The Athletics fell behind behind early, rallied for a late lead, then won it in the bottom of the ninth.
Jed Lowrie singled home Cristian Pache with two out in the ninth inning Sunday as the Athletics avoided a four-game sweep with a 6-5 win over the Texas Rangers before a crowd of 8,342 at the Coliseum.
It shouldn’t have been that close, considering the Rangers made five errors and the Athletics out-hit Texas 14-7. But the A’s were a ghastly 3-for-20 with runners in scoring position — with Chad Pinder and Lowrie delivering in the final two innings — and left 16 runners on base. Pinder, hitting for Seth Brown, drove in the tying run against reliever John King. Then, with one out, Marcus Semien, playing second base, threw a ball in the dirt with the infield in and the bases loaded enabling Laureano to score the lead run.
Kaprielian was done after 4 1/3 innings, giving up the two solo home runs and two more in the fifth inning on run-scoring singles from Miller and Semien, the latter on an 0-2 pitch driven to right field. Lowrie opened with a single, and after Brown struck out, Sean Murphy hit a ball down the line which got hung up against the wall, with Lowrie coming all the way around to score.
Kevin Smith attempted to squeeze home Barrera, but relief pitcher Dennis Santana fielded the ball with perfect momentum to tag Barrera before he reached the plate.
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