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Oakland A’s podcast with Jerry Feitelberg: A’s rebound take 2 out of 3 from White Sox 3-1; Manaea strikes out 9

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Oakland A’s closer Andrew Chafin (left) shakes hands with catcher Sean Murphy (right) at the conclusion of Thu Sep 9, 2021 game at the Oakland Coliseum with a win over the Chicago White Sox (AP News photo)

On the A’s podcast with Jerry F:

#1 Jerry, after getting swept by the Toronto Blue Jays the Oakland A’s (76-64) turned around and took two out of three from the Chicago White Sox (80-60) winning Thursday afternoon 3-1.

#2 The A’s got great pitching out of starter Sean Manaea went seven innings, five hits, one earned run, a walk, nine strike outs.

#3 Jerry, Manaea had all his pitches working for him on Thursday getting nine strikeouts against a line up as good as the Sox and as good as team like the White Sox that has some pretty smart pitching.

#4 The A’s Josh Harrison got picked off second base in the bottom of the first inning 1-4-5 put out. It’s not often you see a leadoff hitter like Harrison like that.

#5 Jerry, the Texas Rangers might be 30 games out and in last place in the AL West but they are never giving up club they’re won seven out their last ten and have won four straight games going into Friday’s series against the A’s.

Jerry does the A’s podcasts Thursdays at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Manaea goes seven strikes out nine as A’s win 3-1

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Oakland A’s pitcher Sean Manaea walks to the A’s dugout in the seventh inning against the Chicago White Sox at the Ring Central Oakland Coliseum on Thu Sep 9, 2021 (AP News photo)

Chicago 1- 7-1

Oakland 3 -6 – 0

By Lewis Rubman

Thursday September 9, 2021

OAKLAND–The Oakland A’s (76-64) these days are about as changeable as a baby’s bottom. They’ve lost five of their last seven contests even though they broke their four game losing streak with last night’s triumph over the White Sox (80-60).

This afternoon, they came out of the chutel full of piss and vinegar against Chicago’s Reynaldo López with singles by their first two batters, trade deadline additions Josh Harrison and Sterling Marte.

But Harrison got picked off at second, and, although Marte advanced to second on the ensuing rundown, that put the kibosh on Oakland´s first inning threat.

In spite of this dispiriting beginning, the Athletics pulled off a 3-1 win over the South Side Sox behind the very solid pitching of Sean Manaea and a key error by the Sox’s second string catcher. The victory pulled the A’s to within 5-1/2 of Houston for the division lead and a game and a half behind the Yankees for the second wild card spot.

The process started just an inning after the opening frame debacle. Jed Lowrie led off with a double to center, and, after Mark Canha was called out on strikes, scored easily on TonyKemp’s slicing opposite field triple to left. Nonetheless, Kemp died at third, following ground outs from the bats of Sean Murphy and Elvis Andrus.

After a rocky first inning, the A’s Sean Manaea settled down to strike out all three Chicago batsmen he faced in the second, only to cough up Oakland’s lead in the top of the third, when César Hernández doubled off the left field wall and José Abreu brought him home with a single that almost got by a diving Marte in center.

In home third, Chicago catcher Seby Zavala tried to duplicate López´s first inning feat of picking a runner off second. The runner was Marte, who had just pilferred the bag (on a play in which he originally was called out before he was ruled safe after a video review).

It was his big league leading 44th steal of the year. Zebala’s throw went into center field, allowing Marte to score and Olson, who had walked following Marte’s steal of second, to advance to third. Olson lscored on Chapman’s sacrifice foul fly to left, and the two. unearned runs put Oakland up 3-1.

López began gave signs of tiring in the fifth, which he finished having thrown 90 pitches, 59 of which went for strikes. He had given up three runs, of which only one was earned. He’d walked three and struck out two Athletics, and brought his pre-game ERA of 2.08 down to 2.05. Ryan Burr replaced him on the mound to start off the bottom of the sixth. He set the A’s down in order. Aaron Bummer replaced him for the home seventh and did the same.

