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Seattle Mariners vs. Oakland Athletics Sunday, September 14, 2014 at 1:10 p.m. (ROOT Sports)
RHP Chris Young (12-7, 3.35)
vs.
LHP Jon Lester (13-10, 2.54)

OAKLAND ATHLETICS (82-66) vs. SEATTLE MARINERS (80-67)
Saturday, September 13, 2014 Safeco Field

LINESCORE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10
R H E LOB
Oakland Athletics 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
1
- 3 8 1 10
Seattle Mariners 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
0
- 2 5 0 2
First Pitch: 6:10 pm Time of Game: 3:20 Temp: 80/E @ 2 mph

Attendance: 43,913

WP: Luke Gregerson (5-4, 2.18) LP: Fernando Rodney (1-6, 2.60)
SV: Sean Doolittle (21)

HOME RUNS: NO. PITCHER INN. MOB OUT COUNT DISTANCE
Josh Donaldson (OAK) 27 Hernandez 6 0 1 1-0 LF/382ft
Robinson Cano (SEA) 14 Gray 7 0 0 1-0 RF/397ft

PITCHING LINES:
OAKLAND IP H R ER BB-I SO HR WP HB BK PITCHES/STRIKES
Sonny Gray 8.0 5 2 2 2-0 7-0 1 0 0 0 96/59
Luke Gregerson (W) 1.0 0 0 0 0-0 1 0 0 0 0 10/8
Sean Doolittle (S) 1.0 0 0 0 0-0 1 0 0 0 0 9/7

SEATTLE IP H R ER BB-I SO HR WP HB BK PITCHES/STRIKES
Felix Hernandez 7.0 7 2 2 0-0 8 1 2 0 0 95/58
Joe Beimel 0.1 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 5/3
Tom Wihelmsen 1 BF 0 0 0 1-0 0 0 0 0 0 5/1
Charlie Furbush 0.1 0 0 0 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 13/7
Danny Farquhar 1.1 1 0 0 0-0 1 0 0 0 0 16/13
Fernando Rodney (L) 1.0 0 1 1 4-1 1 0 0 0 0 32/10


MARINERS NOTES:
Seattle is 1.5 games behind Oakland for the 1
st
Wild Card spot, & 1 game behind Kansas City for 2nd Wild Card.
Mariners played their 10th extra inning game this season, their fourth at home.
o Seattle is 0-4 at extra inning contests at Safeco this year.
Felix Hernandez recorded tossed 7.0+ innings and allowed 2-or-fewer runs in 21 of 31 starts this season.
o 5
th
time in 6 starts that he has tossed 7.0+ innings with 2-or-fewer runs against Oakland this season.
Felix Hernandez received his 12
th
no-decision of the season, his 2
nd
in his last 4 starts.
o In no-decisions has posted a 2.05 ERA (18 ER, 79.0 IP) with 94 strikeouts.
Felix Hernandez became the second pitcher in franchise history to record 300 game starts as a Mariner (also:
Jamie Moyer, 323 GS w/ Seattle1996-2006)
Endy Chavez has hit in 18 of his last 24 games (since 8/6) is batting .323 (20x62) with 6R, HR, 12 RBI, 8 BB.
o Against Oakland in 42 career games, Chavez is batting .336 (40x119) with 22 R, 5 2B, 3B, 13 RBI, 9 BB.
Chris Taylor made his first start of the home stand, and plated the Mariners first run when James Jones scored
on Taylors third-inning RBI single. his 6
th
RBI of the season (first since 8/23).
Robinson Cano hit a game-tying solo home run in the 7
th
inning.
o Of his 14 home runs, 4 have given Seattle the lead, 2 have tied the game7 of his 14 homers have come
since August 2
nd

o He has 7 home runs in his last 38 games (since Aug. 2); hit 7 in his first 104 games this season.
o The Mariners are 10-4 when Cano hits a home run.
o Second time this season with home runs in back-to-back games (last: 6/29 vs. CLE- 6/30 @ HOU)
James Jones recorded his 17
th
multi-hit game of the season, his first since July 18 at LAA.

CHALLENGES:

Mariners Manager Challenge: Eric Sogard steals 2

nd
base in the 9
th
inning with 2 outs, initially ruled safe.
o Call is overturned, caught stealingTime of Delay: 1 minute, 59 seconds.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS NOTES ON BACK OF PAGE



NEXT GAME
Seattle Mariners vs. Oakland Athletics Sunday, September 14, 2014 at 1:10 p.m. (ROOT Sports)
RHP Chris Young (12-7, 3.35)
vs.
LHP Jon Lester (13-10, 2.54)


ATHLETICS NOTES:
Oakland snapped a 3-game losing streak and are now 10-22 over their last 32 games (since Aug. 10).
o Have now won 2 of the last 10 road gamesare 5-15 on the road since Aug. 11
Josh Donaldson recorded his career-high 27
th
HR this season a solo-shot off in the sixth inning
o It is his first home run in September and his first since Aug. 28 at LAA.
o 14 of his home runs have either tied (3) the game or given his team the lead (11).
Eric Sogard plated Oaklands go-ahead run in the seventh inning with an RBI single.
o Stole his career-high 11
th
stolen base in the seventh inning off of Hernandez/Zunino
o Tied a career-high with 3 hits (3
rd
time this season, 6
th
time in his career, last: June 1 vs. LAA).
Sonny Gray tossed 8.0 innings, his 4
th
start this season of at least 8.0 innings (last: 8.1 Aug. 22 vs. LAA).
o Has tossed 6.0+ innings in 25 of his 30 starts, 7.0+ in 15 of his 30 starts.
Sean Doolittle earned his 21st save on the season is 21-24 in save opportunities.
o Has not allowed a run in his past 14 games and 14.0 innings.
o Is 3-3 in save opportunities against Seattle and has not allowed a run in 8 games (10.1 IP, 3 H, 12 K).


ATHLETICS MANAGER BOB MELVIN:

Oaklands hitting against Felix Hernandez

I thought our at bats for most of the game were really goodwe were really hitting his tough luck early on.. had about four
or five line drive outs, which get really frustrating when youre going through a period like this. Especially when youre
getting decent at bats off a guy that has been pretty tough on us. We battled through and got some good enough at bats
to put us in position where we have the bases loaded off Rodney and we got a run.

Against Felix continued

There have been so many times that weve gotten behind him, and hes get ahead of us. And no all of a sudden hes in plus
counts and I think we had some better swings in early counts off of himdidnt really get much to show for it but we hit
some balls hard which increases the confidence that you have swinging the bat. Certainly in the last inning, our patience
paid off.