A's Score Twice the Runs on Half the Hits to Down Padres

The A's had all the runs they needed by the second inning, when they held a 7-0 lead. Dave Sturgeon, who threw three shutout innings to start the A's tag-team pitching, also had the big bat, with three hits, including a double. Dave Becker and Greg Whittaker each had two-run doubles in the A's six-run second inning. Eric Cain had a pair of hits to go with his two RBIs for the day. The A's also played nearly flawless defense, hampered only by the odd diagonal bar on the backstop that deflected a sure pickoff throw to first base from the A's catcher.

A tip of the A's cap to a feisty Padres team that had to play with four pool players...and outhit the A's 19-10...led by four hit games from Ray Zoila and Frank Gonzalez, who's knuckleball stifled the A's all day. With better Padres support, this would have been a much closer game.

BOX SCORE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Foothill Padres 000010301 5 19 5
Sherman Oaks A's 160010030 11 10 1

Date: August 22, 2010     Time: 10:00am      Venue: Venice HS   

Foothill Padres
Hitters AB R H RBI BB K
Frank Gonzalez 5 2 4 2 0 0
Allen Wilson 4 1 2 1 1 0
John Gonzalez 5 0 2 0 0 1
Ray Zoila 5 0 4 1 0 0
David Goodman 5 0 2 1 0 0
Jesus Aguilar 5 0 0 0 0 2
Pool Players 16 2 5 0 0 4
Totals 45 5 19 5 1 7
2B: Gonzalez (2), Goodman
SB: Gonzalez, Players
Sherman Oaks A's
Hitters AB R H RBI BB K
Jon Ross 1 1 0 0 0 1
Dave Becker 4 2 1 2 0 1
David Sturgeon 4 1 3 1 0 0
Eric Cain 4 0 2 2 0 0
Joe Pita 3 0 0 0 1 1
Matt Trites 4 1 0 0 0 0
Dave Dawson 3 1 1 1 0 0
Matt Bellner 3 2 1 1 1 0
Billy Anderson 3 2 1 1 1 0
Steve Fleishman 4 0 0 1 0 0
Greg Whittaker 4 1 1 2 0 1
Pat Estrada 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 11 10 11 3 4
2B: Becker, Sturgeon, Whittaker
3B: Dawson, Anderson
SB: Becker (2), Sturgeon, Cain, Trites, Bellner (2)
HBP: Ross
SF: Dawson

Foothill Padres
Pitchers IP H R ER BB K PT
Frank Gonzalez (L) 8.0 10 11 7 3 4 0
HB: Gonzalez
Sherman Oaks A's
Pitchers IP H R ER BB K PT
David Sturgeon 3.0 5 0 0 0 2 0
Dave Becker (W) 2.0 2 1 1 1 2 0
Pat Estrada 2.0 7 3 3 0 2 0
Joe Pita 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 0
Matt Bellner 1.0 3 1 1 0 0 0

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