Manea, too, began to tire in his last frame, the seventh, at about 95 pitch mark, when, with two out, Billy Hamilton walloped a triple to left center. Manea recovered to retire Danny Mendick on a fly to Marte in right center on his 100th and final pitch of the afternoon.

It was the first time since July 22nd that the A’s lefty had completed seven full frames. He allowed only one run on five hits and a walk. Only 40 of his offerings were called balls. Ryan Tepera pitched a perfect bottom of the eighth.

Sergio Romo, back in his role as set-up man, pitched the eighth. He allowed a two out single to Luis Robert, which allowed José Abreu, who, with 103 RBI, was second in the majors in that category, to come to the plate representing the potential tying run. Abreu worked a 3-2 count before grounding out, Chapman to Olson.

Andrew Chafin, fresh from pitching two innings in last night’s game against the Sox, came in to try to close things up in the visitor’s ninth. Things got dicey when Romy González smacked a two out double off the left centerfield wall. But Chafin came through and earned his third save of the year by inducing Billy Hamilton to pop up to Olson in foul territory.

The win went to Manaea. He’s now 9-9, 3.79. López got charged with the tough loss, his second against three wins this year.

Paul Blackburn (0-2, 4.12) will face Glenn Otto (0-0, 1.86) of the Rangers at 6:40 Friday night to start a three game weekend series with Texas.

San Francisco Giants podcast Michael Duca: Newly signed Jewell hopes to get call up; Cueto’s future in question suffering from strained elbow

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San Francisco Giants pitcher Jake Jewell hopes to get off to a great start with his new club after struggling with his old club the Chicago Cubs. Jewell will face his old teammates as the Giants open a three game series against the Cubs Friday afternoon. (photo from mercurynews.com)

On San Francisco Giants podcast with Michael:

#1 Michael the Giants have brought up Jake Jewell, Jewell had struggled with the Chicago Cubs this season with an ERA of 9.90 and appeared in ten games with the Cubs with ten strikeouts and five walks in ten innings.

#2 Jewell joins the Giants but will not be eligible for post season because he missed the post game deadline, Jewell is someone the Giants are hoping to help. He was optioned to Triple A Sacramento do you see him joining the big club before the season is over?

#3 The Giants are maintaining they won the three game series against the Colorado Rockies in Denver and hold a two game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers and visit the Chicago Cubs for a three game series on Friday morning at Wrigley Field. The Giants have won five of their last ten can they hold onto first place for the rest of the way.

#4 The Steven Duggar had himself a ball game on Tuesday against the Rockies with two triples, a double, and three RBIs. Duggar is hitting .223 and seeing the ball well how important has he been contributing at the plate and helping the Giants stay in first place.’

#5 The Cubs are a struggling team they have lost eight of their last ten games and sit in fourth in the NL Central this should be a breeze for the Giants in the upcoming three game series Friday.

Join Michael each week for the San Francisco Giants podcasts at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: 20 Year Memories of 911 and Baseball

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The New York Yankees pay tribute to the victims of 911 at Yankee Stadium on their first home game back since the tragedy (file photo Society for American Baseball Research)

20 Year Memories of 911 – And Baseball

That’s Amaury News and Commentary

By Amaury Pi-González

Refreshing our collective memories: September 11, 2001 game #2 in New York the Oakland Athletics (wild card) were to play the Yankees who easily won their division. Games were canceled on this day because of the 911 attacks. The Yankees lost the first two games in New York, and then they took the next 2 games at Oakland to tie the series, as the series returned to New York where they eliminated the A’s.

That Yankee team later eliminated the Seattle Mariners in the American League Championship Series; Mariners that year won a record 116 games. A few weeks later the World Series took place and the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the New York Yankees.

