Roundup: Brandon Moss' bat lifts A's to sweep of Red Sox

Roundup: Brandon Moss' bat lifts A's to sweep of Red Sox

2012-07-04
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Jemile Weeks hit a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh following Coco Crisp's leadoff triple, and the Oakland Athletics completed a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox with a 3-2 win Wednesday.
Red Sox slugger David Ortiz hit his 400th career home run and also scored on Adrian Gonzalez's sixth-inning single, but Boston couldn't avoid its first sweep by the A's since May 23-25, 2008, also in Oakland. The Red Sox lost just their fourth series in the last 17 and completed a disappointing 2-5
road trip through Seattle and Oakland, the AL West's two bottom teams.
Brandon Moss homered leading off the second for his 10th of the season, giving the A's longballs in 15 straight games — most for the club since doing so in 17 in a row from April 12-May 1, 2002.
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Moss singled in the fourth and doubled in the sixth, leaving him a triple shy of the cycle.
Indians 12, Angels 3
CLEVELAND — Derek Lowe won for the first time in more than a month and the Cleveland Indians beat the Los Angeles Angels 12-3 Wednesday.
Lowe (8-6) gave up three runs and 11 hits in six innings for his first win in six starts since June 1. The 39-year-old right-hander was 0-3 with a 7.71 ERA in five outings between victories.
Michael Brantley hit a three-run homer in the first inning off Ervin Santana (4-9) and Casey Kotchman had a three-run shot in a six-run second as Cleveland took a 9-1 lead.
Johnny Damon had a season-high three of Cleveland's 14 hits. The Indians scored 21 runs in two wins after being shut out 3-0 in the series opener.
Orioles 4, Mariners 1
SEATTLE — Chris Tillman gave up just two hits in 8⅓ innings in first start of 2012, Adam Jones hit his 20th home run of the season into the upper deck in left field, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Seattle Mariners 4-1 on Wednesday.
Jones' homer leading off the second inning came on a 2-0 pitch from Seattle starter Hector Noesi (2-11) and landed well back in the upper level seats. That was all Tillman needed, as the one-time Seattle prospect shut down his former organization after getting called up from the minors.
Tillman (1-0) took a one-hitter into the ninth but Michael Saunders reached on an error and John Jaso's one-out double on Tillman's 125th pitch ended his day. Jim Johnson entered and gave up an RBI groundout to Kyle Seager and RBI single to Justin Smoak, but still finished off his major league-leading 25th save.