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Yoenis Cespedes has been playing in the big leagues for less than a season and a half, but his eight years' worth of experience playing in Cuba helped engineer the A's 4-3 win Sunday over Kansas City, completing a three-game sweep of the Royals.

Short answer: No. But remember in 2001 when the A's tanked out of the gate with Johnny Damon in LF and Terrence Long in CF, and then finally, in May, switched them -- and the team just took off and never looked back? In 2013, Oakland went with Jed Lowrie at SS for 6 weeks as Lowrie accumulated 5 errors and defensive zone ratings ranking somewhere ... (more)

A sacrifice fly from the Athletics' Jed Lowrie and a subsequent tiebreaking RBI triple by Brandon Moss gave the Athletics two runs against longtime nemesis Ervin Santana in the sixth inning, and that was enough for Oakland to post a second consecutive 2-1 win over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday night.

Back on April 17th , the Oakland Athletics were sitting pretty atop the American League West, sporting a gaudy 12-4 record.

Throughout last season and even into 2013, the Texas Rangers couldn't get past the Oakland Athletics' bullpen.

Bartolo Colon pitches to the Rangers in the first inning. He'd give up three runs in six innings.

Shortstop Elvis Andrus had two mental mistakes in the series-opening loss. With the hit-and-run play on in the first, Andrus failed to swing, and Ian Kinsler was trapped between first and second.

Athletics 5, Rangers 1: Yoenis Cespedes and Brandon Moss hit back-to-back homers as host Oakland snapped Texasa four-game winning streak.

The Mariners put constant pressure on the A's over the final three innings tonight with eight base-runners. But just one of those scored as the M's stranded two in the seventh, three in the eighth, and two more in the ninth.

Jerry Blevins entered Monday's series opener against the Indians as one of only six American League pitchers to have appeared in 16 games this season.

Josh Donaldson hit his first home run in three weeks to break a tie in the eighth inning and lift the A's to a 5-4 win over the Yankees and a win in the weekend series.

Having reliable pitchers to insert into the eighth and ninth innings of a close game is essential for Major League Baseball teams that have World Series hopes.

Like the inadequate concoction of the cocktail of your choice, the construction of the bullpen is lacking a key ingredient that leaves a bitter taste in your mouth.

Previously lacking any of that late-game magic, let alone any magic that fueled their 2012 success, the A's finally found some just in time to avoid a four-game sweep at the hands of the Orioles on Sunday afternoon.

Wei-Yin Chen remained close to unhittable against Oakland, as the Baltimore left-hander helped to craft the Orioles' 3-0 win over the A's by allowing two hits in eight innings Friday.