Brent Rooker homered and drove in three runs and Zack Gelof homered and scored three times to help the Oakland Athletics to an 11-3 win against the Colorado Rockies in the second game of their three-game series on Saturday night in Denver.
Seth Brown had three hits and two RBIs, Tyler Soderstrom delivered two hits and an RBI and Ramon Laureano contributed two RBIs for Oakland, which will try for its second sweep of the season on Sunday.
Rockies starter Chris Flexen had six walks, a hit batter and a run-scoring wild pitch in 3 2/3 innings. He was tagged for six runs and four hits, two of which left the park. Gelof then went deep to make it 4-0. After a hit batter, Rooker launched a long home run to left-center field for a 6-0 lead.
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