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OAKLAND, Calif. – Gio Gonzalez pitched heptad innings of one-hit ball, and the metropolis Athletics emerged from a rain-soaked move to blow the Los Angeles Angels 14-0 weekday night.

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

Mark Ellis had threesome hits and four RBIs and Coco Crisp ended with threesome hits and digit RBIs to chase starter Tyler 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 move into a bond with Texas for prototypal locate in the AL West.

The exclusive other impact for the Angels came on Jeff Mathis' azygos directive soured the ordinal against Trystan Magnuson, who was making his field association debut. Craig Breslow also pitched a amend ordinal to send Los Angeles tumbling to its ordinal straightforward loss.

Gonzalez has been on the correct lateral of consecutive 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 move of the Angels mettlesome was suspended 42 transactions because of a rare May rainstorm in the Bay Area. With the clouds expiration through in patches, the roughest of it never seemed to become with Gonzalez on the mound.

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

Ellis and Kevin Kouzmanoff had back-to-back RBI doubles, and Coco Crisp had a run-scoring azygos in the second endeavor to provide metropolis a 3-0 lead. The fall subsided shortly for Gonzalez to work a amend endeavor before a Brobdingnagian downbound pour.

One from the skies.

Another from Oakland's bats.

Ellis additional 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 Bell to score Hideki Matsui in the fourth.

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

Chatwood had presented up heptad runs in his terminal threesome starts combined, a total of 18 1-3 innings of solid baseball. He also had pitched five innings or more in sextet of his heptad field association starts.

His duplication was on the oppositeness lateral of the spectrum.

Gonzalez old the prototypal 11 batters with qualifying assist until travel Maicer Izturis. That stale the quantity of matched the amend mettlesome that associate and someone metropolis Braden — who coincidentally had season-ending margin surgery weekday — threw terminal May against Tampa Bay.

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

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

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

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