By Kahlil Najar

Oakland – Tommy Milone (1-3) grabbed his first win of the year after he pitched eight scoreless innings and only giving up two hits. Milone also struck out seven different batters in the Nationals lineup. John Jaso, Brandon Moss and Yoenis Cespedes all hit homers tonight which contributed for five of the seven runs the A’s put up tonight.

On his performance tonight Milone said “I think just the energy level, I felt lifted. Just grab the ball, get on the mound and throw it.”

“He was awesome. That’s pretty much all I got,” said Moss. “We’ve definitely seen that all before from him.”

The A’s got on the board in the bottom of the first when Josh Donaldson was driven home on a shard ground ball single to right field from Brandon Moss. In the bottom of the third, Jaso hit his second homer of the year to center field and gave the A’s a 2-0 lead. In the fourth, the A’s added a pair of runs after Doug Fister threw a wild pitch and scored Cespedes who was waiting on third. The second run came on a single from Eric Sogard who scored Josh Reddick and made it a 4-0 lead.

The A’s continued their scoring in the bottom of the fifth when Moss hit a two run homer to center field and Cespedes followed up right behind him with his seventh dinger of the year. Derek Norris added one more run in the bottom of the seventh and gave the A’s the 8-0 victory. Fernando Rodriguez came in for relief of Milone and pitched on inning and only surrendered one hit.

The A’s had a whopping 12 hits while the Nationals had a game to forget as they had as many errors as they did hits tonight.

The A’s send Sonny Gray to the mound tomorrow against Tanner Roark, game time 6:05 pm PST.