I said Oakland couldn’t keep winning games in the ninth inning. So instead, they took it to a twelfth in their 3-2 win over Toronto to complete the three-game sweep.
Oakland’s eight hits and Toronto’s 11 just couldn’t be strung together to create any runs, and the teams went eleven innings, each only scoring one run. It wasn’t until the top of the twelfth inning that a breakthrough finally happened. With two outs and runners on second and third base, Travis Buck stepped up to the plate and pounded out a double, to take a 3-1 lead. In the bottom of that same inning, Toronto pulled out two hits and a run, but came up short, and lost another heartbreaker to the A’s. Buck had all three of Oakland’s RBIs of the night.
Oakland opens a three game series today in Cleveland.
