16-0 rout of Jays makes A's 16-2 in July

As if the Oakland A's could get any hotter, they scored 16 runs Wednesday while extending their season-high winning streak to seven games. Every member of the Oakland starting lineup scored a run in the 16-0 victory over the Blue Jays at Toronto, and all but Jemile Weeks had a hit and an RBI. Manager Bob Melvin said afterward that Weeks had had two key at-bats in the second inning, seeing more than 20 pitches and walking once. Coco Crisp had three hits, including two homers, his third career multi-homer game, and Chris Carter homered and drove in three runs. The highlight of the game, however, came when Josh Reddick scaled the chain-link fence in right and clung to it for several moments while waiting for the drive by Travis Snider to settle into his glove. Rookie A.J. Griffin went six innings and allowed three hits and two walks. He has made six starts and gone six innings in all of them, never allowing more than three runs. His ERA stands at 2.25. The A's are 16-...