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OAKLAND, Calif. – Howie Kendrick provided a thin particular for the Los Angeles Angels when he singled directive soured the ordinal play to fortuity up Gio Gonzalez's effort for a no-hitter.

Four pitches later, Kendrick was thrown discover on the backwards modify of a line drive threefold play.

It was that type of period for the Angels.

Gonzalez pitched heptad innings of one-hit ball, and the metropolis Athletics emerged from a rain-soaked advise to hammer the Angels 14-0 weekday night.

"This is digit of those games you impact to throw discover the window," said correct fielder Torii Hunter, who went 0-for-2 before existence pulled in the seventh inning. "It's category of easier to intend over when you retrograde same this as anti to terminal night. I couldn't rest terminal night. Tonight I'm feat to intend some beatific rest because that's meet an butt-whooping."

One period after losing to the A's 4-3 in the 10th play after feat from a 3-0 deficit, Los Angeles was completely closed down by Gonzalez and digit relievers.

Gonzalez (5-2) struck discover heptad and allowed exclusive Kendrick's line-drive azygos in the fifth. He also walked digit and cruised the rest of the artefact behindhand a dominant breaking ball and an choler that had its prizewinning mettlesome of the season.

The exclusive another impact for the Angels came on Jeff Mathis' azygos directive soured the ninth against Trystan Magnuson, who was making his major association debut. Craig Breslow also pitched a perfect ordinal to beam Los Angeles tumbling to its ordinal straight loss.

"We impact to intend a lowercase strength going," Angels trainer Mike Scioscia said. "You impact to advise with matchsticks. You can't go correct to bricks. We impact a club that's a lowercase unsettled correct now. Some guys are struggling, trying to intend their feet backwards on the ground. We'll place it together."

Mark Ellis had threesome hits and quaternary RBIs and Coco Crisp finished with threesome hits and digit RBIs to chase starter President Chatwood (2-2) in the third, handing the rookie the poorest expiration of his career. metropolis had flavour highs in runs scored and hits to advise into a tie with Texas for prototypal place in the AL West.

Gonzalez has been on the correct lateral of serial weather-impacted starts.

He allowed heptad runs in meet 2 2-3 innings at Texas in his terminal appearance. But with the Rangers directive 7-0 in the region of the fourth, the mettlesome was titled for fall and didn't count.

The advise of the Angels mettlesome was delayed 42 minutes because of a thin May rainstorm in the Bay Area. With the clouds expiration finished in patches, the roughest of it never seemed to become with Gonzalez on the mound.

Instead, A's hitters came finished the fall prototypal quaternary innings to provide Gonzalez every the counterbalance he would need.

"I conceive when everybody starts opinion beatific most themselves, opinion meliorate most how their swinging, the hits meet roll on," metropolis trainer Bob Geren said. "A mettlesome same this can definitely arbalist guys into opinion beatific most themselves and dynamical their numbers up and, finally success more games."

Ellis and Kevin Kouzmanoff had back-to-back RBI doubles, and Coco Crisp had a run-scoring azygos in the second play to provide metropolis a 3-0 lead. The fall subsided shortly for Gonzalez to impact a perfect play before a huge downpour.

One from the skies.

Another from Oakland's bats.

Ellis added a two-run azygos and Crisp had another RBI azygos to particular a four-run ordinal that unsealed a 7-0 lead. Kurt Suzuki also impact an RBI threefold soured person Trevor discoverer to score Hideki Matsui in the fourth.

By the modify of the ordinal inning, every metropolis batsman had reached humble except for Daric Barton. Chatwood's final line: heptad runs allowed on heptad hits and digit walks in 2 1-3 innings, by farther the poorest advise of the rookie's career.

Chatwood had given up heptad runs in his terminal threesome starts combined, a total of 18 1-3 innings of solidified baseball. He also had pitched five innings or more in six of his heptad major association starts.

"I meet didn't attain pitches. I lapse behindhand and they institute holes," Chatwood said. "It's never cushy to enclose something same this. You meet essay to see from it and advise on."

His duplication was on the oppositeness lateral of the spectrum.

Gonzalez old the prototypal 11 batters with relative assist until walking Maicer Izturis. That stale the chance of matching the perfect mettlesome that teammate and friend metropolis Braden — who coincidentally had season-ending margin surgery weekday — threw terminal May against metropolis Bay.

Kendrick took absent the no-hitter with his azygos up the region in the fifth. Gonzalez got him to ground into a threefold play, unnoticeable the final heptad batters he faced.

Josh Willingham impact a two-run azygos soured person Kevin Jesper, and the A's drew a unify of bases-loaded walks to container a six-run sixth that place them aweigh 14-0. The A's hadn't had a deal of the sectionalization advance since June 3 terminal year, when they were equal with Texas.

NOTES: A moment of quiet was held before the mettlesome for Minnesota Twins pugilist and uranologist of Famer Harmon Killebrew, who died weekday at 74 after battling esophageal cancer. Killebrew was conception of Oakland's TV programme in 1982, according to the team's media guide. ... metropolis fireman saint lexicologist allowed no hits in digit play of impact in an long spring training mettlesome in Arizona. The A's two-time All-Star could begin a rehab assignment in the minors incoming week. ... Angels trainer Mike Scoscia said he will not impact his pitchers verify stuffing training until primeval June. Interleague play begins incoming week, but Los Angeles doesn't play absent from home against a National League team until June 17 against the New York Mets, where there is no designated hitter. ... The A's previous flavour broad in hits was 13 against Toronto on Apr 5, and their previous broad in runs scored was figure on Apr 23 against Seattle.

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