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Slumping Athletics open home stand with loss to Tigers

OAKLAND — A return home failed to alleviate what ails the Athletics Friday night in a 7-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers at the Coliseum.

Jim Adduci hit a bases loaded triple in the top of the sixth inning before a crowd of 17,519 to break it open against Athletics starter Andrew Triggs, who up until that inning had given up only a pair of unearned runs.

The Athletics, coming off a 2-7 home stand and 2-9 in their last 11 games, managed a single unearned run in the sixth inning on an RBI single by Yonder Alonso.