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- Updated: July 20, 2016
OAKLAND — A wacky sequence of events unfolded at the Coliseum on Tuesday night, all of them adding up to a walk-off, broken-bat single from Josh Reddick.
The A’s 4-3, 10-inning victory over the Astros featured mighty fight, and a dose of awkwardness.
Fortunately for Oakland, the former trumped the latter: Reddick sneaked a slow grounder between third and shortstop that Carlos Correa had to field on the run from the outskirts of the infield, as Marcus Semien rushed all the way home from second, scoring ahead of a throw that proved off line.
Coco Crisp was off the hook, then, after getting thrown out between second and third following a game-tying double off Astros closer Will Harris in the ninth inning that he believed to be a home run.
“I thought it was a home run,” Crisp said. “I was running around the bases like it was a home run. It’s just bad baserunning, when it’s all said …
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