Kluber got relief help from winning pitcher J.P. But it’s the same guy who knows how to execute, knows how to pitch, and when he doesn’t make any mistakes he’s going to have outings like this.” “He doesn’t have the stuff that he used to have velocity-wise. In the fourth, Jed Lowrie had a one-out single and Sean Murphy walked, but Kluber struck out Brown and retired Piscotty on a fly to center. The A’s had their best chance to score in the second inning when Seth Brown hit a one-out triple, but Kluber struck out both Stephen Piscotty and Chad Pinder to end the inning. He walked one, struck out seven and threw 64 pitches, 46 of which were strikes. Cy Young Award winner he was in Cleveland from 2013 through 2018, locked up the A’s to the tune of three hits in six innings. Kluber, who resembled the three-time All-Star and two-time A.L. Montas then got Margot to ground to Sheldon Neuse at third to end the threat. The Rays didn’t get a runner to third against Montas until the sixth inning when Arozarena hit a one-out double and then stole third with two out. “It’s tough, but we played really good defense today,” Montas said. He said his splitter wasn’t working but was able to command his fastball and slider to get outs. Montas threw 103 pitches, 65 of them strikes, before Jackson took over in the eighth. Montas was done after seven scoreless innings, giving up four hits. A’s manager Mark Kotsay lifts Zach Jackson in the eighth inning after Tampa Bay broke a scoreless tie en route to a 3-0 win at the Coliseum. AP Photo The A’s failed to hold a 5-3 lead Tuesday night with Kirby Snead giving up a two-run home run in the ninth to Mike Zunino and Lou Trivino getting roughed up for five runs in the top of the 10th. “He had a chance to get out of it, but he left a breaking ball up for Margot and unfortunately we didn’t get away with the mistake.” “He doesn’t help himself walking the leadoff guy in the eighth,” Kotsay said of Jackson. Jackson was removed in favor of Acevedo, with Lowe scoring on a balk to make it 3-0. Margot then singled to right, bringing in Phillips and Arozarena. Manuel Margot broke the deadlock with a clean two-run single off Jackson with two out in the eighth, and then Domingo Acevedo balked home the third run of the inning as the A’s late relief faltered for the second straight game. “Everybody goes through situations where maybe it’s the lack of offense one day, the bullpen doesn’t come through another day, but my whole focus with that group is to keep the mindset that we’re going to go out and win the day.” “There’s some anger in there, because they know we had opportunities to win games on this homestand and didn’t get it done,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said. It was the first winless homestand of six or more games in Oakland history and just the third time it had happened in franchise history. Tampa Bay, which lost three of four to the A’s in Florida in April, improved to 15-10. The loss dropped the A’s to 10-15 as they embark on an eight-game trip to Minnesota and Detroit starting Friday. The A’s wasted seven shutout innings from starter Frankie Montas, who was locked in a pitcher’s duel with Corey Kluber that kept the game scoreless until the eighth inning. The loss brought with it the ignominy of an 0-6 homestand, as the Cleveland Guardians swept the A’s in three games before Tampa Bay came to town and did the same thing. Reliever Zach Jackson loaded the bases without giving up a hit in the eighth inning to set the stage for The Tampa Bay Rays scoring all of their runs in a 3-0 win over the A’s before an announced crowd of 4,838 at the Coliseum. OAKLAND - The A’s may have some rough homestands to come, but it can’t get any worse than the one that concluded Wednesday afternoon.
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