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- Updated: August 25, 2016
OAKLAND — The A’s held the Indians to a single run for the third straight game in Wednesday’s 5-1 win at the Coliseum, taking two of three from the American League Central’s best team and capping a surprisingly dominant stretch of pitching.
Kendall Graveman was the latest to flummox the Indians, allowing one run in 6 2/3 innings to win for the 10th time. The A’s frustrated Cleveland starter Trevor Bauer in a five-run second inning highlighted by yet another extra-base hit for Khris Davis and RBIs from Ryon Healy and Chad Pinder.
And, as things typically go when teams win, the A’s even benefited from some help when Carlos Santana misjudged an infield fly, allowing two runs to score.
“It’s been kind of a theme for us this year,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said. “We’ve played, at times, really well against good teams, and at times, not so good. And we’ve played poorly against some of the teams we’d maybe expect to do a little bit better against, so I can’t figure it out.”
Oakland’s brief emergence comes after a series of …
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