By Matthew T.F. Harrington

AP photo: Cleveland’s Carlos Santana celebrates after going deep on Oakland A’s pitcher Kendall Graveman in the sixth inning as plate umpire Scott Barry watches in Cleveland on Friday night

The Oakland Athletics entered play Friday night as one of the hottest teams in the American League, going 9-4 since the All-Star break. Their hot run was derailed Friday night in Cleveland after the Indians (58-42) rallied from a 3-1 deficit for a 5-3 victory at Progressive Field, scoring four runs in the seventh inning.

Kendall Graveman (7-7, 4.15 ERA) appeared on the verge of another solid outing after allowing only one run over the first six innings, but he and Mark Rzepcynski failed to quell an Indians rally. Josh Reddick, rumored to be on the move at the trade deadline, went deep back-to-back with Khris Davis, but the A’s (47-56) couldn’t scratch a run off the Tribe bullpen.

Billy Butler singled home the first run of the game on a two-out hit that plated Reddick. Reddick reached base earlier to open the inning on a throwing error by Mike Napoli. Reddick (8^th homer of the season) and Davis (26^th) hit their consecutive dingers to open the sixth inning.

Bauer bounced back to strike Stephen Vogt out but issued a walk to Billy Butler and coughed up a Yonder Alonso single before making way for former Athletic Dan Otero. Otero induced a flyout from Marcus Semien then forced Ryon Healey to bounce out to end the inning.

Graveman opened the sixth inning by surrendering a homer to Cleveland’s unconventional leadoff hitter, Carlos Santana. He’d allow a Francisco Lindor walk but escape the inning without any further damage.

Cody Anderson (2-4 7.09 ERA) pitched the top of the seventh, winding up the winner thanks to the Cleveland comeback in the bottom half of the frame. Lonnie Chisenhall popped out to open the inning, but Rajai Davis reached on an error by Marcus Semien. Rookie Tyler Naquin singled to advance Davis to second, then pinch-hitter Abraham Almonte drove him in with a base hit, chasing Graveman in the process.

Santana drew a walk off the newly inserted Rzepcynski, then Jason Kipnis knocked in Naquin to tie the game with a single of his own. Ryan Dull, the baserunner-stranding specialist, replaced the lefty with one out and the bases loaded. He uncorked a wild pitch to bring home a run and surrendered another on a Lindor sacrifice fly for a 5-3 A’s deficit. He would escape the inning without any further damage.

Neither pen would be scored on for the rest of the contest, with Cody Allen working his way around two baserunners and one out for his 20^th save of the season.

Saturday the A’s send Dillon Overton to the mound for his fourth career major league start. The Indians send Josh Tomlin to the hill to try to take game two of three.