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BY STEVEN LUKE Making his 2018 season debut in the Majors, Frankie Montas held the Arizona Diamondbacks hitless through five innings and gave up only one run through six with seven strikeouts leading the Oakland Athletics to a 2-1 win Sunday afternoon. The win also gave the A’s the series …

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Facing a win or go home elimination game for the first time since the 2016 Finals, the Warriors rose to the challenge in the second half, and dealt an emphatic beat down on the Houston Rockets 115-86 to force a seventh and deciding game of the NBA …

  BY ANTHONY SOSA A four-run first inning and a dominant performance from the Oakland Athletics’ bullpen provided the club with a 4-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners Thursday at the Oakland Coliseum. The win thwarted Seattle’s attempt at a sweep. The A’s offense got to Mariners’ starting pitcher Felix …

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Unable to maintain the momentum of jumping out to a 12-0 lead in the first five minutes of the game, the Warriors offense went cold in the fourth quarter when it mattered most, falling to the Houston Rockets 95-92 Tuesday night at Oracle in Game 4 of …

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Responding emphatically to the 22 point thumping they absorbed in Game 2 four days ago, the Warriors bounced back Sunday night with an even bigger beat down, dismantling the Rockets 126-85 to take a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference finals. Steph Curry, who appeared at times …

BY ANTHONY SOSA An explosive seventh inning, which included back-to-back home runs from Brandon Belt and Nick Hundley, capped off an exhilarating, back-and-forth battle that resulted in a 9-5 Giants victory over their division-rival Colorado Rockies Sunday afternoon at AT&T Park. The win earned the Giants a split of the …

BY ANTHONY SOSA An early first-inning offensive outburst by the Cincinnati Reds proved to be too much for the San Francisco Giants to overcome and thus kept them from completing their second sweep of the season. The Reds salvaged the third game of the series by defeating the Giants 6-3, …

BY STEVEN LUKE Matched up head-to-head with one of the premier pitchers in the American League, Daniel Mengden did everything in his power to keep his team in the game, matching zeroes with Gerrit Cole until the Houston hurler gave up the first run of the game in the sixth. …

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Back on the Oracle floor with a chance to wrap up their second round playoff series against the Pelicans following their dominating Game 4 victory in New Orleans, the Warriors once again established their dominance on the way to a 113 -104 victory to win the series …

BY STEVEN LUKE The Oakland Athletics beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 in a tight contest Sunday afternoon at the Coliseum. The win gave the A’s a three game sweep in record breaking fashion, striking out the most batters in Oakland history with 40 total whiffs in the series. Strikeouts were …