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Brent Rooker hits go-ahead double in A's extra inning win
BALTIMORE -- So far this season, no team has been more reliant on the home run than the A’s. Entering Friday’s opener against the Orioles, more than half of the A’s runs have come via the long ball, by far the most in baseball. But the offense, as a whole,
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Brent Rooker hits a go-ahead double in the 10th to carry the Athletics past the Orioles 3-2
By DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Brent Rooker doubled in the tiebreaking run in the 10th inning to cap a late comeback that carried the Oakland Athletics past the Baltimore Orioles 3-2 on Friday night. After Oakland rallied from a 2-1 deficit to pull even in the ninth against Orioles closer Craig Kimbrel,
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Rooker’s clutch doubles, strong pitching win it for Oakland in extras
The Oakland Athletics don’t seem to have the capacity to score more than 3 runs in a game but it hasn’t mattered much with the way the team is pitching. Today, the A’s only needed 4 pitchers in 10 innings to keep the now 16-9 Baltimore Orioles at bay. Starting with a vintage Ross Stripling outing — 5 2⁄3 innings with 2 earned runs, 3 Ks and 0 BBs — and closing with an increasingly vintage dominant inning from Mason Miller, the pitching staff is somehow proving itself to be a huge strength, maybe...