The Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 7-1 on Sunday to complete a three came sweep against the Royals.  The Athletics only allowed three hits and one run in the game as their record improved to 12-8 for the year.

Dana Eveland is now 2-1 for the year after his victory over the Royals.  He pitched for just over 5 and a half innings giving up 3 hits and a run before being relieved by Andrew Brown and Santiago Casilla. 

It was a big hitting night for the A’s as well with 2 batters, Rob Bowen and Jack Hannahan, each picking up a pair of RBIs while Chris Denorfia, Mark Ellis, and Bobby Crosby all finished with one RBI. 

Now that the Athletics are done cleaning up the Royals, they are moving on to the Twins as they will battle them at home Tuesday night.

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The Oakland Athletics scored four runs in the top of the 9th inning to come from behind and beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3.  What a great win for the A’s on the road against a good Blue Jays team!  Wins like this can really carry over and provide a lot of momentum for a team.

In the 9th inning, Mark Ellis got the scoring going as he tripled and scored Travis Buck.  Emil Brown then hit into a fielder choice that scored Ellis.  Bobby Crosby then doubled to left field that scored Chris Denorfia and Brown.

Ellis finished the game going 4-5 to raise his average to .250 on the season.

Fernando Hernandez picked up the win for the Athletics.  It was his first win of the season.

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The Oakland Athletics let a two run lead slip away in the bottom of the 8th inning, and then regained that lead on a Ryan Sweeney triple that scored Kurt Suzuki in the 9th inning as they went onto beat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-8.

Sweeney collected two RBI, while, Travis Buck, Mark Ellis, Daric Barton, Mike Sweeney, Jack Cust, and Suzuki all collected one RBI.  Talk about spreading the offense up and down the lineup!

Alan Embree picked up the win for the Athletics and Huston Street picked up his first save of the season.

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If the rest of the season is as exciting as the first game, we are going to be in for one hell of a ride lol.  Even though the A’s lost to the Boston Red Sox 6-5 in 10 innings there were some good things from the game.

Getting off to the fast start was nice to see.  The A’s rattled Red Sox starter Daisuke Matsuzaka in the first inning when Mark Ellis went deep for his first homerun of the season, and the A’s scored another run to take a quick 2-0 lead when Bobby Crosby grounded out to the pitcher but but scored Daric Barton.

Jack Hannahan hit a two run homer in the 6th inning that made the score 4-3 A’s, but it wasn’t enough as Huston Street would later blow the save in the 9th inning when Brandon Moss hit a homerun and then take the loss in the 10th inning after giving up a game winning double to Manny Ramirez.

The two teams will play one more game before coming back to the United States.

The Athletics also announced that Eric Chavez and Chad Gaudin have been placed on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 19th.