Leading Late, A's Can't Hold On

Oakland succumbs late, drops tough one to Seattle.

The A's treated their fans to some bonus baseball last night, but the Mariners treated those fans less kindly, defeating their team 6-4 in 10 innings, Brett Anderson gave up 2 runs on 8 hits over 7 innings, but did not factor into the decision, though he does get his first quailty start. Closer Andrew Bailey was rocked out of the bullpen giving up 2 runs and take the loss. Jack Cust sparked the offense, belting a solo home run and collecting 2 hits in 4 trips.

Last game of the series with Dallas Braden (0-0, 0.00) and Jason Vargas(0-0, 0.00) projected to start at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.

MLB Scoreboard - Seattle Mariners (1-1) at Oakland Athletics (1-1)

April 7, 2010	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	EXTRAS	R	H	E
Seattle Mariners	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	2	6	15	1
Oakland Athletics	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	11	2
WIN: Brandon League (1-0) LOSS: Andrew Bailey (0-1)

Scoring Summary

			SEA	OAK
SEA	1st	sweeney RBI Double	0	1
SEA	2nd	Pennington sac-fly	0	2
SEA	3rd	suzuki score on wild pitch	0	3
SEA	6th	Bradley Home-run	1	3
SEA	8th	Gutierrez RBI single	2	3
SEA	8th	Bradley RBI single	3	3
SEA	8th	Kotchman RBI single	4	3
SEA	9th	Cust Home-run	4	4
SEA	10th	Lopez RBI Double	5	4
SEA	10th	Bradley RBI single	6	4

Seattle Mariners

HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Ichiro, RF	5	1	2	0	0	0	.308
Chone Figgins, 2B	5	1	1	0	0	0	.286
Franklin Gutierrez, CF	5	1	2	1	0	1	.429
Jose Lopez, 3B	5	2	2	1	0	1	.357
Milton Bradley, LF	5	1	3	3	0	0	.357
Casey Kotchman, 1B	5	0	3	1	0	0	.457
Rob Johnson, DH	3	0	0	0	0	1	.500
Moore, C	4	0	1	0	0	0	.250
Jack Wilson, ss	4	0	1	0	0	0	.167
TOTALS	41	6	15	6	0	3
BATTING: 2B: Ichiro (2), Lopez (1), Kotchman (2) HR: Bradley (1) RBI: Gurierrez (2), Bradley 3 (5), Lopez (4), Kotchman (1) HBP: Johnson GIDP: Figgins 2, Wilson, Johnson
BASERUNNING: SB: Figgins (3) CS: Bradley (1)
FIELDING: E: Wilson (1)

Seattle Mariners

PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Rowland-smith	6.0	7	3	3	0	3	4.50
White	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	10.80
Texeira	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0.00
Aardsma	0.1	2	1	1	0	1	27.00
League (W, 1-0)	1.2	1	0	0	0	1	3.38
TOTALS	10.0	11	4	4	0	5
PITCHING: WP: Rowland-smith 2 (2)

Oakland Athletics

HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Coco Crisp, CF	5	1	2	0	0	0	.500
Daric Barton, 1B	5	0	0	0	0	1	.154
Ryan Sweeney, LF	5	0	2	1	0	0	.357
Kurt Suzuki, C	5	1	1	0	0	0	.231
Jack Cust, DH	4	1	2	1	0	0	.385
Kevin Kouzmanoff, 3B	4	1	2	0	0	2	.364
Rajai Davis, RF	4	0	1	0	0	1	.200
Mark Ellis, 2B	4	0	1	0	0	0	.200
Cliff Pennington, ss	3	0	0	1	0	1	.125
TOTALS	39	4	11	3	0	5
BATTING: 2B: sweeney (1) HR: Cust (1) RBI: Cust (3), sweeney (1), Pennington (2) SF: Pennington GIDP: sweeney
BASERUNNING: SB: Davis (2), Crisp (1)
FIELDING: E: Kouzmanoff (1), Pennington (1)

Oakland Athletics

PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Brett Anderson	7.0	8	2	2	0	3	2.57
Breslow (Bs, 1)	0.1	4	2	2	0	0	54.00
Andrew Bailey (L, 0-1)	2.2	3	2	2	0	0	4.91
TOTALS	10.0	15	6	6	0	3

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