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2024 Oakland Athletics 05/28-05/30

Overall Record:25-33 (5th AL West/13.0 behind Texas Rangers)

Game Results

Game 1
Athletics-6
Rays-5

Game 2
Rays-2
Athletics-1

Game 3
Athletics-4
Rays-3

Athletics get series victory in last full series of May

The Oakland Athletics will go under .500 once again for the month of May but they did win their last full series of the month. