After missing his last start with upper-back tightness, Sean Manaea got a cortisone shot for the problem and manager Bob Melvin said Manaea was feeling as good as he had all year.
It showed. In his final start of the season, Manaea worked into the seventh inning and allowed only an unearned run in Oakland’s 4-1 victory, Rookie third baseman Matt Chapman added his 14th homer, a solo shot in the fifth off Miguel Gonzalez as the A’s earned their seventh consecutive win over the Rangers.
The A’s have won five road games in a row, their longest road winning streak of the year, and their 16 wins in September are their most in a month since going 17-9 in June, 2014.