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A’s tame Tigers, 5-4
By George Devine, Sr. May 28, 2010 |
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The A’s went from Baltimore to Detroit on their current road trip, with RHP Ben Sheets (1-0, 2.52 ERA) facing southpaw Dontrelle Willis (1-2, 4.97 ERA), an Oakland native who spent this youth rooting for the green and gold. As the A’s won 5-4, neither would figure in the decision. The winner was Brad Ziegler (now 2-2, 1 ip, 1 h, 2.42 ERA) and the loser Ryan Perry (1-4, 5.03 ERA, 0.2 ip, 1 h, 2 er, 1 w), with Andrew “Daily” Bailey picking up the save, his tenth (1 ip, 1 h, 1 er, 1 hr). Both teams scored early and often. Rajai Davis led off with a seeing-eye double down the line in left, advanced on Daric Barton’s 1-3 sacrifice, and came home on DH Kurt Suzuki’s single to center. In the home first, Magglio Ordonez singled to center and came home on Miguel Cabrera’s homer to right, his first of three in the game. Oakland came back in the third as Suzuki walked, made second on Willis’ wild pitch, and came home on Jake Fox’s RBI single to left after Kevin Kouzmanoff and Adam Rosales had both grounded out. In the fourth, the Elephants picked up another run when Landon Powell, playing behind the plate, homered just over the line beneath the left field stands. Detroit scored again in the bottom of the inning on Cabrera’s second homer, a solo to left just inside the foul pole. In the ninth, the Athletics broke the game open as Rosales doubled to right, Ryan Sweeney walked, Mark Ellis was hit by a pitch and Gabe Gross singled back towards the mound. Powell ended the inning with a sacrifice fly but not before the score was 5-3 for the visitors. Cabrera hit his third homer of the night, to left field in the home ninth, but it was too little and too late for the Tigers. The two teams meet again at 4:05 p.m. PDT on Saturday, May 29 with LHP Brett Anderson (1-1) taking on RHP Rick Porcello (4-4). |
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