Rays shut out A’s 3-0, sweep series
Corey Kluber struck out seven in six shutout innings, Manuel Margot hit a two-out, two-run single within the eighth inning and the Tampa Bay Rays accomplished a three-game sweep of the host Oakland Athletics, 3-0 on Wednesday afternoon.
J.P. Feyereisen, Colin Poche and nearer Andrew Kittredge tag-teamed with Kluber on a four-hitter, serving to the Rays overcome a stellar pitching effort by Frankie Montas whereas sending the A’s to a sixth straight defeat on a winless homestand.
Neither Kluber nor Montas was round for the eighth inning, by which A’s reliever Zach Jackson (0-1) walked Brett Phillips to ignite a three-run rebellion.
Two outs later, Jackson additionally walked Randy Arozarena and hit Brandon Lowe with a pitch, loading the bases for Margot, who shot a single into proper area to make it 2-0.
Lowe took third on the hit, from the place he was awarded house plate when Jackson’s substitute, Domingo Acevedo, dedicated a balk.
Montas had labored the primary seven innings, shutting out the Rays on 4 hits. He walked one and struck out six.
Feyereisen (2-0) was credited with the win after pitching 1 1/3 innings. Kittredge wanted simply 10 pitches in a 1-2-3 ninth for his fourth save, delivering Tampa Bay’s sixth win in its final eight video games.
Kluber, who was coming off a six-inning, one-hit effort in a victory over the Minnesota Twins, restricted the A’s to a few hits over the primary six innings. He walked one.
The closest Oakland got here to scoring was within the second, when Seth Brown bombed a one-out triple to heart area. However Kluber struck out Stephen Piscotty and Chad Pinder to strand the baserunner.
The A’s put two on with one out within the fourth when Jed Lowrie singled and Sean Murphy walked. However once more Kluber bore down, fanning Brown earlier than getting Piscotty on a fly to heart.
Margot, with two singles, and Isaac Paredes, who singled and doubled, have been the sport’s lone members with a number of hits in a contest that featured simply three extra-base hits.
Arozarena additionally doubled for the Rays, who out-hit the A’s 6-4.
–Discipline Degree Media
