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Healy bounced a ground-rule RBI double to right-center with two outs in the ninth inning Saturday night to give the A's a 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners after Smith pitched six solid innings.

Stanton and J.T. Realmuto homered to back another strong start by Straily, and Miami beat the San Francisco Giants 6-1.

Cruz drove in five runs, including his milestone homer, James Paxton allowed two hits over seven innings and the Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 7-2 on Friday night, snapping a four-game skid.

Myers met with reporters Friday for the first time since a parade in downtown Oakland celebrating the Warriors' second championship in three years. During the 20-minute session, Myers touched on several topics but repeatedly turned the conversation to Dur

Blach took a shutout into the seventh inning, and the Giants held off a late Detroit rally in beating the Tigers 5-4 on Wednesday night. Blach allowed only three hits in the first six innings.

Sanchez pitched six strong innings, and Dixon Machado hit his first career home run to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 6-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Thursday.

Khris Davis hit a three-run homer, Blackburn pitched one-run ball into the eighth inning for his first major league victory and the Oakland Athletics beat the slumping Mariners 7-4 on Thursday night.

All the talk about salary caps and luxury taxes is when the game of basketball becomes a business. It's one of the reasons more and more front offices are being led by former stat analysts instead of former stat stuffers.