OAKLAND, Calif. _ The streaking A's made it six straight wins and 12 of 14 Saturday with a 7-2 win over the Cleveland Indians at the Coliseum.
Edwin Jackson, the well-traveled 34-year-old right-hander making his second start, gave up a pair of solo home runs and nothing else through 62/3 innings to record his first win. He got relief help from Ryan Buchter, Emilio Pagan, Santiago Casilla, and finally Lou Trivino, who got the last two outs before a crowd of 17,748.
The A's trailed 2-0 but scored three times in the sixth on a two-run home run from Josh Phegley (his second) and a run-scoring double from Mark Canha to take the lead. Then they broke it open with four runs in the bottom of the eighth on a solo home run by Dustin Fowler (his fifth), a sacrifice fly by Khris Davis and a two-run home run by Matt Olson (his 18th).
Jackson, who walked no one in six innings in his A's debut in Detroit, had no walks and got two more outs against the Indians. He mostly induced a lot of harmless balls into the air and two that weren't so harmless _ solo home runs Francisco Lindor (his 20th) and Jose Ramirez (his 24th) in the fourth inning to give Cleveland a 2-0 lead.
After getting the first two outs in the seventh inning, A's manager Bob Melvin went to the left-handed Buchter to face the left-handed hitting Yonder Alonso. Buchter struck out Alonso to end the inning.
Cleveland starter Adam Plutko (4-2), who threw a Triple-A no-hitter on June 2, pitched four perfect innings before Davis doubled to lead off the fifth. He retired the next three hitters in order but ran into trouble quickly in the sixth.
Franklin Barreto doubled off the fence in left to begin the inning, and then Phegley _ after being spared a foul out when the ball hit a television camera as catcher Yan Gomes was poised to catch it _ hit a two-run home run to left field to tie the game.
Fowler then lined a single to left, and Canha narrowly missed a home run with a deep drive to left. It bounced off the fence for a double, scoring Fowler to put the A's up 3-2. Canha was then trapped between second and third in a rundown and tagged out.
With the A's leading 7-2 in the ninth, Casilla struck out Lindor but then walked both Ramirez and Edwin Encarnacion to load the bases. Melvin then called on Trivino to finish up. Trivino got Alonso to hit into a 3-6-1 double play to end the game and get his third save.
The A's improved to 46-38, while Cleveland, leaders of the American League Central division, fell to 44-37.