Prior to moving to the Bay Area, I lived in New York after my US Army Honorable discharge in 1969. I worked for a Stock Brokerage company on Wall Street, although I lived in Queens just a couple of stops on the Flushing blue line from Shea Stadium where the Mets used to call home, I often traveled to the Bronx to see the Yankees at the Stadium.

I cannot forget how many times I had lunch right outside Cortland Street where I used to work just across from where the second tower of the World Trade Center was been build. That area was always busy and very dusty, I could see (when I walked around the construction site) how much water was been pumped from the ground, all the time. Later that summer of 1969 I moved to Northern California.

Move the clock all the way to the year 2001, when terror stopped baseball and the country. A coordinated attack using commercial planes (4 planes) hijacked by suicide-terrorist on the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and one more plane that crashed in an open field in Pennsylvania which was headed to Washington, D.C. Major League games were canceled and for the first time in history, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all civilian air travel in the United States.

We lived through one of the most evil planned attacks in history. No guns were used, not one shot was fired, but Islamic terrorists with box-cutters hijacked US commercial planes filled with gasoline used as suicide bombs.

Move the clock forward again to the year 2021, today, twenty years later. Who can forget? I was broadcasting Giants baseball back then. That early morning I watched on television (like most in the world) the horrific live scenes, as the second plane crashed in one of the towers of the WTC.

Later the third plane crashed in the Pentagon Building. The US was under attack at home, Wall Street (Financial), Pentagon (Military), and Washington D.C. (seat of government). This was (if anything) a declaration of war against the United States.

After and when the attacks happened, baseball, at that time, was the last thing on my mind. I thought like many others, this was the beginning of WWIII, just like when I was a teenager in Miami recently arrived from Cuba I thought it was going to happen during the Cuban missile crisis, the face-off between the US and the Soviet Union, over nuclear missiles in Cuba. These two events provided some of the scariest days I can remember in my life.

This Saturday, September 11, 2021, we remember the many who died (nearly 3,000) on that faithful day including those heroes, crew, and passengers who crashed the fourth plane in a Pennsylvania field, one that was headed with terrorist kidnappers to either the White House or the Capitol Building.

This Saturday many teams and fans will remember 911, for a while many teams (after the attacks) played God Bless America during their regular season games at home. 2021 the New York Yankees are the only remaining team in baseball to regularly play “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch of their home games.

September is always the ‘home stretch’ month in baseball for many teams still in contention, but on September 11, 2001, baseball took a back seat to one of the biggest events in history.

A’s snap four game loss streak win 5-1; A’s pitcher Diekman break in attempt at family home wife and daughter threatened

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Oakland A’s Matt Chapman (right) gets the force on the Chicago White Sox Yasmani Grandal (24) sliding into second and throws to first base to complete a double play in the top of the fourth inning at the Oakland Coliseum on Wed Sep 8, 2021 (AP News photo)

Chicago 1 – 8 – 0

Oakland 5 – 10-1

By Lewis Rubman

Wednesday September 8, 2021

OAKLAND-Tonight’s 5-1 win over the Chicago White Sox snapped the Oakland A’s four game losing streak and kept the their pennant hopes alive for another day. When the game ended, Oakland, at 75-64, trailed Houston by six games in the divisional race and were three games behind the Yankees for the second wild card berth.

The late surging Matt Chapman opened the scoring with his 25th home run of the season, a mighty solo blast on a 80 mph change up off of Chicago’s veteran starter Dallas Keuchel that travelled 402 feet into the left field stands.

Oakland put another run on the board in the fourth when, with one down, Mark Canha ripped a double to left and scored on Yan Gomes’s sharp single to center.

Chicago threatened in the top of the fifth when Leury García led off with an opposite field double on a sharp grounder to left and moved up to third on Brian Goodwin’s line drive single to right. He didn’t score, thanks to a diving attempt by Harrison to snare Goodwin’s liner that prevented García from running full steam ahead to third. Montás got Vaughn out on a caught two strike foul tip, but the Sox made good on their threat with César Hernández´s grounder to first that Olson short-hopped and threw to Gomes at home.

