October 8, 2012: A's 1 Yankees 0 (series tied, 1-1)

What a game in Oakland! Brett Anderson and Andy Pettitte lock horns in a pitchers duel with both putting up donuts through 8. Pettitte had allowed just 2 hits and struck out 11, while Anderson had allowed just 1 hit and struck out 4. Grant Balfour took the hill in the 9th and it looked like a mistake, as he walked the first 2 batters and then gave up a sac bunt to put the go-ahead run on 3rd with one out. Ryan Cook entered in relief of Balfour and induced 2 ground balls - the first one went to 3rd and then got the runner at the plate for the 2nd out, while the 2nd ground ball was an easy 4-3 for the 3rd out.

Pettitte stayed out for the bottom of the 9th, and Jonny Gomes greeted him with a blast far and deep to win the game. Both games in this series have been won on walk-offs, and that's before the series moves to homer-friendly Yankee Stadium for the next 3 games!

BOXSCORE: 2012 New York (AL) Yankees At 2012 Oakland Athletics      10/8/2012
 
  Yankees            AB  R  H RBI AVG     Athletics          AB  R  H RBI AVG
  D.Jeter SS          4  0  0  0 .125     C.Crisp CF          4  0  0  0 .308  
  I.Suzuki LF         4  0  0  0 .333     J.Gomes DH          4  1  2  1 .286  
  A.Rodriguez 3B      3  0  0  0 .143     J.Reddick RF        3  0  0  0 .273  
  R.Cano 2B           3  0  1  0 .143     Y.Cespedes LF       3  0  1  0 .200  
  N.Swisher RF        3  0  0  0 .375     B.Moss 1B           3  0  0  0 .200  
  M.Teixeira 1B       3  0  0  0 .143     J.Donaldson 3B      3  0  0  0 .100  
  R.Martin C          2  0  0  0 .000     D.Norris C          2  0  0  0 .222  
A-F.Cervelli PH       0  0  0  0 ----     S.Drew SS           3  0  0  0 .273  
B-B.Gardner PR        0  0  0  0 ----     J.Weeks 2B          3  0  0  0 .000  
C-E.Chavez C          0  0  0  01.000                                          
  C.Granderson CF     2  0  0  0 .000                                          
  E.Nunez DH          2  0  0  0 .200                                          
                     -- -- -- ---                            -- -- -- ---      
         Totals      26  0  1  0                 Totals      28  1  3  1
 
A-Pinch Hit For Martin In 9th Inning
B-Pinch Ran For Cervelli In 9th Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Gardner In 9th Inning
 
Yankees......... 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 0  -  0  1  1
Athletics....... 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 1  -  1  3  0
 
Yankees (1-1)            IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
A.Pettitte LOSS(0-1)      8       3   1   1   1  11   1 105   1.13
Totals                    8       3   1   1   1  11   1
 
Athletics (2-1)          IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
B.Anderson                8       1   0   0   0   4   0  73   0.00
G.Balfour                 0 1/3   0   0   0   2   0   0  16   3.38
R.Cook WIN(1-0)           0 2/3   0   0   0   0   0   0   7   0.00
Totals                    9       1   0   0   2   4   0
 
ATTENDANCE- 32,368 DATE- Monday, October 8th 2012 TIME- Night WEATHER- Average
UMPIRES- Doug Eddings, Paul Nauert, Dana Demuth, Kerwin Danley
T- 2:31
LEFT ON BASE- Yankees: 2  Athletics: 4
DOUBLE PLAYS- Yankees: 1  Athletics: 1
ERRORS- A.Rodriguez
HOME RUNS- J.Gomes(1st)
RBIs- J.Gomes(1st)
SACRIFICE HITS- E.Nunez
WALKS- F.Cervelli, C.Granderson, D.Norris
STRIKE OUTS- D.Jeter, A.Rodriguez-2, R.Cano, C.Crisp, J.Gomes, J.Reddick-2,
             Y.Cespedes, J.Donaldson, D.Norris, S.Drew-2, J.Weeks-2
GIDP- N.Swisher, B.Moss
RLISP 2-out- I.Suzuki
WEB GEMS- Top 1st: Jemile Weeks robbed Derek Jeter of a base hit.
          Bot 2nd: Robinson Cano robbed Brandon Moss of a base hit.
 
Brett Anderson had an impressive outing at O.co Coliseum as the Oakland
Athletics won in their last at-bat beating the New York (AL) Yankees by the
count of 1 to 0.
 
The game was won by Oakland when they scored a run in the 9th inning.  Jonny
Gomes smashed a solo-shot out of the park giving Oakland the victory and
sending the 32,368 home-town fans home happy.  Oakland had just 3 hits for
the night.  
 
Ryan Cook(1-0) got the win allowing no runs in 2/3 of an inning. Andy
Pettitte(0-1) was tagged with the loss.  He struck out 11 batters in 8
innings despite losing the game.