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DENVER (AP) -- Jeff Cirillo's single with two outs in the 10th
inning scored Tom Goodwin with the winning run as the Colorado
Rockies beat the Oakland Athletics 10-9 Monday night to snap an
11-game losing streak and split a day-night doubleheader.
Goodwin drew a two-out walk off Jason Isringhausen, who then
walked Brian Hunter. Scott Service replaced Isringhausen and
Cirillo hit a liner to left-center to bring home Goodwin.
|  | | Olmedo Saenz had three hits and four RBI in Oakland's 11-10 win over Colorado in the opener. |
Mike DeJean (4-1) pitched a scoreless 10th for Colorado, which
had not won since beating San Diego on July 3.
The Rockies tied it in the ninth when Cirillo, Todd Helton and Todd Walker hit consecutive singles off Isringhausen.
Isringhausen (4-3), who blew his fourth save after earning his
20th in the opener, escaped further damage by striking out
pinch-hitter Jeffrey Hammonds and getting Ben Petrick to ground
out.
Jason Giambi's two-out two-run single in the ninth gave Oakland
a short-lived 9-8 lead.
The Athletics trailed 8-7 when Terrence Long reached on an
infield single and Randy Velarde singled off Gabe White. Both
runners moved up on a passed ball by Petrick and Giambi sent a 1-1
pitch past second baseman Todd Walker, scoring Long and Velarde.
Colorado rallied from a 7-6 deficit on Neifi Perez's two-out, two-run double in the eighth inning after Oakland went ahead in the
top half on Miguel Tejada's two-out, three-run home run.
The Rockies, who trailed 4-0, were held hitless for 5 1/3
innings by Ariel Prieto before Mike Lansing tripled off the
center-field wall. Two batters later, Prieto lost his shutout on
Hunter's RBI single. Helton singled to left to score Hunter to cut
the lead to 4-2.
Colorado went in front 6-4 when Goodwin broke out of a 3-for-28
slump with a seventh-inning grand slam -- his second of the season.
The Athletics took a 2-0 lead in the first on Jason Giambi's RBI
double and Matt Stairs' run-scoring single.
Long homered off the upper deck facade in right field leading
off the third and Ben Grieve gave Oakland a 4-0 lead with his 17th
to start the sixth.
In Game 1, Olmedo Saenz had three hits, including a double and
home run, and four RBI, and Jeremy Giambi added a two-run homer as
the A's beat Colorado 11-10.
Adam Piatt went 2-for-4 with two RBI for the A's, who won for
only the second time in six games at Coors Field.
"I'm telling you Saenz was born to hit," Howe said. "I tell
you, he's going to hit."
The third baseman, a .310 hitter against the AL, has hit .411 in
12 games against the NL.
"I didn't know that," said Saenz, who came into Monday hitting
12-for-30 with two home runs and five RBI. "I just want to do
what I can to stay in the big leagues."
Mike Magnante (1-1) earned the win with 1 1/3 innings of one-run
ball, and Isringhausen, who surrendered a two-run homer to Helton -- who also hit a solo shot off Magnante in the seventh -- got the
final three outs.
Larry Walker drove in three runs with a single and home run for
Colorado and reached the 1,500-hit plateau. Hunter hit his first
home run and had two RBI, and Cirillo drove in two runs for the
Rockies.
The Athletics staked Marcus Jones, making his major league
debut, to a 4-0 lead in the first inning on two-run homers by Saenz
and Giambi. Hunter's first home run since July 27, 1999, came in
bottom half.
Oakland chased Rigo Beltran, called up from Triple-A Colorado
Springs, in the second inning. Velarde singled to left and scored
on Jason Giambi's double inside the bag at first. After Saenz
walked, Julian Tavarez replaced Beltran and allowed a bloop RBI
single to Piatt.
Walker's sixth home run of the year, a two-run shot into the
third deck in right field off Doug Jones, keyed a three-run fourth.
Petrick singled, moved to second when Jones threw away an attempted
bunt by Tavarez, and scored when Hunter's pop fly dropped in front
of center fielder Ryan Christenson for a double.
Walker hit Jones' first pitch to him into the seats in right to
give the Rockies a 7-6 lead.
Successive one-out doubles by Jason Giambi, Saenz and Piatt off
White (6-1), and an RBI double by Ramon Hernandez off DeJean in the
seventh put the Athletics back in front, 9-7.
Game notes
The A's optioned RHP Chad Harville to Sacramento prior to
Monday's game to make room for Marcus Jones. ... Walker reached the
third deck for the fifth time with his fourth-inning homer. It was
the 12th time a player homered into the third deck. ... Oakland had
six doubles in the game, one short of its season high. ... Hammonds
did not start either game because of the flu. ... .Jason Giambi got
his 500th RBI. ... The start of the second game was delayed 30
minutes because of rain.
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