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Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, left, answers questions from a reporter at a press conference to announce the re-signing of former Athletics' slugger Jason Giambi, center, who spent seven years in New York with the Yankees before returning to Oakland as a free agent, Wednesday, Jan.

Posted by: Matt Dollinger July 7, 2009, 2:13 PM With baseball honoring its All-Stars next week, I've decided to honor the game's No-Stars this week.

CLEVELAND: Just when Ben Francisco was beginning to slide off the Indians' radar screen, he has forced his attention on manager Eric Wedge and General Manager Mark Shapiro, shifting their gaze away from Matt LaPorta, who is laboring in Columbus.

Gio Gonzalez pitched six strong innings for his first win of the season and the Oakland Athletics beat the Cleveland Indians 5-2 on Sunday.

Picked up in early May to fill in for injured second baseman Mark Ellis, Adam Kennedy made his first career start at third base when Ellis came off the disabled list Sunday, and he's been on the hot corner all week.

Taiwan s Ni Fu-te of the Detroit Tigers pitches against the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday in Oakland, California.

It's never an easy decision when a studio head has to pull the plug on a big movie, as Amy Pascal did recently when she shut down "Moneyball," a $58 million Steven Soderbergh film set to star Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the maverick general manager of the Oakland A's who almost single-handedly reinvented the way baseball scouts and develops young ...

Jason Giambi and Jack Cust broke out of funks with two-run homers, Dallas Braden ended a four-start winless stretch and the Oakland Athletics beat the Detroit Tigers 5-1 Wednesday.

Taiwanese sidearming lefty Ni Fu-te yesterday made his Major League Baseball debut as a reliever for the Detroit Tigers during a game versus the Oakland Athletics, making him the sixth major leaguer from Taiwan, and the first Taiwanese pitcher in the Tigers' history.

On a night the A's honored their 1989 team, the one that beat San Francisco to win the World Series, the present-day Giants went out and squashed the A's hopes time and again at the Coliseum.

The stage was set for Matt Holliday as he stepped into the batter's box with runners on the corners and the A's down by three runs with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning.

OAKLAND, Calif. - What if the 1989 Giants had Tim Lincecum to run out against Dave Stewart? "It'd have been really interesting, and I'll leave it at that," said Carney Lansford, the Giants' hitting coach and '89 A's third baseman.

Tim Lincecum had 12 strikeouts and threw his fourth career complete game, shutting down Oakland for the second time this year, as the Giants beat the Athletics, 4-1, in the middle installment of a three-game series.

A's manager Bob Geren said he didn't start Jason Giambi on Monday night because the 38-year-old first baseman/designated hitter's "body is a little sore." The natural question that followed: What part of his body? Geren's comedic response: "Uh huh.

Edgar Gonzalez became the first A's reliever in 39 years to record two hits in a game Friday night.

Orlando Cabrera's two-run double in the eighth inning gave Oakland the lead, and the Athletics took a 7-5 win over the San Diego Padres in the opener of a three-game interleague set.

OAKLAND The Athletics ' game-winning rally Thursday afternoon unfolded in unlikely fashion, and the characters involved weren't the usual suspects either.

Though they showed signs of breaking out of their offensive slump, the Athletics still couldn't avoid a fourth straight loss.

After failing to muster much offense this past weekend, the Oakland Athletics hope to get on track versus the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight in the start of a three-game series at Chavez Ravine.