The Oakland Athletics routed the first-placed Philadelphia Phillies 18-3 on Sunday.
PHILADELPHIA -- Lawrence Butler hit three home runs, Brent Rooker and Seth Brown each had two homers, and the Oakland Athletics routed the first-placed Philadelphia Phillies 18-3 on Sunday.Butler had six RBIs. Rooker tied his career high with five RBIs for Oakland, which entered with the fourth-fewest wins in baseball and trailing Seattle by 16 games in the AL West. The Athletics' eight home runs were estimated at a combined 3,340 feet.
The last of the trio went 449 feet into the second deck in right-center field.'I wanted to put the barrel on the ball,' Butler said. 'I got it how I wanted to get it, and it went pretty far.'It was the first time he'd ever hit three homers in a game at any level.'That was a pretty cool moment,' he said.Rooker completed a red-hot three games in Philadelphia in which he went 7 for 12 with a double, three homers and seven RBIs.
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