A’s win cakewalk over Giants behind Gossett, Healy


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DATE: Aug. 4, 2017, 6:29 a.m.

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  1. Moore permitted four keeps running in five innings, including a two-run homer by Ryon Healy. Gossett made his tenth major class begin his best, holding the Giants to three hits and a keep running in seven innings.
  2. Gossett won for the second time in three begins. Moore is winless since June 20.
  3. The A's have taken two of three in the yearly home-and-home between the Bay Area groups with one amusement to go Thursday night at AT&T Park.
  4. Moore came back to the hill after what had been a decent begin against the Dodgers that he'd demolished by strolling the leadoff hitter in the seventh inning of a diversion the Giants drove 4-2.
  5. After a promising opening against Oakland, a 1-2-3 first inning, Moore lost the strike zone in the second to help the A's take a 2-0 lead. Likewise key was Denard Span's failure to get a Matt Chapman twofold finished his head.
  6. After a Healy single and a stroll to Chad Pinder, Chapman hit that RBI twofold that Span could have gotten. Pinder later scored on a twofold make a move.
  7. Moore appeared to right himself in the third, until the point when he strolled Jed Lowrie and Healy homered for a 4-0 A's lead, his twentieth and first since June 28, 86 at-bats back. Moore teed one up, a 92-mph, belt-high fastball.
  8. Hernandez flaunted his barrier in Oakland on Tuesday night with a long run and strike catch of a Jaycob Brugman drive to the inside field divider.
  9. The staff's unique intuition may have included less playing time for Hunter Pence, who was stuck in a groundball groove. In any case, he hit a three-keep running inverse field homer in Oakland on Tuesday night and hit two balls hard Wednesday, including a fifth-inning twofold for the Giants' initially hit.
  10. Pence hit a rifle shot down the left-field line after Brandon Crawford's leadoff walk. The chance to cut into a 4-0 shortage yielded only one run, on Hernandez's fielder's choice, when Pinder came to behind him at the track in left field to get Miguel Gomez's drive for the third out.
  11. The An's additional two keeps running in the seventh against Albert Suarez, the key hit Lowrie's second twofold. Pinder, in the wake of making his check in the field, got another run home in the inning with his second single.

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