Good sign as Gray battles through rough spot

ARLINGTON — Sonny Gray’s latest outing, much like his season, was a mixed bag.

More good than bad defined this one, though, and that hasn’t always been the case for the A’s right-hander, who claimed just his fifth win of the season in a 6-3 A’s victory in Texas on Tuesday.

Gray was absolutely dominant through his first four innings, looking very much like his old self in a display that saw him strike out six and allow no hits. That version of the right-hander also appeared in the sixth, when Gray notched two more strikeouts in a clean inning.

Yet it was the fifth inning that proved most telling, and not because he wavered from his mastery over the Rangers temporarily. That he returned to it trumped in significance.

“I’ve had some innings get away from me this year, and to make the pitches that I needed to make there in order to get those guys out was something I hadn’t been able to do for …

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