Oakland Athletics’ Stephen Piscotty (25) celebrates after hitting a grand slam off San Francisco Giants’ Trevor Gott in the ninth inning of a baseball game, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

By Jeremiah Salmonson

The Oakland A’s Stephen Piscotty played heroics with a ninth inning tying home run after the San Francisco Giants held a 6-0 lead and watched it collapsed after the A’s scored five runs to tie the game up 7-7 thanks to Piscotty’s grand slam.

The A’s would go onto win it 8-7 after Mark Canha hit a fly to right fielder Hunter Pence for a sacrafice to score Matt Chapman from third for the game winner. Oakland A’s starter Frankie Montas was scheduled for the start but was scratched for replacement starter Jesus Luzardo who get scalded when the Giants scored a run in the first followed by three runs in the second and two in the third to take a 6-0 lead early in the game.

Luzardo lasted just 3.1 innings surrendering nine hits and six earned runs the Giant picked up their seventh run in the eighth inning when Mike Yastrzemski belted a solo home run for 394 feet to center left to give the Giants a two run lead. Yastrzemski’s home run was off A’s releiver TJ McFarland.

With the A’s trailing by five runs going to the top of the ninth 7-2 the A’s Matt Olson slugged a home run to center to make it 7-3 off Giants reliever Trevor Gott. Gott than loaded the bases with Khris Davis, Robbie Grossman, Mark Canha on board Piscotty went deep 365 feet to left field and the A’s tied the ball game at 7-7. Later to win it in the tenth on a sac fly by Canha scoring Chapman.

Winning pitcher for the A’s Joakim Soria now 2-0 and an ERA 0.00, losing pitcher for the Giants Jarlin Garcia 0-1 ERA 0.00.

Saturday night’s starters at Oracle Park for the Oakland A’s Frankie Montas (2-1 ERA 1.57) who suffered upper back tightness on Friday night will start on Saturday and for the Giants Kevin Gausman (0-1 ERA 4.05). Gausman last pitched Sunday Aug 9th against the Dodgers in LA and got a quality start of 6.1 innings of one run baseball. First pitch tonight 4:07pm