Matt Olson hit his fifth career walk-off in the 10th inning to cap off a late comeback 5-4 victory over the San Diego Padres. The A’s erased a two-run deficit in the ninth inning to get the win.
In the ninth, Ramón Laureano got the A’s third hit with a double to lead off the ninth inning, it came after a 10 pitch at-bat against closer Mark Melancon. Matt Chapman came to the plate with two outs representing the game-winning run with runners on the corners in the ninth, his infield hit scored the A’s second run. Yan Gomes, pinch hitting for Elvis Andrus, tied the game up with an RBI single to score pinch-runner Tony Kemp.
The Padres scored a run on an error by Chapman, who moved to shortstop with Kemp in the game at second and Josh Harrison at third base.
Starling Marte’s bloop single put runners on the corners with no outs in the bottom of the 10th against funky left-handed reliever Tim Hill and Olson slammed a double off the wall to score Canha and speedy Marte from first.
The A’s had struggled against Padres starter Joe Musgrove stymied them with a tight curveball he threw 37 times of his 99 pitches, holding Oakland to two hits and one earned run.
That earned run was courtesy of Jed Lowrie, who hit his 12th home run in the second inning. Musgrove hit two batters and walked another — the only other base runners he dealt with — while striking out five. Musgrove went six innings and ceded the mound to Pierce Johnson, another arm with a good curveball.
Lowrie’s home run gave Frankie Montas the slimmest of leads to work with. Adam Frazier tied the game up with an RBI single in the third. A nice play by Ramón Laureano to relay to Josh Harrison to get Jurickson Profar at home on Trent Grisham’s double was stellar, but not enough to stop a three-run inning for the Padres.
Montas put together six innings with eight strikeouts, including three against Manny Machado, without issuing a walk. His splitter was effective with nice command of his four-seam fastball.
