The A's Are Soaking In Their AL West Crown
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Nick Swisher bounced from players, to coaches, to front-office personnel, making sure every member of the Athletics' organization was soaked in champagne.
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ARLINGTON, Texas Texas has roared back into the American League West division race by completing a three-game sweep of Oakland. The Rangers rallied for three runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat the A&#39;s
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Bartolo Colon pitched seven shutout  innings and Alfredo Amezaga hit a grand slam home run as the  Anaheim Angels trounced the Oakland Athletics 10-0 in their  American League West showdown series opener Friday.
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The Oakland Athletics are baffled by their late-season collapse. It's so completely out of character. The A's are headed home for an even longer winter this year thanks to their problematic pitching in crunch time and a sputtering offense that caused this club to miss the playoffs for the first time in five years.
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Anaheim moved a game ahead of Oakland in the American League West race Wednesday night while New York moved within a victory of the AL East title.
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After Barry Zito gave up a tying three-run homer to Willie Bloomquist, the Oakland Athletics bounced back and maintained their one-game lead over Anaheim in the AL West.
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The Anaheim Angels beat Oakland 5-3 to move back to within two games of the AL West-leading Athletics. Garret Anderson hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning to give Anaheim a 4-3 lead, and Chone Figgins
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For the second time in his life, Jason Kendall owns an Oakland A&#39;s baseball hat. &quot;My third grade hat was an Oakland A&#39;s hat,&quot; said Kendall, who was in town Tuesday
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The task in front of the St. Louis Cardinals is simple really, simply stated at least. They have to do everything better if they are going to beat the Boston Red Sox.
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The Orioles score two in the top of the first off Oakland's Dan Haren but struggle the rest of the way as Baltimore falls, 4-3, to the A's.
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Oakland, CA (Sports Network) - Bartolo Colon hurled seven shutout innings of three-hit ball as the Anaheim Angels drew first blood in this three-game series for the American League West title with a 10-0 victory over the Oakland Athletics at Network
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The Oakland Athletics are in position to clinch the AL West this weekend against their biggest division rival, and it appears they will have star right-hander Rich Harden healthy come October.
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Marco Scutaro drove in the winning run in the 12th inning with a single and the Oakland Athletics reduced their magic number to win the AL West to two with a 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.
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OAKLAND, Calif. David Ortiz hit a solo homer and had four RBI&#39;s as Boston slammed Oakland 8-to-3. Mark Kotsay hit a pair of solo homers to put the A&#39;s ahead to stay.
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The Minnesota Twins are finding their form from last season when they made an unlikely playoff run. Second-half success for the Oakland A's, meanwhile, has yet to be found.
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The Yankees and the Cardinals have won more World Series rings than any other teams in baseball. Which comes as cold comfort, if you happen to be enduring their agonizingly awful performances to date this year. Two fans, on coping with loss.
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Mark Mulder has lost his edge, and the Oakland Athletics are in ever-greater danger of losing their spot atop the AL West. Mark Teixeira hit a three-run homer off Mulder, and the Texas Rangers kept creeping back into the playoff chase with a 10-3 victory over the A's on Wednesday night.