A's Cahill is on a roll

OAKLAND – Kurt Suzuki and Daric Barton drove in two runs apiece, Trevor Cahill won his fourth consecutive decision, and the A's clinched their first winning month in more than a year with a 9-1 victory over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night. Texas' loss kept the Rangers seven games behind Boston in the American League wild-card race, and it clinched a postseason berth for the New York Yankees. Suzuki hit a two-run double and scored on Jack Cust's double during a five-run seventh, when the A's broke the game open to win for the 10th time in 12 games. Oakland improved to 14-6 in September. It's the first time since June 2008 the A's have had a winning record in a month. David Murphy had two hits and an RBI, and Iván Rodríguez singled twice for the Rangers, who lost for the eighth time in 11 games. Texas carried a four-game road winning streak into the game and had scored at least 10 runs in each of the victories. But the ...