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Mark Ellis lined a homer just over the left-field wall with two outs in the ninth inning and the Oakland Athletics avoided a three-game sweep with a 3-2 win over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday.
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August 15, 2009
Joey Devine suited up and played catch for the first time since his April elbow surgery. He still wants to be ready to pitch in spring training and break camp with the A's, but as he said today, "There's a long road ahead and a lot of patience."
Devine played catch with pitching coach Curt Young:...
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August 16, 2009
Mark Ellis lined a homer just over the left-field wall with two outs in the ninth inning and the Oakland Athletics avoided a three-game sweep with a 3-2 win over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday.
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August 16, 2009
Much of his abbreviated season, Mark Ellis has hit into hard luck. Balls have just barely gone foul, they've just missed going out. On Sunday, though, Ellis drilled a line drive that cleared the left-field fence by a foot or two, getting out of the Coliseum...
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August 17, 2009
OAKLAND -- Mark Ellis lined a home run just over the left-field wall with two outs in the ninth inning, and the A's avoided a three-game sweep with a 3-2 win over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday.
Ellis hit his third career game-winning homer and first since June 8 last year against the Angels off Bobby Jenks (2-4), who had previously posted five consecutive scoreless...
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August 17, 2009
From Chronicle Staff Writer Susan Slusser at the Coliseum
I went in and checked the lineup card and rookie outfielder Aaron Cunningham wasn't listed on it (the entire bullpen and all the extra position players are on the card), so I went and asked Cunningham - and nobody had told him yet.
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August 17, 2009
Brett Tomko pitched five scoreless innings to beat the Yankees less than a month after being released by them, winning his debut with the Athletics 3-0 Monday.
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August 18, 2009
A game that appeared headed one way in a hurry turned around entirely on one play, when Brett Tomko, improbably, got the better of Alex Rodriguez. Tomko, dumped by the Yankees in July, was making a spot start for Oakland on Monday night with few expectations....
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August 18, 2009
Brett Tomko wore pinstripes at one point this season only to go out and beat them on Monday, tossing five scoreless frames in Oakland's 3-0 victory over the Yankees.
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August 17, 2009
A.J. faces ex-Yank Brett Tomko. I bet my friend Andrew that the Yanks would sweep. 18 holes plus beverages on the line. No, officer, I was not intoxicated at the time.
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August 15, 2009
Gio Gonzalez left too big of a hole for the A's to climb out of as the Chicago White Sox took advantage of the left-hander's wildness on their way to an 8-1 victory at the Coliseum Saturday afternoon.
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August 17, 2009
The Yankees continue their road trip when they begin a three game series at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum against the Oakland Athletics.
The Yankees come in at 74-44 and in first place in the American League East. They are also 7.5 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees have a 33-26 road record, which ranks second best in the American League.
The A's...
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