But García beat the throw,which went wildly behind Gomes for a rare E3 that allowed both Goodwin and Hernández to move up a base. Nonetheless, Montás rose to the occasion and retired Luis Robert on a grounder back to the mound and Moncada on a fly to Marte in center. The A’s still led, 2-1.

They added another run in the fifth but ran themselves out of it, which has not recently been an unusual occurence for the green and gold. Andrus led off with a walk and advanced to second on Harrison’s single to left.

After Marte was retired on an infield fly to first, Olson plated Andrus and advanced Harrison to the third. The A’s first baseman got greedy and tried to advance to seond on the throw back to the infield but was put out 7-5-4-3, Vaughn to Moncada to Hernández to Abreu. Chapman struck out to end the inning.

Montás pitched himself out of a pickle of his own making in the top of the six. Abreu reached first on a lead off single to right. Montás then struck out Grandal, but he did it on a wild pitch that allowed Abreu to reach second. The A’s starter responded by striking out Sheets and García to preserve Oakland’s 3-1 advantage.

The Athletics stretched their lead further in the sixth. After a one out single to center by Gomes, Davis flew out to deep center, and Chad Pinder dropped an opposite field triple deep to right, just inside the foul line. That was the end of the line for Keuchel. José Ruiz, his replacement, gave up a single to left by Andrus that drove Pinder home. Pinder´s run closed the book on Keuchel for the night.

His line was 5-2/3 innings pitched, during which he allowed five runs, all of them earned, on eight hits and a walk. Of his 94 offerings, 63 were strikes. Then Ruiz retired Harrison on a fly to warning track in left.

Having thrown 94 pitches, Montás still came out to face Chicago in the seventh. He set the Chisox down to a conga beat, that is, one, two, three, which is what Ruiz did to the A’s in the seventh.

It would be up to the A’s bullpen to keep Montás´s valiant start from going to waste. The 28 year old righty had hurled seven frames and allowed but a single run, earned but just barely, on six hits, two walks, and wild pitch. He struck out seven of the Pale Hose and throwns 105 pitches, 67 for strikes.

Left hander Andrew Chafin replaced him to open the Chicago eighth and kept the conga line moving with another 1-2-3 inning, although Moncada’s fly to left for the second out took Canha well into the warning track.

It was Mike Wright, Jr, who toed the rubber for Chicago in the home eighth, and that was the end of the conga line, thanks to Canha’s lead off single to center. But nothing came of that.

The A’s brain trust elected to stick with Chafin to finish off the Chisox in the ninth. Although they got to him with a pair of singles, Chafin came through, keeping the Chicagoans off the board.

The well-deserved win went to Montás, whose record now is 12-9, 3.57. Keuchel, now 8-9, 5,33 took the loss. There was no save.

Thursday afternoon at 12:37, Chicago righty Reynaldo López (3-1, 2.08) will match his talents against the A’s batters and their left handed probable starter, Sean Manaea (8-9, 3.91) in the series finale.

Break in attempt at Diekman home: A’s pitcher Jake Diekman had a break in attempt as his family was threatened by a 23 year man who threatened to shoot Diekman’s wife Amanda and two year old daughter. Diekman was not home at the time. Diekman and his wife have filed a restraining order against the man who turned out to be a neighbor of Diekman’s.

Diekman was told that the man had a history of mental issues and that the authorities could not hold him and that an order to arrest him could not be served as he has right under being a mental patient. Diekman said that the justice system is not there to protect him and his family and others in his neighborhood.

Diekman is in touch with MLB security and that something is in the works to have security protect the family at the home from his neighbor as authorities say there is not much they can do to protect the Diekman family.

Diekman this year for the A’s is 3-2 ERA 3.29 in 57 games.

