Official Site of the A's · May 27, 2017
A's wait out Tanaka, strike late in Bronx
Jed Lowrie finds a hole and hits an RBI single to right field, opening the scoring for the Athletics in the top of the 8th inningWith both his slider and splitter working, Tanaka (5-4) was able to bounce back from what the right-hander called the roughest two-start stretch of his career. Allowing one run in 7 1/3 innings, Tanaka left to a standing ovation from the crowd of 39,044. He generated a career-high 25 swings and misses over his 111 pitches, limiting Oakland to just five hits without a walk.
As impressive as Tanaka was, Manaea matched him, limiting New York to four hits -- three singles and a double -- and a walk, striking out eight over seven scoreless.
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