Oakland A’s Lawrence Butler (4) congratulates Brent Rooker (25) after Rooker’s two run homer in the top of the fifth inning against the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park in San Francisco (Oakland A’s X photo)

On the Oakland A’s podcast with Augie Mesenburg:

#1 The old saying goes good pitching beats good hitting and the way that Oakland A’s (45-64) starter JP Sears pitched against the San Francisco Giants (53-56) pitching shutout ball through seven innings, allowing three hits and striking out nine hitters.

#2 In the top of the second and third innings the A’s were able to scratch out a run in each inning. In the top of the second inning Daz Cameron belted his fifth home run of the season and in the third inning Lawrence Butler homered for his 12th of the year for a 2-0 A’s lead.

#3 The A’s added two more runs in the top of the fifth inning with Brent Rooker hitting a two run homer to left center field for his 26th making it 4-0 and JJ Bleday hit a right field home run for his 14th of the season making it 5-0.

#4 Towards the end of the game the Giants trailing 5-0 made strides to get back in it but fell short but got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the eighth when Derrick Hill hit a ground out to third allowing Marco Luciano to score and Patrick Bailey hit an RBI single to right field in the bottom of the ninth but the Giants would end up short by three runs 5-2.

#5 A’s and Giants conclude this brief two game set on Wednesday night first pitch slated for 6:45pm PT former Giants RHP Ross Stripling (2-9, ERA 6.02) goes against the A’s RHP Logan Webb (7-8, ERA 3.72). Augie how do you see this match up.

Augie Mesenburg is a podcast contributor for http://www.sportsradioservice.com and is a reporter for 1080 KWAI Honolulu