Oakland – ramón laureano and seth brown homered, and left-hander cole irvin continued his string of solid starts offevolved through permitting one earned run and hanging out 8 in seven innings as the a’s hung on to beat the texas rangers 5-four before 6,620 fans at the coliseum on friday night time.
The a’s (34-sixty two) have won of 3 in view that returning from the all-big name destroy and are 9-9 in july, a big improvement from a 5-win june.
Irvin (5-7) allowed 3 hits and stepped forward to three-1 with a 1.Sixty seven era in his remaining four starts offevolved. He finished one strikeout brief of matching his unmarried-game profession excessive.
Irvin turned a four-1 lead over to the bullpen after walking leody taveras to lead off the 8th and the a’s led five-2 going into the 9th inning, but right-hander lou trivino, who has taken back the nearer obligations with dany jiménez injured, turned into simplest capable of get the primary two outs in the inning and departed the sport with the ability tying run on 0.33 base. The rangers scored two times off trevino, sparked by a solo domestic run by nathaniel lowe, and loaded the bases earlier than a.J. Puk retired former a’s shortstop marcus semien on a ground out to end the game. It become puk’s first profession save.
Vimael machín added skye bolt home on ground rule double to offer the a’s the 1-0 lead inside the second inning. Adolis garcia tied the sport for the rangers with the aid of hitting a unmarried to left subject that scored corey seager within the fourth inning.
The tie changed into short-lived as in the fifth inning laureano hit a complete-rely fastball from spencer howard for an contrary-discipline homer, his 10th of the season, to put the a’s up 2-1. Brown cushioned the lead two-run domestic run, his twelfth of the season.
Semien cut texas’ deficit to 2 runs after singling in leody taveras within the eighth inning, however stephen vogt followed the house 1/2 of the inning by way of hitting a pinch-hit rbi single to make it five-2.
The a’s and rangers will play the second one sport of the collection day after today at 6:40 p.M. The a’s will ship james kaprielian, even as taylor hearn will start for the rangers.