Jerry McDonald has been with the Bay Area News Group for more than 30 years, with a heavy concentration of NFL football since the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995. His all-time favorite athlete is a right-handed pitcher at Division III Linfield College in Oregon.
Athletics’ catcher Shea Langeliers hits a two-run home run for the Athletics in the second inning Wednesday in the first game of a doubleheader at the Coliseum against Texas.OAKLAND — The Athletics snapped a three-game losing streak utilizing extra base power and the luxury of using closer Mason Miller with an five-run lead in the first game of a doubleheader Wednesday at the Coliseum.
Winning pitcher J.P. Sears was lifted by manager Mark Kotsay with a one-run lead and two outs in the sixth after giving up a single to Andrew Kninzer. He gave up seven hits and four earned runs with a walk and three strikeouts. Sears threw 88 pitches, 56 of which were strikes. Texas starter Michael Lorenzen departed with a 6-4 deficit after six innings, giving up six earned runs with two walks and six strikeouts. Cole Winn came on in the seventh, and after hitting Abraham Toro with a pitch and walking J.J. Bleday, served up a three-run home run to Rooker to put the Athletics up 9-4.
Langeliers had the third of three consecutive doubles in the fourth inning as the A’s tied the score 4-4. The first was by Brent Rooker to right center, and the second a windblown fly to right by J.D. Davis that Adolis Garcia played into a double to put runners at second and third. Langeliers jumped on the first pitch and lined it down the left field line to bring in both runners.
That lead was erased quickly and forcefully by Semien, whose line drive carried 412 feet into the staircase in left field to tie the score 2-2 and departed at 112.2 miles per hour.
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