 - ejected in the third inning Thursday against the Mariners - struck out four over 5 2/3 innings pitching Sunday on short rest so Johnny Cueto could get an extra day.This time, Anderson kept calm.''It was just one game where I was probably running a little hot,'' he said.Tromp connected in the third for the Giants' first runs of the series, then Ruf the next inning against Minor (1-6), who was coming off a victory in his first start with Oakland. Tromp, a rookie, also had an RBI single during his three-hit day as San Francisco produced 15 hits to five by the A's.''We're going home with our spirits high. We have 100% confidence we're going to make this happen,'' Tromp said. ''We can all taste it.'' Ruf added a two-run single in the eighth as the Giants snapped a three-game winning streak for Oakland (33-20) following consecutive 6-0 shutouts. Luis Basabe got his first career RBI with a single in a three-run ninth.''I thought it was indicative of a club that just had a couple of bad days and got right back to the way we were swinging the bats prior to the first two games of this A's series,'' manager Gabe Kapler said. ''Kind of had a sense we were going to bounce back from that, and our guys came out ready today.'' AVOIDING A SWEEPThe Giants scored their second-most runs of the season behind a 23-5 win at Colorado on Sept. 1. They won for the third time in eight games after being held to fewer than one run in each of the five defeats during this stretch.San Francisco, which is 10-17 on the road, was outscored 44-30 in the six games versus Oakland in 2020.GOOD GUYSA's infielder Tony Kemp and his old college teammate at Vanderbilt, injured Giants right fielder Mike Yastrzemski, received the Bill Rigney ''Good Guy'' awards from the local chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.MENGDEN UPDATEA's RHP Daniel Mengden was designated for assignment after being medically cleared and reinstated from the COVID-19 injured list following a positive test from Aug. 28. He has been asymptomatic throughout and resumed throwing off a mound at the club's San Jose alternate site in recent days.TRAINER'S ROOMGiants: Rookie C Joey Bart is getting a couple of days off to do more hitting work with the coaches, Kapler said. ... Yastrzemski, who left Thursday's win against Seattle with tightness in his right calf, missed a third straight game.Athletics: C Sean Murphy took several backswings off the helmet during the series, one by Wilmer Flores on Sunday. ... RHP Lou Trivino sustained a ''pretty good-sized bruise'' according to Melvin after being hit by a line drive on the upper leg Saturday. Trivino did some pregame throwing to test the injury. ... INF Chad Pinder, on the injured list with a strained right hamstring, has begun baseball activities and took swings in the cage the past two days.UP NEXTGiants: Cueto (2-1, 4.78 ERA) pitches Monday trying to snap a four-start winless stretch after losing his last time out at San Diego.Athletics: RHP Frankie Montas (3-4, 5.86) is back from the paternity list and will pitch Tuesday's series opener at Dodger Stadium after an Oakland off day.---More MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/-Sports)
A's try to complete sweep of neighbor GiantsThe Oakland Athletics go for a clean sweep of their cross-bay rivals Sunday afternoon when they host the San Francisco Giants in the finale of a three-game interleague series.After two dramatic, one-run wins at San Francisco to open the six-game season series last month, the A's have crushed their neighbors to the tune of 27-3 in the last three meetings.Right-hander Chris Bassitt and lefty Jesus Luzardo have led off consecutive 6-0 shutouts in the first two games of this set, putting the A's in a position of recording the first 6-0 sweep of the Giants since the two began meeting in the regular season in 1997.The longest winning streak in the rivalry, including postseason play, is eight games by the A's, bridging the 1913 and 1989 World Series and 1997 regular season.Playing without two of their biggest bats -- injured third baseman Matt Chapman and outfielder Stephen Piscotty -- the A's (33-19) have surprised the Giants (25-26) with two guys who were playing for other teams when the clubs met in San Francisco last month.Jake Lamb triggered a five-run seventh inning Saturday with a two-run homer, his second home run since joining Oakland on Monday. He's gotten at least one hit in all five games he's played with the A's, going 7-for-19 (.368) with two doubles, two homers and five RBIs.Lamb hit just .116 for Arizona in 18 games before being designated for assignment last week."Seems like every game he comes up with a key hit," A's manager Bob Melvin observed. "Gets an opportunity off a lefty and takes advantage of it. That's how you get more opportunities. He's made quite the impression very quickly." Tommy La Stella, meanwhile, has hit safely in 15 of 19 games since joining the A's in a trade from the Los Angeles Angels last month.La Stella, who contributed a two-run triple to Saturday's win, has recorded two of more hits in a game seven times already for Oakland while accumulating a .310 average (21-for-68).The Giants announced after Saturday's game that they will push ace Johnny Cueto back a day to start Monday at home against Colorado. In his place, lefty Tyler Anderson (2-3, 5.06), who was ejected after two innings in his start Thursday against Seattle, will get to deal with the new-look A's.Anderson has faced Lamb 18 times in his career, with the ex-Diamondback going 3-for-15 (.200) with a double, homer and four RBIs. He's dueled La Stella just three times, resulting in 1-for-2 with a sacrifice fly.Anderson has never pitched against the A's.He is scheduled to be pitted against Oakland left-hander Mike Minor (1-5, 5.40 ERA), who is 3-2 with a 3.27 ERA in eight games (seven starts) against the Giants in his career.Minor will encounter a team that's totaled just nine hits -- eight singles and a Brandon Crawford double -- in the first two games of the series."We're just going through a little stretch here where we're fouling our pitch off. We're not squaring it up. We're chasing just a little bit more than we normally do," Giants manager Gabe Kapler assessed after Saturday's loss. "That's leading to an inability to keep rallies going. We really haven't had very many in this stretch." --Field Level Media
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