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By Titus Wilkinson (@TitusWisme)

OAKLAND- After dropping the first game the A’s looked to rebound against a tough Orioles team Saturday evening.

On the mound for the Orioles was lefty Cade Povich who was sporting a 1-2 record with a 4.05 era. For Oakland it was right-hander Luis Medina starting with a 1-3 record and 4.80 era.

The A’s offense heading into this game had been sputtering with a .182 batting average over their last six games and had a rough outing yesterday against these same Orioles.

Today ended up being quite the different story as Oakland offensively had one of its best games all season.

It all started with a three-run blast from Brent Rooker who launched one 414 feet getting his 18th hr of the season.

After a quiet second from the Orioles the A’s had one of their best offensive innings of the season.

Once again the offense was started with a three-run blast but this time it came off the bat of Max Schuemann who got his fifth of the campaign.

Povich gave up another two hits after that forcing Orioles manager to have to go to his bullpen as he brought in right-hander Dillon Tate.

Tate wouldn’t fair much better as the A’s proceeded to load the bases followed up by a single from Shea Langeliers making it 7-0.

Zack Gelof then doubled making it officially a laugher with the score now 9-0. Brett Harris singled as well before the inning was out tacking on another run just for the little extra cherry on top.

The following inning Baltimore looked like they might try to make things interesting as they got the bases loaded with nobody out. However Medina was able to pull through getting the next three batters out in quick succession.

With Tate still on the mound the punishment continued as Langeliers launched an absolute nuke to left field. The two-run homer was Langeliers 17th of the season making it a 12-0 ball game.

The Orioles managed to sneak in a run in the fourth as Austin Hays got Jordan Westburg home on a sacrifice fly.

Baltimore made another pitching change in the fourth as left-hander Cole Irvin came into replace Tate.

Once again the A’s ate up another Orioles pitcher as Tyler Nevin popped one over the left center field wall getting his sixth homer of the season on a solo shot. Andujar then made it 14-1 on a single to left field.

Medina would be replaced in the sixth by left-hander Jack O’Loughlin who has only pitched seven innings so far this season but has yet to give up a run. Luis finished the game pitching five innings giving up six hits and only one earned run with three K’s.

The sixth inning saw more domination from the A’s as Andujar doubled brining home two runs making it 16-1. Rooker then almost homered but his hit was caught by the left fielder but the hit was deep enough to get another run home.

Baltimore would gets it’s first long ball of the game off the bat of Adley Rutschman as the all-star got his 16th homer of the season making the score 17-4.

In the eighth the Orioles managed to tack on a few more runs making it 17-6 but the A’s followed it up with a homer from Kyle McCann making it 19-6.

The last run of the game came off the bat of Ryan Mountcastle who homered making it 19-8 but the rally ended there.

Medina secured the win in today’s game while Povich took the loss.

While everyone had a great game for the A’s Brent Rooker not surprisingly was the standout as he had three hits in four at bats with four RBI’s.

The last time the A’s put up double digits against a team this season was on June 1st when they beat the Braves 11-9.

The A’s will look to have another dominant performance when they close out the series against the Orioles tomorrow at 1:07 p.m. The announced starters for tomorrow’s game are Mitch Spence for the A’s and Grayson Rodriguez for the Orioles.