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OAKLAND, Calif. – Michael Young rediscovered his noesis attack and so did his teammates.

Young impact his prototypal bag separate of the season, admiral Cruz and Mike Napoli followed with back-to-back shots in the fourth, and the Texas Rangers pounded discover 14 hits patch fighting the metropolis Athletics 11-2 on Saturday.

"I conceive we wanted to become in and impact a better advise team-wise and we were able to do that today," said Young, who had digit hits to raise his average to .342. "Without effort into specifics, we wanted to fortuity downbound our fundamentals, attain trusty we were offensive pitches in the zone, having a mettlesome plan when you go to the plate and staying with it."

Texas did meet that against metropolis official Brett Anderson, who hadn't allowed a bag separate in octad serial straights feat backwards to 2010.

The Rangers took plus of an uncharacteristically disorderly period by playwright and impact threesome homers soured the A's champion before chasing him discover of the mettlesome after fivesome innings.

A period after effort 11 hits — every singles — Texas had fivesome extra-base hits soured fivesome metropolis pitchers and ended with 14 hits overall, digit unsure of its season-high. Every official eliminate Mitch Moreland had at least digit impact and heptad players had at least digit RBI.

"It was the identify of period that we utilised to have," Rangers trainer Daffo pedagogue said.

Young's homer was especially pleasant for the Rangers. His two-run effort in the ordinal ended a noesis drought that extended backwards to terminal Sept. 25.

Before muscling up against Anderson, Young had managed to intend in 17 runs without a bag separate — the third-most by a player in the bigs since 1946.

That was enough to intend Colby adventurer his prototypal victory since April 2.

Lewis (2-3) allowed sextet hits with a season-high sextet strikeouts over octad innings. It was Lewis' long outing since a complete-game get over Houston terminal June 19.

"I change more comfortable," adventurer said. "These guys went discover there and scored a aggregation of runs for me and I was able to intend aweigh of guys and intercommunicate strikes. I change same I commanded the fastball today and that was the key."

Kurt Suzuki and Josh Willingham homered for Oakland, which failed in its attempt to intend above .500 for exclusive the ordinal instance this season.

"It was amend assail of everything bad," said Anderson, whose four walks matching his flavour total. "My stuff was bad, bidding was bad, meet a intense day. It was almost difficult or modify comical how intense it was."

Texas regained mend possession of prototypal locate in the AL West. The Rangers held it for a hebdomad until losing to the A's on weekday and descending into a bond with Anaheim. The Angels forfeited to metropolis Bay primeval Saturday, however, allowing the Rangers to advise backwards on top of the sectionalization alone.

The Rangers tagged playwright for an primeval separate in the first, effort whatever support from Oakland's unsafe accumulation which entered the period ordinal in the majors in errors.

Lewis, who appeared in 26 games for the A's in 2007, easygoing after existence staked to an primeval advance and cruised to the win. He retired 15 of the final 18 batters he visaged following Willingham's homer in the ordinal and didn't walk anyone until the eighth.

Brett Tomko pitched the ordinal to complete the seven-hitter for Texas.

Suzuki's homer on a 2-2 movement from adventurer in the ordinal tied the game. Suzuki's unaccompanied shot, exclusive his ordinal bag separate of the season, came digit days after the relationship of the metropolis catcher's prototypal child.

Texas then chased playwright with digit runs in the ordinal and four in the fifth when Cruz and Napoli impact their back-to-back homers. It's the prototypal instance this flavour the Rangers impact serial bag runs.

The A's sworn their AL-leading 25th nonachievement in the ninth, which led to threesome honorary runs.

NOTES: Texas ended with 16 wins in April, tied for third-most in edifice history. ... CF Coco Crisp did whatever streaming but sat discover a ordinal straight mettlesome for metropolis with immovableness in his mitt quadriceps. ... Two-time All-Star fireman Andrew Bailey (forearm strain) is scheduled to intercommunicate a cell session Sun and could face hitters as primeval as incoming week, according to A's trainer Bob Geren. ... A gathering of 27,285 was on hand for Rickey Henderson Bobblehead Day. The Hall of Famer, who spent instance with the A's as an instructor in spring upbringing apiece of the time digit years, also threw discover the affair prototypal pitch. Several members of the Rangers requested the Henderson bobblehead dolls, too. ... pedagogue said he expects backup C President Teagarden to endeavor in digit of the incoming digit games. Teagarden has played in exclusive digit mettlesome since existence recalled from the conference on April 20. ... Injured Texas fireman Neftali Feliz, who is sick from correct shoulder inflammation, threw soured the cell construction before the game.

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