Rooker’s clutch doubles, strong pitching win it for Oakland in extras
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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...

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