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A’s sink Pirates, 14-4
By George Devine, Sr. June 25, 2010 |
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The Athletics continued to host interleague play, opening a three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Righthanders Ben Sheets (2-7, 4.95 ERA) and Brad Lincoln (0-1, 6.50) squared off. The home team prevailed in a 3:05 batting-practice marathon before an announced crowd of 11,154 in what turned out to be a drizzly fog, while the Boston Red Sox accounted for more than triple that crowd with SRO attendance across the bay at San Francisco. Sheets got the win and is now 3-7 (6 ip, 8 h, 4 er, 9 k, 1 hr); Lincoln is the loser (0-2, 8 ip, 5 r, 3 er, 2 w, 1 k). Oakland scored seven runs in the seventh, and racked up a total of seventeen hits in the game. A scary moment occurred in the seventh, when Neil Walker and Ryan Church both chased a foul ball to right off the bat of Kevin Kouzmanoff and collided. Walker’s head and neck felt the impact of Church’s knee and both teammates and medics rushed to the scene. Walker eventually left the field on his own power but went for observation at a nearby hospital. At that point shortstop Bobby Crosby – a former Athletic -- moved to second to relieve Walker and Ronny Cedeno came in at short. Walker was just shy of the cycle, needing only a triple; Oakland’s Coco Crisp was also just short of the cycle tonight, needing only a homer. The only home run in the high-scoring evening was hit by Walker in the fifth inning off Sheets. The two teams meet again at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday, June 26 with RHP Trevor Cahill (6-2, 3.21) facing Pittsburgh’s Daniel McCutchen. |
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