October 10, 2012: A's 6 Yankees 4 (A's lead series, 2-1)

The A's took advantage of Yankee Stadium's homer friendliness, especially for left handed hitters, as Brandon Moss, Josh Reddick, Seth Smith and George Kotteras all went deep in a 6-4 win. Russell Martin and Ichiro Suzuki of the Yankees also got in on the action and pulled the Yankees within 2 in the bottom of the 8th, but Grant Balfour entered for the A's and allowed just one walk en route to the last 5 outs and his first save of the series.

The Yankees will send Phil Hughes to the mound in a must-win game 4. The A's will counter with Jarrod Parker, who made easy work of the Blue Jays in the wild card game.

BOXSCORE: 2012 Oakland Athletics At 2012 New York (AL) Yankees     10/10/2012
 
  Athletics          AB  R  H RBI AVG     Yankees            AB  R  H RBI AVG
  C.Crisp CF          4  0  2  0 .353     D.Jeter SS          4  2  2  0 .250  
  S.Drew SS           3  0  1  1 .286     I.Suzuki LF         4  1  2  2 .385  
  Y.Cespedes LF       4  0  0  0 .143     A.Rodriguez 3B      4  0  0  0 .091  
  B.Moss 1B           4  1  1  1 .214     R.Cano 2B           4  0  1  1 .182  
  J.Reddick RF        4  1  1  1 .267     N.Swisher RF        3  0  1  0 .364  
  J.Donaldson 3B      4  1  1  0 .143     M.Teixeira 1B       4  0  0  0 .091  
  S.Smith DH          4  1  2  2 .286     C.Granderson CF     4  0  1  0 .111  
  G.Kottaras C        4  1  1  1 .250     R.Martin C          4  1  1  1 .111  
  C.Pennington 2B     3  1  0  0 .143     R.Ibanez DH         3  0  0  0 .000  
                     -- -- -- ---                            -- -- -- ---      
         Totals      34  6  9  6                 Totals      34  4  8  4
 
 
Athletics....... 0 0 1  2 1 0  1 1 0  -  6  9  0
Yankees......... 0 0 0  0 0 1  0 3 0  -  4  8  0
 
Athletics (3-1)          IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
A.Griffin WIN(1-0)        6       5   1   1   0   1   0  82   1.50
J.Blevins                 1 1/3   3   3   3   0   2   2  27   6.75
G.Balfour SAVE(1st)       1 2/3   0   0   0   1   1   0  21   2.08
Totals                    9       8   4   4   1   4   2
 
Yankees (1-2)            IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
H.Kuroda LOSS(0-1)        8       9   6   5   0   5   4 109   5.63
B.Logan                   1       0   0   0   0   0   0  12   0.00
Totals                    9       9   6   5   0   5   4
 
ATTENDANCE- 47,967 DATE- Wednesday, October 10th 2012 TIME- Night WEATHER- Average
UMPIRES- Mike Everitt, Paul Schrieber, Tim Welke, Laz Diaz
T- 2:58
LEFT ON BASE- Athletics: 3  Yankees: 4
DOUBLE PLAYS- Athletics: 0  Yankees: 0
DOUBLES- J.Donaldson(1st), D.Jeter(1st), R.Cano(1st), N.Swisher(2nd)
HOME RUNS- B.Moss(2nd), J.Reddick(1st), S.Smith(1st), G.Kottaras(1st),
           I.Suzuki(1st), R.Martin(1st)
RBIs- S.Drew(2nd), B.Moss(3rd), J.Reddick(4th), S.Smith-2(3rd), G.Kottaras(1st),
      I.Suzuki-2(3rd), R.Cano(1st), R.Martin(1st)
CAUGHT STEALING- C.Crisp
SACRIFICE FLIES- S.Drew
WALKS- N.Swisher
HIT BY PITCH- C.Pennington
STRIKE OUTS- C.Crisp, S.Drew, Y.Cespedes, B.Moss, J.Donaldson, A.Rodriguez,
             N.Swisher, C.Granderson, R.Ibanez
2-out RBI- S.Smith, R.Cano, J.Reddick
RLISP 2-out- B.Moss, R.Martin
WEB GEMS- Top 6th: Nick Swisher robbed Brandon Moss of a Homerun!
 
Seth Smith went deep and had 2 RBI as the Oakland Athletics bested the New
York (AL) Yankees 6 to 4 at Yankee Stadium.
 
Oakland took the lead for keeps in the 3rd inning scoring a single run.
George Kottaras providing the offense himself as he belted a solo home run.
Oakland had a total of 9 hits for the game.  
 
A.J. Griffin(1-0) got credit for the victory, pitching 6 innings and allowing
1 run. Grant Balfour recorded the save, his 1st.  Hiroki Kuroda(0-1) suffered
the loss.  He allowed 4 homeruns in 8 innings of work.