John Jaso

The Sports Xchange By Eric Gilmore, The Sports Xchange A's 5, Rangers 1 OAKLAND, Calif. -- Yoenis Cespedes and Brandon Moss crushed back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning, powering the Oakland A's to a 5-1 victory over the Texas Rangers in the...

The Sports Xchange By Eric Gilmore, The Sports Xchange A's shut down hot Rangers OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Texas Rangers took a four-game winning streak into Monday night's opener of a three-game series against the struggling Oakland A's. They had pounded...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Athletics 5, Rangers 1 Athletics 5, Rangers 1: Yoenis Cespedes and Brandon Moss hit back-to-back homers as host Oakland snapped Texas' four-game winning streak. A.J. Griffin (4-3) matched a season high with eight strikeouts and...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Oakland Athletics - INSIDE PITCH The A's will get three of their four injured players back this week, it appears. Manager Bob Melvin said on Sunday that Coco Crisp, who had initially been behind Chris Young in the...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Oakland Athletics - INSIDE PITCH The Athletics' last view of the Rangers came on the final day of the 2012 season, when Oakland beat Texas to take the AL West title. On Monday, the teams face off again for the first...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Oakland Athletics - INSIDE PITCH At the start of their current three-city road trip, the A's took two of three games at Yankee Stadium. Then they hit Cleveland, where the league's hottest team is playing, and...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Seattle Mariners - INSIDE PITCH If the Mariners are going to have any kind of success this season, they're going to have to find a way to hit on the road. After the recent road trip that closed out with eight...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Mariners 6, Athletics 3 Mariners 6, Athletics 3: Raul Ibanez hit a three-run homer and Hisashi Iwakuma struck out nine in seven innings as host Seattle handed Oakland its fifth straight loss. Iwakuma (4-1) gave up a leadoff...

The Sports Xchange By Scott Johnson, The Sports Xchange Mariners 6, A's 3 SEATTLE -- Hisashi Iwakuma hasn't needed a whole lot of offensive help this season, but the Seattle Mariners provided some on Friday night. Seattle broke out of a three-game...

The Sports Xchange By Scott Johnson, The Sports Xchange Iwakuma delivers strong outing for Mariners SEATTLE -- Hisashi Iwakuma gave the Seattle Mariners a typical pitching performance on Friday night. Only this time it came with a different ending....

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Oakland Athletics - INSIDE PITCH The Athletics got swept in four games at Cleveland after a 9-2 loss Thursday, but the team fully believed they'd tied up the third of the four games in the ninth inning on a homer...

Here's something you might not know about the infamous Angel Hernandez game: The A's had a great chance to win the game even after Hernandez and his fellow umpires twice blew the call on what would have been a game-tying home run. Chris Perez, the...