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 Garcia lined a bases-loaded single to center off reliever Luke
Gregerson (4-4) to make a winner of Zach Putnam (5-3) after Chris
Bassitt gave up one run on five hits in his second major-league
start. Jake Petricka worked a perfect ninth to record his 12th save
while Adam Eaton had a pair of hits and scored the winning run.
The Athletics wasted seven scoreless innings by Jeff Samardzija, who
permitted six hits and struck out six, and saw their lead for the
top American League wild card whittled to 1 1/2 games over Detroit.
Adam Dunn supplied Oakland's lone run with an RBI single
The Athletics snapped the scoreless deadlock in the top of the
fourth when Crisp reached on a leadoff single and advanced to third
on a walk and a double-play grounder. That brought up Dunn, who
bounced a grounder past third baseman Conor Gillaspie for his sixth
RBI in eight games since the White Sox traded him to Oakland.
Carlos Sanchez reached on an infield single to lead off the eighth
against Gregerson, who induced a grounder from Adam Eaton, only to
see first baseman Nate Freiman throw it into left field on an
attempted force at second. Gregerson came back to strike out Alexei
Ramirez and Jose Abreu before getting behind Gillaspie 2-0 and
intentionally walking him to set up Garcia's heroics.
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GAME NOTEBOOK: Samardzija pitched at least seven innings for the
fourth consecutive start and has allowed only one run in 19 career
innings at U.S. Cellular Field. ... Athletics manager Bob Melvin
said CF Craig Gentry was feeling better one day after sustaining a
concussion while C John Jaso was sent back to Oakland after seeing a
concussion specialist in Pittsburgh who did not give him clearance
to resume baseball activities. ... Retiring White Sox 1B/DH Paul
Konerko, sidelined by a fractured sesamoid bone in his left hand,
plans to swing a bat over the weekend with the hope of returning
before the end of the season.
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