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Miguel Tejada, Melvin Mora and Nick Markakis each homer to give Balitmore seven of its runs in an 8-4 win over Oakland on Sunday.
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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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OAKLAND, Calif. Oakland has company atop the AL West standings after the Athletics were beaten by Seattle 7-to-2. The loss drops the A&#39;s into a tie with Anaheim for the division lead with five games remaining.
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What the Oakland Athletics lacked in star power, they made up for in depth and savvy on their way to a major league-best 42-20 record from July 26 on to win the A.L. West.
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Ichiro Suzuki got one hit and plenty of help in knocking Oakland out of first place. Suzuki's fifth-inning single gave him 255 hits, two shy of George Sisler's 84-year-old major league record, and the Seattle Mariners sent the Athletics into second place in the AL West for the first time since Aug. 5 with a 4-2 victory Wednesday night.
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Eric Chavez&#039;s return to the lineup coincided with a boost in Oakland&#039;s offense and defense. Jay Payton was one of the beneficiaries.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland Athletics are used to pressure-packed pennant races...
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Garret Anderson hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning, Darin Erstad had a three-run homer and the Anaheim Angels beat Oakland 5-3 on Saturday to move two games behind the AL West-leading Athletics.
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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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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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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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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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Oakland Athletics reach the American League Championship Series with a 3-0 play-off win over the Minnesota Twins.
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After four consecutive failures in division series from 2000-3, the Oakland A's finally had a chance to celebrate when they beat the Twins 8-3 to complete a three-game sweep.
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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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OAKLAND -- -- The essential difference between the A&#39;s and the Anaheim Angels, so narrow yet so pronounced, rang loud and clear Saturday, distilled to a single inning.
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The A's use home runs by Erubiel Durazo and Eric Chavez to finish a four-game sweep of the crumbling Orioles, 9-4, on Thursday.