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Jharel CottonThe A’s have had one of the lowest batting averages all season and were hitting .232 as a team before getting a season-high 16 hits off six Rangers pitchers.
Marte singled in the first and had an RBI double in the third. He is batting .421 since the All-Star break, tops in the majors.Oakland began the day three games behind Houston in the AL West. “There’s still two months to go. While we may be somewhere within the top two spots of the wild card, the division is not out of hand for us,” said Harrison, another of the A’s trade deadline acquisitions. “We’re in a good spot and we control our fate.”
Irvin struck out four, walked two and allowed one hit over his final six innings. All eight of his wins have come when the A’s score three or more. “That first inning, that was pretty bad. I was up in the zone, the changeup was hanging,” Irvin said. “I had to continue to think we were in a 1-0 ballgame and put up zeroes.” gave up four runs in two innings.Marte has been stellar defensively for Oakland since being acquired from the Miami Marlins and proved it again. The A’s center fielder chased down Andy Ibañez’s deep fly in the first and caught the ball as he jumped and slammed into the wall in left-center.
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