Headline Sports podcast with Jessica Kwong: Guilty pleas by NFL players in fraud case; Jones is prepared for starting job at Patriots

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Former Washington Football Team player Clinton Portis is one of three NFL players who have plead guilty in a fraud case, Porter is facing a maximum of 20 years (file photo from CNN)

On Headline Sports podcast with Jessica:

#1 Former Washington Football Team player Clinton Portis, former Kansas City Chief Tamarick Vanover and former Washington Football Team player Robert McCune all have plead guilty for fraud schemes trying to scam the NFL’s retiree health benefits plan. They submitted claims worth $3 million the Justice Department said. Porter is facing a 20 year maximum sentence, Vanover will be sentenced on January 22 and McCune will be sentenced Jan 6th.

#2 New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones is not surprised that he won the starting job for the Patriots saying “Not really. Like I always say, I prepare to be the starter. I got a chance to get a lot of reps. Nothing really changes.”

#3 Jones also said that he got along with Cam Newton who was released from the team that he was there to help Cam and Cam was there to help him. Jones said he hopes Newton lands somewhere and that he is a great guy.

#4 Jessica turning to baseball, Former St Louis Cardinal and current Los Angeles Dodger Albert Pujols had a memorable evening hitting his career 679th home run against his former team on Tuesday night to a standing ovation. There is little doubt that Pujols will go into the Hall of Fame as a Cardinal when his career is over.

#5 The New York Yankees are slipping they have lost seven of their last ten games and they are now 8.5 games behind first place Tampa Bay. They haven’t been getting the pitching in the loses and were landslided by the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night 8-0, on Tuesday night the Yankees suffered another loss again 5-1 and dropped Wednesday night’s contest 6-3 their just one more game from being swept in a four game series with the Jays.

Join Jessica for the Headlines podcast every other Wednesday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Best in MLB Giants first team to win 90; SF scores 4 in 9th for 7-4 win

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San Francisco Giants closer Jake McGee (left) congratulates right fielder LaMonte Wade Jr (right) following the last out after Wed Sep 8, 2021 game against the Colorado Rockies in Denver (AP News photo)

By Jessica Kwong

The San Francisco Giants (90-50) became the first team in the league to win 90 games this season after beating the Colorado Rockies (63-77) 7-4 on Wednesday to finish a three-game sweep at Coors Field.

LaMonte Wade Jr. and Evan Longoria had two RBIs each within a four-run rally in the ninth inning. Brandon Crawford hit a home run and Brandon Belt logged three hits.

The Rockies led 4-3 when Carlos Estévez walked Buster Posey at the start of the ninth and two singles loaded the bases. Wade singled on a line drive to right fielder Charlie Blackmon, allowing Mauricio Dubon and Thairo Estrada to score and giving the Giants a 5-4 lead.

Crawford said of Wade: “He’s had so many big hits for us this year. Down to our last strike a couple of times and then so many tiebreaker, go-ahead base hits for us. He’s been a huge for us.”

Longoria doubled on a fly ball to center fielder Garrett Hamspon and Belt and Wade scored, boosting the Giants to 7-4.

Giants manager Gabe Kapler said “Longo’s hit was as big as any” since “Estévez is a big challenge.”

“He’s throwing 98 mph bowling balls up there and one of the tougher at-bats for right-handed hitters,” Kapler said of the Rockies pitcher.

Giants starting pitcher Anthony DeSclafani gave up three consecutive singles and had one out in five innings. Left-handed pitcher Jake McGee hit the mound in the ninth inning and earned his 30th save.

Wednesday was the end of 16 straight days of baseball for the Giants, during which they went 10-6.

“We did a nice job through a very difficult stretch of games and (at) some point we’ll look back and really recognize what a grind that was,” Kapler said.

San Francisco (90-50) is first in the NL West, 1.5 games ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Giants went into Wednesday’s game only one game ahead of the defending champions.

The Giants have the day off on Thursday and start a three-game series against the Chicago Cubs on Friday. First pitch is at 11:30 a.m.

