Baseball: Oakland victorious
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Oakland Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 12-3 to seal the American League West title.
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Eric Chavez singled in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning, leading the Oakland Athletics to a wild 7-6 win against the Rangers on Monday night in a game that was
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Despite not getting a decision starting pitcher Park Chan-ho contributed to the Texas Rangers stirring 5-4 win Thursday that clinched a three-game series sweep of the Oakland Aâs and moved
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Oakland advances to its first ALCS since 1992, notching an 8-3 victory over Minneosta to complee a three-game sweep of the Twins on Friday.
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Erubiel Durazo hit a three-run homer and Eric Chavez also connected for the Oakland Athletics, who completed a four-game sweep of the slumping Baltimore Orioles with a 9-4 victory Thursday.
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Frank Thomas hit his 476th home run, Nick Swisher connected three batters later and Esteban Loaiza completed a perfect August by winning his fourth straight decision to lead the Oakland Athletics past the beat-up Boston Red Sox 9-0 on Monday night.
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Mark Redman pitched eight innings of six-hit ball, and Oakland used a three-run fifth inning to beat Baltimore, 3-1, Monday.
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Sammy Sosa told himself to be patient and wait for his pitch &#151; even if it wasn't a home-run pitch. Oakland intentionally walked Mark Teixeira to load the bases and get to Sosa, and the slugger broke through against Lenny DiNardo.
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Fausto Carmona won his 18th game, Ryan Garko and Jhonny Peralta hit back-to-back homers and Cleveland beat the Oakland Athletics 4-3 Friday night to lower their magic number to two for clinching their first AL Central title since 2001.
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The Texas Rangers got the sweep they needed against Oakland's "Big Three" to keep their postseason hopes alive.    David Dellucci hit a two-out, two-run double past a diving Jermaine Dye in the ninth inning to cap a three-run rally and give Texas a 5-4 victory over the Athletics on Thursday night...
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Mike Lowell drives in five runs to lead Boston's revived hitting and the Red Sox cut their magic number to clinch the AL East title to two by beating the A's.
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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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Ray Durham hit a game-winning three-run homer onto the arcade atop the right-field wall, and the San Francisco Giants overcame a five-run deficit for an 8-7 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Saturday.
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Jack Cust had a career-high five RBIs, Shannon Stewart finished with four hits and the Oakland Athletics beat the Cleveland Indians 13-7 Wednesday night to snap a five-game losing streak.
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The San Francisco Giants finally found a way to win a one-run game.
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After chasing the Athletics all September, the Angels scored three times in the eighth inning to beat Oakland 5-4 Saturday and clinch their first division title in 18 years.
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Nick Swisher had a three-run double and drove in four runs to help Kirk Saarloos win for the first time in more than two months, and the Oakland Athletics extended their winning streak against Seattle to 14 games with a 11-2 victory over the Mariners on Tuesday night.