By Kahlil Najar

ARLINGTON – A day after beating Yu Darvish, the Oakland A’s beat the Rangers other ace Martin Perez 9-3. Derek Norris went 2 for 5 with 3 RBI and Yoenis Cespedes appeared to be feeling a lot better as he crossed the plate three times.

The A’s got on the board first when Derek Norris smacked his fourth double of the year and drove in Coco Crisp who had doubled to lead off the game and Cesepedes who had ben walked right before he got to the plate. Josh Reddick added to the A’s lead in the top of the second when he drove in Craig Gentry from third on a ground out to Prince Fielder.The A’s then made it a 4-0 game when Norris hit his second double of the night and drove in Cespedes for his second run of the night.

The Rangers finally erased the zero from their scoreboard when Alex Rios hit a sharp fly ball double to center field and drove in Adrian Beltre to make it 4-1 after four innings. The A’s then added five runs in the top of the fifth with two bases loaded walks, a single from Reddick that scored Cesepedes and Callaspo and a wild pitch from the Rangers Jason Frasor that scored Brandon Moss who was at third to make it a 9-1 game.

The Rangers were only able to muster up two runs in the bottom of the fifth and closed the scoring on the game for a 9-3 win for Oakland.

A’s pitcher Scott Kazmir is now an impressive 4-0 and lasted five innings and only surrendered three runs and struck out four. Cook, Abad and Doolittle finished off the last four innings and only gave up one hit and struck out five.

The A’s and Rangers square off again on Wednesday in Arlington when the A’s send up Jesse Chavez against Robbie Ross Jr.