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 Second baseman Chris Owings and pinch-hitter Aaron Hill hit
back-to-back doubles off Sonny Gray to break a 2-2 tie leading off
the seventh and center fielder A.J. Pollock singled off
switch-pitcher Pat Venditte for a 4-2 lead to bring up Goldschmidt.
Goldschmidt's homer, his 26th of the season, hit the base of the
video scoreboard in center field and was estimated at 466 feet. He
hit a 471-foot homer on Wednesday. He leads the National League with
96 RBIs.
Oakland third baseman Brett Lawrie hit a two-run homer estimated at
470 feet off David Hernandez in the ninth before Brad Ziegler
entered to pick up his 24th save of the season and 22nd straight.
Gray (12-6) gave up four runs (two earned) in 6 1/3 innings,
striking out five and walking two. He has lost two straight
decisions for the second time this season.
Right-hander Randall Delgado (5-3) pitched the seventh for the
Diamondbacks (63-65).
Center fielder Billy Burns and first baseman Mark Canha had RBI
doubles in the second for Oakland (56-74), which has lost three in a
row and five of seven.
A's shortstop Marcus Semien had two doubles and scored a run.
Trailing 2-0, Arizona tied the score with two unearned runs in the
sixth. Right fielder Ender Inciarte walked to open the inning and
took second on a passed ball. Gray struck out Goldschmidt, but
catcher Stephen Vogt mishandled the pitch for another passed ball to
put runners on first and third.
Left fielder David Peralta doubled to drive in one run and catcher
Welington Castillo's foul sacrifice fly tied the score at 2.
Arizona right-hander Chase Anderson gave up two runs and five hits
in six innings. He struck out three and got 12 ground-ball outs.
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Shortstop Marcus Semien hit his first double with out in the third
inning, took third on Gray's groundout to second base and scored on
Burns' single down the left-field line.
Arizona had three baserunners in the first five innings. Lamb
singled in the second and fifth and Peralta walked with two outs in
the fourth.
The Diamondbacks got a runner to third base with two outs in the
fifth after second baseman Brett Lawrie's throwing error, but Gray
escaped the inning. The error was Oakland's 103rd of the season, the
most in the majors.
NOTES: First-year Arizona manager Chip Hale spent six seasons with
A's manager Bob Melvin, as the third base/infield coach in Arizona
from 2007 to 2009 and as bench coach in Oakland from 2012-14. The
two drove to the park together Friday. ... Arizona SS Nick Ahmed hit
ninth in the order for the 10th time this season, the first time
since Aug. 2. RHP Chase Anderson hit eighth. Hale has hit a position
player ninth 14 times this season. ... Oakland will play without a
DH in its last interleague road series of the season. A's pitchers
were hitting .082 since the inception of interleague play in 1997,
the lowest batting average in the majors.
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