A’s lose fourth game in a row 6-3; Sox continue to roll

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The Chicago White Sox Eloy Jimenez slides in for a run as Oakland A’s catcher Yan Gomes puts the tag on too late in the top of the fifth inning at the Oakland Coliseum on Tue Sep 7, 2021 (AP News photo)

Chicago 6 – 15 – 2

Oakland 3 – 6 – 0

By Lewis Rubman

Tuesday September 7, 2021

OAKLAND–The September ’21 Oakland Athletics returned to the Coliseum this evening, singing the words of a W.S. Gilbert song, “A wandering minstrel I / A thing of shreds and patches,” not to mention a non-functioning bullpen and a penchant for leaving runners on base.

Of course, this wasn’t their public position. As Steve Berman reported in Monday’s The Athletic, the team is singing “The Best is Yet to Come.” To which I reply, again appropriating Gilbert’s lyrics from The Mikado,

But as one month you have to live as fellow citizen, This toast with three times three we’ll give: “Long life, Long life to you — Long life to you — Long life to you — till then!”

To put this song book in numerical terms, the A’s awoke this morning with fifteen games left in the regular season. If they were to tie Houston for the division title, they’d need to overcome the Astros’ six game lead. The two teams have exactly six games left on their schedules against each other, three in Oakland, the 24th-26th, and another three in Houston, set for the last three days of the season.

The ‘stros have been slumping recently, but not as badly as the A’s, so there is hope on that front, although Seattle has a slightly better shot than Oakland at the western division gonfalon; they trail Houston by five and a half games with fourteen to go.

The other way the Athletics could make it to post season action would be by qualifying for the wild card crap shoot. They went into today three and a half games behind the Red Sox for the second wild card position and would have to pass both Toronto and Seattle, to attain even that minimal opportunity to reach the division series.

Tonight’s game with the White Sox, who, arriving in Oakland with a record 79-58, have the Central Divisional race all but locked up, further lessened the green and gold’s chances for life after October 3. With their definitive 6-3 loss to Chicago,, Oakland was left singing the blues

James Kaprielian (7-4, 3.87 at game time), who has seen his monthly ERA cllimb steadily from 2.95 in May to 5.06 in August, opened the game in horrendous fashion, surrendering a single to lead off hitter Luis Robert and a double to Yoán Moncada before loading the bases with nobody out by hitting José Abreu on the knee.

He nonetheless managed to escape an early disaster and limited the Chisox to a single tally by striking out Eloy Jiménez and Gavin Sheets. The run came on a walk to Yasmani Grandal, and the last out was the result of Leury Garcíá’s hard line drive that Matt Chapman snared at third.

The A’s recovered quickly in their half of the first and tied it up against Chicago’s Jimmy Lambert (0-1, 9.00), who spent most of last season on the injured list. They did it on a lead off double down the left field line by Josh Harrington, who moved on to third on Starling Marte’s fly to deep center and scored on Matt Olson’s sacrifice fly to right.

Kaprielian was was in and out of trouble during his four inning stint on the mound, gamely preventing any more Chicago scoring , but his 30 pitch first inning did him in. He ended up throwing 92 pitches, 63 for strikes, and allowing just that one run in the first. He also allowed five hits and two walks and hit two opposition batters. He brought his ERA down to 3.81 and left with a no decision.

AJ Puk replaced him on the mound for the top of the fifth, and eight pitches later the A’s were down, 2-1 on singles by Jiménez, Grandal, and Sheets. Leury García’s safety loaded the bases, and still none were out. Puk struck out Andrew Vaughn to put one away.

But César Hernández took Puk´s 3-2 offering to right for a two run single that sent García to third, Puk to the showers, and Daulton Jefferies to the mound. It took Puk all of 23 pitches and a third of an inning to surrender three earned runs.

Jefferies retired the side with the help of a pitcher´s best friend on three pitches. He ended up throwing 54 pitches over 3-2/3 innings before tiring and giving up a double to Moncada after a nine pitch at bat and following that with a walk to Abreu with two out in the eighth.

