OAKLAND — The A’s spent the early part of the game flailing helplessly at Ubaldo Jimenez’s pitches.
But when Baltimore’s bullpen left the door cracked open in the later innings, the A’s pounced. Jed Lowrie tied the game in the eighth inning with an RBI ground-rule double and Chad Pinder’s sacrifice fly put Oakland ahead in a 5-4 victory over the Orioles that snapped a three-game losing streak.
It was a flashback to the way the A’s found a way to pull out home games early in the season, when they were one of the American League’s toughest home teams.