Oakland Athletics vs Detroit Tigers Box Score on Sep 18, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Sep 19, 2017

DETROIT -- Matt Olson homered for the fourth consecutive game, and Jed Lowrie drove in three runs, leading the Oakland Athletics to an 8-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Monday at Comerica Park.

Olson's two-run shot in the third inning was his 11th homer in September and 14th over the past 20 games.

Marcus Semien had two hits and scored three runs, Chad Pinder supplied a pair of run-scoring doubles, and Matt Joyce added three hits and scored a run for Oakland (67-83).

The Athletics' scheduled starter, Jharel Cotton, sustained a right groin strain while warming up and was a late scratch. Emergency starter Raul Alcantara held the Tigers scoreless for 3 2/3 innings. Liam Hendriks (4-2), who pitched 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief, was credited with the win.

Oakland has won nine of its past 12 games.

Ian Kinsler had two hits, including a solo homer, and drove in two runs for Detroit (62-88). Nicholas Castellanos was 3-for-4, extending his career-high hitting streak to 15 games.

Detroit starter Buck Farmer (4-4) gave up five runs (four earned) and six hits in 2 2/3 innings.

Lowrie's run-scoring double in the first brought home Semien, who led off with a single.

The A's scored four runs in the third. Lowrie once again knocked in Semien, this time with a sacrifice fly. Olson crushed his 22nd homer to right-center to make it 4-0, and Pinder's RBI double completed the outburst.

Oakland tacked on two more runs in the fourth for a 7-0 lead. Lowrie drew a bases-loaded walk, and the other run scored on Khris Davis' double-play grounder.

Detroit scored two runs in the fifth on run-scoring doubles by JaCoby Jones and Kinsler.

NOTES: Detroit RHP Jeff Ferrell was struck in the head by Ryon Healy's line drive in the eighth. He was immediately removed from the game. ... Tigers LHP Matt Boyd had no regrets about the 2-0 changeup he threw to the Chicago White Sox's Tim Anderson on Sunday. Boyd was one out away from a no-hitter when Anderson stroked an opposite-field double. "The pitch I wanted, the pitch I executed," he said on Monday. "I slept easy on that note." ... The A's lead the majors in errors (118) and unearned runs (82). ... The first-inning double by A's 2B Jed Lowrie left him just one shy of Jason Giambi's single-season, franchise record of 47 doubles. Giambi set the mark in 2001.