John Jaso

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 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...

The Sports Xchange By Art Garcia, The Sports Xchange Straily, A's edge Rangers, Darvish ARLINGTON, Texas -- Fans who expected a dominating performance on the hill Tuesday night at Rangers Ballpark got just that. It just wasn't the guy they expected....

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...

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...

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 05/19/2013 MLB Note - Houston Astros Harrell, Lucas NEXT: Astros (Lucas Harrell 3-4, 5.11) at Pirates (Jeff Locke 3-1, 3.15) ----------------------------------------------- MLB Note - Houston Astros Elmore, Jake --INF Jake Elmore...

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 A's 2, Royals 1 OAKLAND, Calif. -- The last time Adam Rosales hit a homer, it wound up not counting after a replay flap at Cleveland on May 8. On Friday night at the Coliseum, Rosales knocked a clear homer over the wall in left field...

Rosales' 'no-doubter' lifts Athletics past Royals Oakland -- Kansas City starter James Shields made only two mistakes over the middle of the plate on Friday night at the Oakland Coliseum, and Josh Donaldson and Adam Rosales put both of them over the...

OAKLAND, Calif. _ Adam Rosales homered to lead off the bottom of the eighth inning, snapping a tie and carrying the Athletics to a 2-1 win over the Kansas City Royals in the first of a three-game series Friday night. The Rosales home run, his second...