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Adrian Beltre and Mitch Moreland each crushed solo home runs in the 10th inning and Joe Nathan survived a shaky bottom half to help the Texas Rangers down the Oakland Athletics, 6-5, in the middle test of a three-game series between the AL West rivals.Beltre got the green light on a 3-0 count and narrowly cleared the fence in left-center, and Moreland came up two batters later and launched his second of the game -- a blast to straightaway center for his ninth home run of the season and sixth already this month."You gotta throw a strike there and good call on their side...3-0 swing and Beltre hits a homer," A's manager Bob Melvin said of the pitch to Beltre. "Then Moreland comes, who's been swinging the bat pretty well, hits another one."After giving up an RBI single to Seth Smith, Nathan struck out Daric Barton and grounded out pinch-hitter Eric Sogard to leave the bases loaded and pick up his 12th save of the season.Moreland had a two-run homer earlier in the game, Beltre had three hi...
Aaron Harang would rather forget his first career start against his former Oakland team.A career-high eight walks, a whopping 105 pitches in 3 2-3 innings, a three-r...
The Oakland Raiders overcame another injury to running back Darren McFadden and a record-setting performance by Doug Martin to put the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the br...
A Giant dose of small ball, and suddenly San Francisco finds itself in a most unique position -- way ahead in a postseason series.Madison Bumgarner shut down the Det...
Long ball one night, a Giant dose of small ball the next.Two wins in two games and suddenly San Francisco doesn't need to dig itself out of a postseason hole for a c...
The Detroit Tigers were three outs away from heading back to the American League Championship Series.Instead they're going to have to return to the Oakland Coliseum ...
There are some common themes for the beaten down, stumbling Boston Red Sox lately.Their starting pitchers take a pounding early and the hitters are left trying to pl...
Brandon McCarthy left in the fourth inning against the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday after a hard line drive off the bat of Erick Aybar hit Oakland's opening-day s...
Torii Hunter drove in three runs and the Los Angeles Angels completed a three-game sweep at Oakland by rolling to a 7-1 victory after Athletics pitcher Brandon McCar...
Boston manager Bobby Valentine insisted he wasn't serious Wednesday when he threatened to punch a talk-show host in the mouth.Hours later, his Red Sox put up little ...
Sunday and Monday weren't exactly banner days for the NFL, with the league deservedly placed on the firing line after its reckless and misguided choice to use replac...
Jarrod Parker's best start in more than two weeks couldn't prevent the suddenly punchless Athletics from dropping their second straight game.Now Oakland's slim lead ...
Zack Greinke pitched seven sharp innings to win his third consecutive start and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Oakland Athletics 6-1 on Tuesday night.Kendrys Morale...
Police say a man fell from the upper deck at Oakland Coliseum during Thursday's Raiders-Broncos game and is in serious condition at a hospital.Oakland police Officer...
Running back Darren McFadden will miss his fourth straight game with a sprained right ankle for the Oakland Raiders, while third-string quarterback Terrelle Pryor wi...
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The California Highway Patrol is trying to locate a group of drivers who briefly shut down part of a San Francisco Bay area freeway while they performed stunts in th...
The Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics begin the United States leg of their schedules this evening when the American League West rivals start a two-game set at t...
After the Royals took a 4-3 lead in the top of the 12th, the A's scored two runs in the bottom of the frame without recording a hit to take a 5-4 decision over Kansa...
Tennis legend Billie Jean King on the impact of Title IX for women, not only in sports but in education and business.