Jake Diekman wild pitched the runners up a base, and both scored on Brian Goodwin’s broken bat Texas League single to right. The runs were charged to Jeffries. Diekman then struck out Grandal to end the inning, the A’s trailing 6-1.

Garrett Crochet took over for Lambert after Chicago’s starter had gone five frames, throwing 47 strikes out of 70 pitches and holding the A’s to one run on three hits. He was credited with his first major league win, bringing his record for the season to 1-1, 6.23. Crochet set Oakland down in order before giving way to Ryan Tepera, who put the A’s down with a walk, a strike out, and a nifty Abreu, unassisted, to García 3-6 twin killing.

Chicago’s next pitcher was Ryan Burr, who gave up an infield single to Gomes, who scored when centerfielder Luis Robert misplayed Andrus’s single. Andrus advanced to second on the error. After retiring Chad Pinder, who pinch hit for Harrison, Burr was replaced by Craig Kimbrel.

Marte greeted him with a run producing single to center and followed that up with a steal of second that landed him on third when Grandal’s throw wound up in center field. But Khris Davis, who had replaced Lowrie as DH in the sixth, struck out swinging, and we entered the ninth with Chicago leading 6-3 and Deolis Guerra on the mound for Oakland.

It wasn’t pretty, involving two singles (one of the infield variety) and. stolen bases, but Guerra brought the Athletics to the bottom of the ninth, still trailing Chicago by only three runs.

In their last chance frame, Oakland had to contend with their ace closer of 2020, Liam Hendricks. He got his 33rd save by setting the A’s down 1-2-3.

The two teams will face each other Wedneday evening at 6:40, with Frankie Montás (11-9, 3.68) going against Dallas Keuchel (8-8, 5,22).

Webb dominant in Giants win 12-3

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San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb makes a quick pick off move to catch the Colorado Rockies base runner Brendan Rogers leaning off first base in the bottom of the third inning at Coors Field in Denver on Tue Sep 7, 2021 (AP News photo)

By Jeremy Kahn

After taking the opener of the series, the San Francisco Giants did not waste any time to get on the board.

The Giants, behind three consecutive doubles to start the game, helped them to an 12-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. With the victory, the Giants maintain their one-game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League after the Dodgers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 7-2 at Busch Stadium.

Tommy La Stella, Brandon Belt and Buster Posey each doubled in the top of the first inning, helping the Giants grab a 3-0 lead even before the Rockies came to the plate for the first time in the game.

Belt doubled In La Stella, then Posey doubled in Belt, and after LaMonte Wade, Jr., grounded out for the first out of the inning that sent Posey to third, Brandon Crawford singled in Posey for the third run of the inning.

The three doubles by the Giants to start the game were a San Francisco era first, as it was the first time that the team started a game with three consecutive doubles.

The three runs is all that Logan Webb needed, as he went seven innings, allowing three runs on nine hits, Webb did not walk a batter and struck out six on his way to his ninth win of the season.

After scoring three runs in the top of the first inning, the Giants added two more runs in the top of the second inning. Webb helped out his own cause, when he doubled to left field that scored Steven Duggar, who tripled with one out in the inning.

C.J. Cron got the Rockies on the board in the bottom of the fourth, as the National League Player of the Month for the month of August, doubled to center field to score Charlie Blackmon.

The Giants broke the game wide open in the top of the fifth inning, as Duggar hit his second triple of the game that scored Wade, Jr., Evan Longoria and Mike Yastrzemski.

Duggar is the first Giants player to have two triples in a game since Stephen Vogt did so on June 15, 2019 against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Longoria got in on RBI crew in the top of the seventh inning, as he into a force play and then Yastrzemski hit his career-high 22nd home run to lengthen the Giants lead up to 11-1.

The Rockies tried to cut into the lead in the bottom of the seventh inning, as Josh Fuentes singled off of Webb to score Ryan McMahon and then Rio Ruiz drove in the final run of the game for the Rockies.

