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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Adam Piatt, recalled from the minors earlier in the day, got a bases-loaded hit in the 12th inning as the Oakland Athletics beat the New York Yankees 3-2 Tuesday night.
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Frank Menechino opened the inning with a single off Ramiro
Mendoza (2-1). Jason Giambi and Terrence Long walked before Piatt
lined the ball past third baseman Scott Brosius.
The A's rushed out of the dugout to congratulate Piatt, who was
banished to Triple-A Sacramento two weeks ago after a slow start in
his right-field platoon with Jeremy Giambi. When Giambi left the
game in the third inning with tightness in his left hamstring,
Piatt stepped in and got two hits.
The Yankees opened a six-game West Coast road trip by losing for just the fourth time in 11 games. Oakland won for the fifth time in seven games, improving the AL's worst home record to 5-11.
Oakland's bullpen has regained its form after a shaky April. Mike Magnante, Jeff Tam, Jason Isringhausen, T.J. Mathews and Mark Guthrie (2-0) pitched five scoreless innings.
The Yankees returned to the Coliseum for the first time since a 7-5 victory in Game 5 of last fall's AL division series. It was the only postseason elimination game faced by the Yankees, who won their fourth World Series championship in five years.
Despite the popular Yankees' presence and a stellar pitching
matchup between Roger Clemens and Tim Hudson, just 24,351 were in
attendance. Those who came saw a well-played game with a playoff
atmosphere -- and even a testy moment, thanks to a strange pitch by
Clemens and an even stranger injury.
John Jaha strained a left thigh muscle in the fifth inning when
Clemens threw a pitch two feet over his head, and Jaha's knee
buckled as he ducked to avoid it. Jaha, who had season-ending
shoulder surgery last July, just returned from a rehab stint last
week.
Clemens may have been responding to Hudson's brushback pitch to
Brosius one inning earlier. Neither pitcher was warned by the
umpires.
Both starters were hit fairly solidly, but prevented any big
innings. Hudson allowed 10 hits and struck out six in seven-plus
innings.
Clemens had a season-high nine strikeouts -- striking out the side in the fifth -- to give him 3,558 for his career, 16 behind Don Sutton for fifth place on the career list. He gave up seven hits and two walks in seven innings.
Oakland got two runs in the first. Jaha's double scored Johnny Damon, who stole second and third base, and Long added a sacrifice fly.
New York got a run on Alfonso Soriano's RBI double in the
second, and David Justice tied it with a sacrifice fly in the
sixth.
Oakland almost won in the ninth, but Yankees reliever Mike
Stanton got out of the jam thanks to Chuck Knoblauch's accurate
throwing arm.
Eric Chavez, who doubled when Knoblauch couldn't catch up to his
sinking liner in left, tried to score on a short fly by Menechino.
But Knoblauch's expertly placed throw beat him to the plate by
three strides. Knoblauch was moved to the outfield this season
because of his inability to throw from second base.
New York was without center fielder Bernie Williams, who won't
return from Puerto Rico until at least Friday after his father's
death. Robert Perez, brought up from Triple-A Columbus earlier in
the day, got two hits and struck out four times.
Game notes
The Yankees' 7-8-9 hitters -- Soriano, Perez and Brosius -- struck out 11 times. ... A's catcher Hernandez, who threw out just
three of 34 base-stealers this season, threw out Justice in the
fourth inning and Perez in the seventh. The Yankees entered the
game with 46 stolen bases, tops in the majors. ... Giambi extended
his hitting streak to seven games with a third-inning single.
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Detroit 3
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