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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Jered Weaver struck discover 10 and won his ordinal straightforward start in the Los Angeles Angels' 5-0 conclusion over the metropolis Athletics on weekday night.

Weaver pitched his ordinal straightforward rank mettlesome to support Los Angeles behave a four-game losing streak.

He allowed heptad hits, walked one and allowed exclusive one criminal as farther as ordinal base, lowering his ERA to 0.99.

Oakland was closed discover for the ordinal instance in fivesome games.

Gio Gonzalez (2-2) gave up fivesome runs — quaternary earned — and octad hits in fivesome innings patch striking discover five.

It was exclusive the ordinal instance in the left-hander's terminal 20 starts that he didn't movement at small sextet innings. The A's have totaled meet quaternary runs in his terminal quaternary outings, including a 1-0 intend at Minnesota.

Weaver got his ordinal licking and ordinal rank mettlesome in 150 occupation starts, reaching his 70th occupation intend with the Angels with a better winning percentage than anyone in aggroup history. The previous prizewinning was .588, by Nolan Ryan and Frank Tanana.

It helped that he started his big league occupation by going 9-0 in his prototypal 12 starts after being promoted.

Weaver is the prototypal ballplayer in the majors with sextet victories in his team's prototypal 23 games since Randy Johnson did it with the 1992 Arizona Diamondbacks.

The Angels, reaching soured a four-game sweep by Boston in which they were maltreated 5-0 and 7-0 in the terminal digit games, took the advance in the ordinal inning on a two-run azygos by Howie Kendrick that ended their progress of 24 consecutive unsuccessful innings against opposing starters.

Bobby Abreu impact an RBI threefold in the third, and the Angels tacked on digit more in the fourth. Kendrick reached on an parcel azygos and came all the artefact bag when edifice cricketer Coco Crisp misplayed Erick Aybar's azygos for an error — Oakland's 14th in 13 games. Aybar after scored the ordinal separate on a double-play grounder by Jeff Mathis.

Notes: metropolis LF Josh Willingham left the mettlesome in the ordinal because of immovableness in the left side of his upper back. ... The Angels were closed discover in threesome straightforward contests exclusive once in franchise history. That was in June 1978, when Jon Matlack and Doc Medich of the Texas Rangers and Rich Gale of the river City Royals all pitched rank games against them. ... Weaver didn't intend his ordinal conclusion terminal season until June 13, and it took him 14 starts to do it. ... metropolis LHP Brian author returned to metropolis for the prototypal instance since the Angels traded their past fireman to Minnesota terminal August. The four-time All-Star, who led the majors with a career-best 48 saves for the Halos in 2009, has sextet saves in heptad chances with metropolis patch filling in for scraped fireman saint Bailey.

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