The Oakland Athletics open their final series of the regular season Friday night against the Texas Rangers, hoping to better position themselves for at least one more home game during the American ...

The Rangers lowered the broom to sweep the A's 9-6. Jacob deGrom threw 5 shutout innings for the win, with Home Runs from Josh Jung & Joc Pederson.

The win also moved the Rangers within 2 1/2 games of the A’s in the American League West after taking 2 ... with two outs in the seventh after another missed fielding chance for Oakland. First baseman ...

Allen, a 5-foot-8 shortstop, provided the A’s with a pair of highlights on a ... faces Texas on Monday in the opener of a three-game series in Oakland. Waldichuk is winless in two career starts ...

Josh Jung homered and scored three times in his return to the majors, Cody Freeman and Michael Helman had big-league firsts on consecutive pitches and the Texas Rangers beat the Athletics 7-2.