Seth Smith (baseball)

MLB Team Report - Oakland Athletics - INSIDE PITCH Dan Straily had been more about hype than substance. Now he's about substance, too. Straily pitched the game of his life Tuesday night, tossing seven scoreless innings to beat the Rangers 1-0. He gave...

ARLINGTON, Texas Dan Straily pitched the best game of his fledgling major league career Tuesday night, allowing just two singles over seven shutout innings as the A's beat the Texas Rangers and ace Yu Darvish 1-0. The 24-year-old right-hander, still a...

ARLINGTON, Texas Dan Straily tuned in to the MLB Network in his hotel room Tuesday to hear all the hype about Texas Rangers ace Yu Darvish's upcoming start that night. The A's rookie right-hander said he wasn't even mentioned by name as Darvish's mound...

LF Yoenis Cespedes reached base safely three times on a pair of walks and a double. He is a career .338 (26-77) hitter against the Rangers. He successfully stole second base in the first inning, snapping a streak of four straight unsuccessful steal...

Yu Darvish seeks his sixth consecutive victory when the Texas Rangers host the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday in the second contest of a three-game set. Darvish looks to join Tampa Bay’s Matt Moore as the only major-league hurlers with eight victories....

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Athletics 9, Rangers 2 Athletics 9, Rangers 2: Seth Smith homered and Bartolo Colon pitched seven solid innings as visiting Oakland defeated Texas for its fourth straight victory. Smith reached base four times on two hits and...

The Sports Xchange By Art Garcia, The Sports Xchange A's 9, Rangers 2 ARLINGTON, Texas -- Bartolo Colon held the Texas Rangers in check and Coco Crisp collected three hits in the Oakland A's 9-2 win Monday night in the series opener at Rangers...

The Sports Xchange By Art Garcia, The Sports Xchange Colon pushes Oakland's winning streak to four ARLINGTON, Texas -- Oakland A's manager Bob Melvin asked Bartolo Colon how he was doing after the sixth inning Monday night. Colon answered, "How are...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Oakland Athletics - INSIDE PITCH Chris Young returned to Oakland's lineup on Saturday, but the outfielder is still not contributing much, and another recent returnee, Coco Crisp, also hasn't caught fire since...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Oakland Athletics - INSIDE PITCH Brett Anderson has missed large chunks of the past three years with injuries and a new one might cost him the rest of this season. Anderson has a stress fracture in his right foot,...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Oakland Athletics - INSIDE PITCH With Brett Anderson's ankle a lingering problem, Dan Straily will remain in Oakland's rotation -- at least for now. Straily didn't make it out of the fifth inning on Wednesday, and...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Oakland Athletics - INSIDE PITCH Oakland has been in something of a free-fall since starting off the season 12-4 -- the A's are now 20-22 and seven games behind the Texas Rangers, a season-high. The A's, though, can...