That seventh inning would be the end of the line for Webb, who set a San Francisco era record by allowing two runs or less in a start came to a halt.

Webbs streak was the best by a pitcher for the team since Ferdie Schupp went 16 in a row from 1916-1917. Also, only seven pitchers in the modern era have put together longer streak.

Kervin Castro made his major-league debut in the bottom of the eighth inning, and went two innings, giving up two hits and striking out one.

Yastrzemski put the final touches on the scoring in the top of the ninth inning, as he singled to right field to score Longoria.

Both Crawford and Duggar picked up three hits for the Giants, who ended the night with 15 hits.

NOTES: Jake Jewell was claimed off of waivers by the Giants from the Dodgers, and was assigned to Sacramento.

When Thairo Estrada picked up two home runs on Monday, it was the fifth and sixth home runs of the season for Estrada and he is the 16th different Giants player to hit five or more home runs on the season. In doing so, the Giants are the first team in National League history to have 16 players with five or more home runs in a season.

Dominic Leone finished the game for the Giants on Monday, a day after he started the game for the Giants versusthe Dodgers on Sunday and according to Sportradar, the last Giants pitcher to record the first out in one game and the last in a game the very next day was Eric Gunderson…Gunderson started on April 23, 1990 at San Diego and recorded the game’s first out before recording the last out vs. Pittsburgh on April 24, 1990.

UP NEXT: Anthony DeSclafani goes for his 12th win of the season for the Giants in the finale, while the Rockies will send Jon Gray to the mound.

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary podcast: A’s prepare for White Sox tonight battle to stay in the hunt; Dave Stewart, Black investors looking to buy half of Coliseum

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Oakland A’s pitcher James Kaprielian gets the start against the Chicago White Sox Tuesday night at the Oakland Ring Central Coliseum to open a three game series (file photo San Francisco Chronicle)

On That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary podcast:

#1 Two Black groups have thrown their hats in the ring in bid to buy the other half of the Oakland Coliseum complex the Oakland A’s have bought the other half. Dave Stewart who is leading one group with MLB player agent Lonnie Murray and the other group African American Sports are bidding for the Coliseum property to develop for Sports Entertainment and promoting community projects for East Oakland a neighborhood whose long suffered economically. Stewart said he would like to see that part of the development of the Coliseum help out East Oakland residents.

#2 The Oakland A’s (74-63) are coming off a rough three game road trip against the Toronto Blue Jays (73-62) over last weekend getting swept and the pitching was shelled giving up a total of 21 runs.

#3 The A’s bullpen struggled to keep the Blue Jays off the bases and from hitting home runs. The Jays lead all of the Majors in home runs with 210 and the A’s who were a second place now a third place team in the AL West just couldn’t do anything all series long and didn’t even come close to catching the Blue Jays.

#4 In other A’s news A’s pitcher Chris Bassitt is progressing “the way you would want it to” said A’s manager Bob Melvin. Bassitt recovering cheek surgery has not thrown a baseball yet but Bassitt’s spirits are high he’s excited about getting back in the rotation and that’s pretty good considering what happened to Bassitt.

#5 Oakland A’s traveling secretary Mickey Morabito and the A’s had a customs and immigration snafu when told they could not go through the usual procedure of going through customs at Pearson Airport in Toronto because of reduced services and that they would have to go though customs in Columbus. Morabito wanted to go through customs in Oakland but the carrier was not able to secure ground handling services. Amaury you’ve traveled quite a bit for the professional sports this had to be a very unusual experience for Morabito and the A’s.

#6 The Chicago White Sox open a three game series against the Oakland A’s Tuesday night. The White Sox have not announced a starter and the A’s are going with James Kaprielian (7-4 ERA 3.87) a 6:40 pm first pitch at the Oakland Coliseum.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the lead Spanish play by play announcer for the Oakland A’s on flagship station 1010 KIQI Le Grande San Francisco and does News and Commentary at http://www.sportsradioservice.com