NEW YORK _ Kendall Graveman returned from the minors with a refined delivery and arsenal of pitches. It wasn't pretty, but the A's got what they wanted out of him.
Graveman did not use the changeup, the pitch he was working on adding to his repertoire, all that often Friday night, but his heavy dosage of fastballs and sinkers kept the Yankees to three hits over six innings of work in Friday's 10-5 victory to snap a three-game losing streak.
The three hits were costly as two were home runs. Graveman surrendered a solo shot to Gleyber Torres in the third inning and a first-pitch sinker to Aaron Judge that was obliterated over the wall in right field for a three-run shot in the fifth. But the A's also flexed their muscle on offense.
Facing an old friend in Sonny Gray for the first time since the club traded him to New York at the trade deadline last year, the A's (19-19) jumped on the right-hander early on.
Khris Davis led off the second inning with a home run to straightaway center field, and two batters later, Matt Chapman smashed a two-run homer over the wall in center field to give the A's a 3-0 lead.
Gray was charged with five runs on nine hits over five innings of work, with each member of the A's starting lineup collecting at least one hit off the former A's ace.
After scoring more than three runs just twice in their previous 11 games, the A's bats exploded for four home runs on the night, with Jed Lowrie and Matt Joyce adding on with solo homers in the sixth and eighth.
Chapman and Olson both seemed to get it going as they went a combined 3 for 8 on the night with two walks after entering Friday night coming off a home stand that saw the duo go just 5 for 42 over six games.
Dustin Fowler, who the A's received in the deal that sent Gray to New York, received a warm round of applause as he walked to the plate in the second. It was his first at-bat at Yankee Stadium after his season ended abruptly with the Yankees last year following a collision with an electrical box in Chicago last year before he even got a chance to get his first major league at-bat.
Fowler picked up his first big league hit in the fourth, a 1-1 changeup from Gray that was pulled to right for a single, and finished the night 2 for 5 with a pair of singles.
With the game still tight in the ninth, Marcus Semien broke it open with the bases loaded as he smashed a three-run double down the left field line to give the A's a commanding 10-5 lead.
