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Willi Castro doubled home Dawel Lugo with the tiebreaking run in the top of the 11th inning Friday night, allowing the visiting Detroit Tigers to avoid a two-loss night with a 5-4 victory over the Oakland Athletics. The win came following a 7-3 A's win in the completion of a suspended game, with three relievers combining to shut out the Tigers over three innings more than three months after rain had halted a matchup Oakland was leading in the seventh inning at Detroit. The A's led the regularly scheduled game 4-0, but the Tigers forced extra innings with two late two-run rallies before pushing across the difference-maker against the seventh Oakland pitcher, Paul Blackburn (0-2), in the 11th. Continue to Article

September 07, 2019 2:25:am EST

Chad Pinder homered, Mike Fiers earned his fourth victory or his 14th, however you want to look at it, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Detroit Tigers 7-3 on Friday night in a game that was suspended on May 19 because of the weather. "There were a lot of oddities," A's manager Bob Melvin said. Willi Castro hit a go-ahead double in the top of the 11th as the Tigers rallied from a four-run deficit to snap Oakland's three-game winning streak with a 5-4 victory in the regularly scheduled matchup. Continue to Article

September 07, 2019 2:20:am EST

Christian Yelich smacked his 44th home run of the season and four pitchers combined on a three-hitter to lift the host Milwaukee Brewers to a 7-1 victory against the Chicago Cubs on Friday night. Brewers right-hander Zach Davies scattered one run and three hits with one walk and four strikeouts in five innings to earn the victory. Davies (9-7) yielded to Brent Suter, Junior Guerra and Ray Black, who teamed for four innings of no-hit, one-walk, three-strikeout relief. Continue to Article

September 07, 2019 1:48:am EST

The Oakland Athletics activated center fielder Ramon Laureano from the 10-day injured list on Friday. The 25-year-old missed five-plus weeks with a stress reaction in his right shin. Before going on the injured list July 31, Laureano told reporters the shin had bothered him since the team's season-opening series against the Seattle Mariners in March when the two games were played on turf in the Tokyo Dome. Continue to Article

September 06, 2019 5:25:pm EST

Reynaldo Lopez allowed one hit and struck out 11 en route to recording his first career complete game as the visiting Chicago White Sox breezed to a 7-1 win over the Cleveland Indians on Thursday afternoon. Welington Castillo belted a two-run homer to highlight his three-hit, three-RBI performance and Adam Engel and Yolmer Sanchez each drove in a pair for the White Sox, who salvaged a split of their four-game series. Kevin Plawecki had an RBI double with two outs in the second inning for the Indians, who have lost five of their last seven games overall and nine of the 16 meetings with Chicago this season. Continue to Article

September 05, 2019 4:10:pm EST

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