singled in a run in the eighth for the Twins, who have dropped six of eight.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Cespedes has driven in at least one run in six straight games and is batting .419 with 10 RBIs this month. … Arcia homered twice in the three-game series after going the previous month without a blast. … Oakland will try to put the division race away when it visits Texas for a three-game series beginning Friday. Minnesota hosts the Tampa Bay Rays over the weekend.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Oakland |
|
Minnesota |
|
A.J. Griffin |
Player |
Scott Diamond
|
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
7.0 |
IP |
4.2 |
|
8 |
Strikeouts |
1 |
|
2 |
Hits |
6 |
|
1.29 |
ERA |
7.71 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Oakland
|
11 |
1 |
20 |
.306 |
12 |
4 |
8 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
| Minnesota
|
7 |
1 |
10 |
.212 |
8 |
9 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
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