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Lowrie tags ex-team with 9th-inning blast
- Updated: June 5, 2016
HOUSTON — The A’s walked out of Minute Maid Park on Saturday evening with another loss in tow, this one by a 6-5 margin after a 12-inning escapade with the Astros that was as deflating as it was lengthy.
There was at least pause for celebration on the A’s side, though, when Jed Lowrie greeted his twice-former team with a game-tying home run with two outs in the ninth inning.
“It’s always fun to get your former team, and you add in the fact it was top of the ninth, two outs and down by one, it was kind of icing on the cake,” Lowrie said.
For Lowrie, who has hit as many as 16 home runs in a season, it was his first of the year, a solo shot off right-hander Luke Gregerson that snapped his season-opening homerless streak at 40 games — the longest of his career.
Gregerson and Lowrie were teammates on both the A’s and Astros but had never faced each other. They signed on with Houston ahead of the 2015 season, inking three-year contracts for a team on a mission. Lowrie, …
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