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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Oakland 8, NY Mets 5
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
Temperature: 79°
Umpires: Home - Joe West, 1B - Fieldin Culbreth, 2B - Manny Gonzalez, 3B - Jerry Layne
Attendance: 23367

Athletics 8, Mets 5: Coco Crisp homered among three hits and drove in a pair of runs while Brandon Moss belted a two-run shot as visiting Oakland built an eight-run lead en route to earning a split of the two-game series.

Yoenis Céspedes delivered a three-run double and Josh Reddick joined Crisp with two runs scored as the Athletics improved to 6-2 in their last eight. Brad Mills (1-0), acquired from Milwaukee for $1 on June 13, gave Oakland plenty of bang for its buck by giving up three runs on nine hits over 6 1/3 innings in his second start of the season to earn his first win since July 8, 2012.

Pinch hitter Lucas Duda clubbed a three-run homer, Chris Young added a two-run blast - his third homer in two games - and Curtis Granderson collected three hits for New York, which was denied a season-high fourth straight win. Zack Wheeler (3-8), coming off his first career shutout, lasted only two innings as he was battered for six runs on as many hits to drop to 0-3 in five interleague starts.

Moss hit a towering homer to right field off Wheeler in the first inning before the Athletics pulled away with four runs in the second, getting an RBI single from Crisp and a bases-clearing double from Cespedes to make it 6-0. Crisp smack a solo shot off reliever Dana Eveland in the fourth before a double-play grounder by Mills in the sixth pushed home another run.

Mills gave up one-out singles by Travis d'Arnaud and Ruben Tejada in the seventh, bringing manager Bob Melvin to the mound for a visit. Melvin stayed with Mills and Duda hammered the next pitch out to right-center to get the Mets on the board before Young went deep in the eighth to cut the deficit to 8-5. Athletics closer Sean Doolittle came on in the ninth and struck out the side for his 11th save.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Cespedes, who has 12 RBIs during his 10-game hitting streak, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he plans to defend his title in the Home Run Derby during next month's All-Star Weekend. ... Granderson has reached base safely in 33 straight starts, but 3B David Wright had his RBI streak snapped at seven games. ... The Mets open a seven-game road trip at Pittsburgh on Thursday, while the Athletics have a day off before resuming their eight-game trek at Miami on Friday.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Oakland   NY Mets
Brad Mills Player Zack Wheeler
Win W/L Loss
6.1 IP 2.0
4 Strikeouts 4
9 Hits 6
4.26 ERA 27.00
Hitting
Oakland   NY Mets
Coco Crisp Player Curtis Granderson
3 Hits 3
2 RBI 0
1 HR 0
6 TB 4
.600 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Oakland 11 2 18 .306 14 10 7 4 1 0
NY Mets 11 2 18 .306 12 8 5 0 0 0