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• Oakland A’s Complete Sweep of Kansas City Royals to Climb Above .500

  
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  Bob Stanton-USA TODAY Sports A.J. Griffin took the mound for the Oakland A’s on Sunday and although he wasn’t brilliant, he pitched well enough to keep his team in the game. The A’s were able to get to the Kansas City Royals ‘ bullpen and win 4-3 and complete a weekend sweep that brought their ...
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• Oakland Athletics’ Tommy Milone Snaps Five-Game Losing Skid with Win on Saturday

  
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  Joe Nicholson – USA Today Sports Images Coming into the 2013 MLB season, the Oakland Athletics needed a solid season from Tommy Milone at the top of their starting rotation if they were going to be successful. Through the A’s first 44 games of the season, the A’s have been decent, but not special, ...
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• Seattle Mariners Really Need to Sweep Oakland Athletics

  
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  Steven Bisig- USA TODAY Sports Right-hander  Hisashi Iwakuma  did his job in the  Seattle Mariners’   6-3 victory over the  Oakland Athletics , going seven very-strong innings and only allowing two earned runs. This was Iwakuma’s fourth victory of the season and it was much needed for  Eric Wedge’s ...
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• Oakland Athletics Hoping for Quality Start from Jarrod Parker Tonight vs. Seattle Mariners

  
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  Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports It goes without saying that the Oakland Athletics would really benefit from a solid outing from starter Jarrod Parker tonight. The 24-year-old will take the hill in the second game of a weekend series against the Seattle Mariners up at Safeco Field, and it’d be nice if he ...
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• Yoenis Cespedes Struggling To Get Things Going For Oakland Athletics

  
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  Debby Wong-USA TODAY Sports Yoenis Cespedes , welcome to what the sports world calls the sophomore slump. The cat-and-mouse adjustments between pitchers and hitters are a major part of baseball, and the AL’s Cuban sensation and Rookie of the Year runner up is finding that hurlers in the league are adjusting to ...
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• Will Dan Straily Help Oakland Athletics Get Back on Track?

  
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  Jake Roth-USA TODAY Sports The Oakland Athletics will need starting pitcher Dan Straily to be on top of his game Friday night if the team wants to defeat the streaking San Diego Padres . Considering the Athletics have lost four straight games Straily needs to give his best performance of the season in order ...
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• Chipper Jones Tees Off on Umpires After Horrendous Call

  
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  Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports In case you missed the fireworks last night, let me reset the stage… With the Oakland Athletics down 4-3 in the bottom of the ninth inning, part-timer Adam Rosales hit what everyone thought was the game-tying home run. Well, everyone except the umpires. The ball in question ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oakland Tucked Again: Oakland Athletics Stolen Home Run Reminiscent to Tuck Rule

  
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  David Richard-US Presswire Adam Rosales was supposed to have been the ninth-inning hero for the Oakland Athletics after hitting a two-out bomb to deep left field, but MLB   umpire Angel Hernandez made a horrendous call that stole the game away from the A’s. The injury-depleted A’s needed this game ...
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• Call It a Comeback? Cleveland Indians’ Scott Kazmir Ks 10 in Win

  
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  David Richard-USA TODAY Sports Scott Kazmir won his first game since Sept. 19, 2010 last week, as the Cleveland Indians topped the Minnesota Twins . After beating the Oakland Athletics on Thursday afternoon, the left hander has now won his first back-to-back starts since June 12 and 18, 2010. Kazmir ...
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• Should the Oakland Athletics Call Up Grant Green or Jemile Weeks for Infield Help?

  
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  Jake Roth-USA TODAY Sports The Oakland Athletics sit at 18-18, after losing four straight to the Cleveland Indians (aided by the efforts of reviled umpire Angel Hernandez , whose blown call Wednesday night robbed Oakland of a game-tying home run). They will regroup and head into a weekend series with the ...
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• Seattle Mariners Hope To Continue Success Against Oakland Athletics

  
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  Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports The Seattle Mariners opened 2013 by taking two out of three from the Oakland Athletics . They’ll try to parlay that success in their upcoming three-game set with the A’s. Friday: Projected starters are Dan Straily and Hisashi Iwakuma . While Straily has a huge strikeout ...
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• Angel Hernandez Gives MLB a Black Eye and MLB Says "Thank you"

  
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  Toss the manager when you blow the call. The first I heard of the controversial ending in Wednesday nights Oakland As-Cleveland Indians game was while I listened to Mike and Mike on ESPN radio this morning. Right off the bat - appropriate baseball phrase in this case - I had a problem with the fact that Angel ...
  2 weeks ago

• Texas Rangers Could Start To Run Away With American League West

  
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  Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports The Texas Rangers are currently leading the American League West by 3.5 games over the Oakland Athletics , and they have a good chance this weekend to really extend that lead. The Rangers will start a three-game series against the Houston Astros on Friday. It is realistic ...
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• Who Failed, System or Umpire?

  
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  Umpires are always going to draw the ire of fans and players. The nameless men in blue only get a name tag when they make a mistake. The mistakes range in severity, from a blow call on the strike zone, a wrong call on the base paths, or to the more egregious mistake of exacerbating an argument with a manager or ...
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• Dennis Eckersley Autograph Signing July 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame Weekend

  
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  On Saturday July 27th, MAB Celebrity Services will host a public autograph signing for  Oakland As/ Boston Red Sox  Class of 2004 Baseball Hall of Fame relief pitcher, Dennis Eckersley.  The signing will take place in Cooperstown, New York  and is part of the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame Spectacular . ...
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• Josh Reddick Out of Oakland Athletics Lineup with Wrist Injury

  
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  Cary Edmondson-USA TODAY Sports The Oakland Athletics might have an explanation for Josh Reddick ‘s early-season struggles. The team announced on Tuesday that the Gold Glove right fielder, who is hitting .152 in 29 games heading into play on Tuesday, has been battling a wrist injury and will be held out of ...
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• BIG HAIR & PLASTIC GRASS Dan Epstein Interview #2 – MLB in the Swingin’ 70s on The FREAK POWER TICKET: Podcast Now Online

  
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  On April 15, “The Freak Power Ticket” featured an interview with Dan Epstein , author of the lively cultural history, Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s (Thomas Dunne Books). Marilyn & Fritz Peterson, Susanne & Mike Kekich – CLICK TO ...
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• Stephen Curry makes cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated

  
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  Stephen Curry set the record for threes in an NBA season with 272, and has also set a record for threes in his first seven playoff games with 29. Numbers aside, he has thrilled audiences here and across the country with his shooting prowess and graceful floor game so often throughout the second half of the season and ...
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• Oakland Athletics Run into Scalding Hot Cleveland Indians

  
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  Debby Wong-USA TODAY Sports I don’t know if I would consider myself a fan of the Oakland Athletics as far as being literally a fanatical cheerful supporter, but I most certainly am a fan of the way they play the game. Having paid attention a little more of late, it seems that he Athletics played extremely well ...
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• Hiroyuki Nakajima Doing Well in Rehab Stint for Oakland Athletics

  
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  Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports Hiroyuki Nakajima   of the  Oakland Athletics   is still recovering from a hamstring injury suffered late in Spring Training — but the good news is that his rehab work is going well. On Friday, in his first game with Triple-A Sacramento, he went 2-4 with an RBI double. After ...
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