A’s Topple Giants 7-4 behind three home runs

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty ImagesThe Oakland Athletics offense showed up to play, putting up seven runs to lead them to their third straight win.

Early fireworks

Oakland quickly took control of this game, getting long balls from two of their biggest bats in the first inning. Ryan Noda came up and cranked an opposite field home run to lead off the bottom of the inning, and that early lead was extended when Zack Gelof repeated that feat by smacking a ball over the right field wall to make it 2-0. The next seven A’s went down in order through the top of the third, but Oakland clung on to that lead.

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