Nomar Garciaparra News

1913-Eddie Plank tossed a two-hitter against the New York Giants to give the Philadelphia Athletics a 3-1 victory and the World Series in five games.

A's players trickled out of the Oakland Coliseum following Sunday's 5-3 season-ending loss to the Los Angeles Angels.

Mike Napoli homered and scored three times, as the American League West champion LA Angels of Anaheim tuned up for the postseason with a 5-3 win over the Athletics to complete a three-game sweep in the regular season finale for both clubs.

Jered Weaver's spark plugs, air filter and brake fluid look fine. The right-hander looked sharp in his final tuneup for the playoffs Friday night, throwing five shutout innings with five strikeouts and no walks in the Angels' 5-2 victory over the Oakland Athletics.

Brett Anderson pitched six shutout innings and had a career-high 10 strikeouts, Nomar Garciaparra added two hits and an RBI and the Oakland Athletics stayed hot with a 2-1 win over the slumping Cleveland Indians on Friday night.

After Friday's series opener against the Twins, Oakland infielder Adam Kennedy has now played 30 career games in the Metrodome, second most on the A's behind Eric Chavez's 41.

Knowing they'd be featuring a starting rotation loaded with youth, the A's brought in a slew of established hitters before the season, hoping the prospect of decent run support would take some pressure off the pups.

The Mariners right fielder moved one step closer to baseball history, picking up a pair of hits to move within four of 2,000 for his career during Seattle's 6-3 win over the Oakland Athletics on Friday night, then casually downplayed his impending milestone.

It's funny until someone gets bronzed alive with the winning run on in the 9th. Well, that was another classic te e. If baseball were foreplay, these A's would be running away with the West.

A's manager Bob Geren suggested that he might have three different starting first basemen in the three-game series against the Mariners that opened on Monday at Safeco Field.

During Friday night's series opener with the host Athletics, the Tigers could look at the scoreboard for the last several innings and see that the White Sox had lost to Baltimore.

Expanding to a six-man rotation to save the workload on their rookie starters remains a priority for the A's. With Dallas Braden and Justin Duchscherer unavailable for the foreseeable future, the team is considering both trade and free-agent possibilities to bring in extra arms.

Struggling rookie first baseman Tommy Everidge got most of the night off Monday, and it's unclear if he'll be in the lineup for the A's on Tuesday for the second game of a three-game series against the visiting Yankees.

Baseball's darkest day until now was the Black Sox Scandal - the throwing of the 1919 World Series by the Chicago White Sox, which led to the hiring of the game's first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a federal judge who banned eight White Sox players for life.

Sorry, Ken Williams. Your days of being under the radar as the White Sox general manager are over.

Nomar Garciaparra leaves his locker and walks toward one of the backrooms inside the visiting clubhouse at Camden Yards.

"This hurts, this really hurts," stated Torii Hunter, of the Los Angelos Angels, as he reacted to the news of his friend David Ortiz's connection with banned substances.

Jason Giambi's second stint with the Oakland Athletics didn't pan out as either side had hoped.

The 2009 crop of 30- and 40-somethings who inked one-year deals reflects the risk vs.

Oakland A's designated hitter Nomar Garciaparra connects during the sixth inning of a game at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Aug.