A's Defeat Divisional Opponent.

In a key AL West matchup, the A's defeat the Angels.

The A's and Angels needed extra innings to decide a AL West showdown, with Oakland eventually winning 7-5 in 11 innings. Going 3-for-5 and driving in 1 run, Jack Cust was the offense. Jerry Blevins came into a tie game and vultured his 1st win of the season, pitching 1 and a third innings and allowing no runs.

The series wraps up with A's pitcher Justin Duchscherer (0-0, 18.00) and the Angels turning to Joe Saunders (0-1, 5.40)

MLB Scoreboard - Oakland Athletics (2-3) at Los Angeles Angels (1-4)

April 10, 2010	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	EXTRAS	R	H	E
Oakland Athletics	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	7	13	0
Los Angeles Angels	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	11	0
WIN: Jerry Blevins (1-0) LOSS: Brian Fuentes (1-1) SAVE: Andrew Bailey (3)

Scoring Summary

			OAK	LAA
OAK	1st	Ellis sac fly	1	0
OAK	3rd	sweeney RBI Double	2	0
OAK	3rd	Cust RBI Groundour	3	0
LAA	4th	Morales 2-run Homerun	3	2
LAA	4th	Izturis 2-run single	3	4
OAK	5th	Fox Homerun	4	4
LAA	6th	Matsui RBI Double	4	5
OAK	8th	Gross RBI Double	5	5
OAK	11th	Ellis RBI Double	6	5
OAK	11th	Pennington RBI single	7	5

Oakland Athletics

HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
C. Crisp, CF	6	0	0	0	0	2	.286
E. Chavez, 1B	5	1	2	0	0	1	.400
R. sweeney, LF	5	1	1	1	0	0	.300
J. Fox, C	5	1	1	1	0	1	.167
J, Cust, DH	5	2	3	1	0	1	.379
K. Kouzmanoff, 3B	4	1	1	0	1	1	.333
G. Gross, RF	5	0	2	1	0	1	.400
M. Ellis, 2B	3	1	1	2	0	1	.227
C. Pennington, ss	5	0	2	1	0	0	.217
TOTALS	43	7	13	7	1	8
BATTING: 2B: Cust (2), sweeney (2), Ellis (1), Gross (1). HR: Fox (1) RBI: Cust (5), sweeney (4), Ellis 2 (5), Pennington (3), Fox (1), Gross (1) HBP: Ellis SF: Ellis
BASERUNNING: CS: Pennington (1)

Oakland Athletics

PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
B. sheets	8.2	8	5	5	1	8	6.91
J. Blevins (W, 1-0)	1.1	1	0	0	0	1	0.00
A. Bailey (s, 3)	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	5.40
TOTALS	11.0	11	5	5	1	9

Los Angeles Angels

HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
E. Aybar, ss	5	0	0	0	0	1	.167
H. Kendrick, 2B	5	1	1	0	0	2	.318
J. Rivera, LF	5	0	1	0	0	2	.250
K. Morales, 1B	5	2	2	2	0	0	.208
H. Matsui, DH	4	0	2	1	1	1	.480
B. Abreu, RF	5	1	2	0	0	1	.320
T. Hunter, CF	4	1	1	0	0	0	.192
C. Izturis, 3B	4	0	1	2	0	1	.182
J. Mathis, C	3	0	0	0	0	1	.067
M, Napoli, PH	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.00
Evans, PR	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Wilson, C	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
TOTALS	41	5	11	5	1	9
BATTING: 2B: Morales (1), Hunter (1), Matsui (2) HR: Morales (1) RBI: Moreales 2 (3), Matsui (4), Izturis 2 (2) GIDP: Hunter

Los Angeles Angels

PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
J. Weaver	7.0	8	4	4	0	6	4.85
K. Jepsen (H, 1)	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	1.50
F. Rodney	0.0	1	1	1	0	0	3.00
J. Bulger (Bs, 1)	0.1	1	0	0	0	1	3.38
s. shields	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	13.50
B. Fuentes (L, 1-1)	2.0	1	1	1	1	0	1.93
B. stokes	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	5.79
TOTALS	11.00	13	7	7	1	8

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