Colby Lewis and four relievers combined on a five-hitter and the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 7-1 Saturday.
Ian Kinsler had two hits and three RBIs for Texas, which increased its AL West lead to three games over the Los Angeles Angels. (...)
Sean Rodriguez hit a go-ahead, two-run home run in the eighth as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Oakland Athletics 5-4 Saturday to stay only a game off the lead in the American League.
Evan Longoria hit a home run and Ben Zobrist and Willy Aybar also (...)
Kevin Kouzmanoff scored the go-ahead run on second baseman Ben Zobrist's fielding error in the eighth inning as Oakland Athletics again beat Tampa Bay Rays by one run, 5-4 in the American League on Friday.
Rajai Davis hit a tying sacrifice fly in (...)
Shaun Marcum pitched a one-hitter, allowing only a home run to Conor Jackson leading off the seventh inning, while Jose Bautista hit his majors-best 37th home run to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 3-1 win over Oakland Athletics Monday night.
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Ramon Hernandez hit a tiebreaking leadoff home run in the 10th inning, Joey Votto and Scott Rolen added back-to-back shots as the Cincinnati Reds broke out of their offensive slump to beat the Oakland Athletics 6-4 Monday.
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It's never too late to earn your college degree. Just ask 94-year-old Hazel Soares.
The woman was one of about 500 students to pick up diplomas Saturday during a commencement ceremony at Mills College, an all-women's school in Oakland. “It's taken (...)
Dallas Braden pitched the 19th perfect game in major league history, a dazzling performance for the Athletics in a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays Sunday.
When Gabe Kapler grounded out to shortstop for the final out, Braden had completed the (...)
The Tampa Bay Rays' extraordinary start to the American League season got even better with a 4-1 win at the Oakland Athletics Friday.
At 22-7, the Rays are off to the best start to a season since the New York Yankees began 23-6 in 2003. Tampa Bay (...)
Kurt Suzuki hit a three-run homer and later grounded into the Yankees' first triple play since 1968 before New York lost 4-2 to the Oakland Athletics Thursday.
Dallas Braden (3-0) and Yankees star Alex Rodriguez got into a shouting match after the (...)
Alex Rodriguez hit a three-run homer to lift the New York Yankees to a 7-3 win over the Oakland Athletics Tuesday, notching a fifth straight American League win.
Yankees starter Javier Vazquez (1-2) finally showed the form that made him a 15-game (...)
Oakland's Brett Anderson held Seattle scoreless into the seventh inning to set up the Athletics' 6-2 win over the Mariners in Thursday's American League West clash.
Anderson struck out four and walked one to take the win.
Daric Barton drove in a (...)
Kurt Suzuki hit a walkoff RBI double with one out in the ninth inning to lift the Oakland Athletics to a 6-5 win over the Seattle Mariners in Wednesday's American League action.
Suzuki's seventh career walkoff hit provided a happy ending to a night (...)
New York's Derek Jeter had his third straight three-hit game and knocked in the go-ahead run to lift the Yankees to a 7-2 win over the Oakland Athletics in the American League Tuesday.
Jeter's RBI single in the sixth broke a 2-2 tie and the Yankees (...)
Brett Tomko pitched five scoreless innings to beat New York less than a month after being released by the Yankees, winning his debut with the Oakland Athletics 3-0 in the American League Monday.
Kurt Suzuki and Mark Ellis had RBI hits in a (...)
Shorn of its franchise-record winning streak, a drained Boston Celtics team gave up a 14-point lead and lost to the struggling Golden State Warriors 99-89 in the NBA on Friday.
A day after their 19-game streak was ended by the Los Angeles Lakers, (...)
Eric Hinske had three hits, including a home run, and Ben Zobrist doubled in the go-ahead run in the seventh as Tampa Bay beat Oakland 3-2 on Wednesday.
Carlos Pena hit a home run for the first-place Rays, who maintained their three-game lead over (...)