Closer Craig Kimbrel blew his second save in as many opportunities and departed with back tightness on Sunday as the Oakland Athletics rallied to a 7-6, series-deciding victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
— Closer Craig Kimbrel blew his second save in as many opportunities and departed with back tightness on Sunday as the Oakland Athletics rallied to a 7-6, series-deciding victory over thesaid postgame of the nine-time All-Star. “We’ll see. I think we’ve been playing pretty good baseball, we’ve just had a couple unfortunate kind of endings this series.”
Two nights after he threw only eight of 24 pitches for strikes, Kimbrel threw six straight balls to open his outing, the fifth of which prompted the first visit fromto let him continue the at-bat against Kyle McCann, who drove Kimbrel’s 3-2 offering into the seats next to the out-of-town scoreboard in right center.Seth Brown hit his second homer and Brent Rooker singled in two runs off O’s starter Albert Suarez in Oakland’s highest-scoring showing during a 10-game road trip.
Tyler Nevin connected off Danny Coulombe in the seventh to close Oakland’s deficit to one run, before McCann’s shot helped the A’s close their trip with four wins. Kyle Muller retired seven of eight batters he faced in relief, and Austin Adams and T.J. MacFarland bridged the gap to Lucas Erceg, who threw a scoreless ninth for his first career save.
“Kyle’s been throwing the ball really well,” said A’s manager Mark Kotsay. “And without that type of performance from Kyle today, we wouldn’t have had that type of opportunity.”runs came off A’s starter Paul Blackburn, who worked only four innings in his shortest outing of the season.begin a four-game series against the Yankees on Monday with RHP Grayson Rodriguez trying to rebound from his roughest outing of 2024, a seven-run, 4 1/3-inning loss at the Angels.
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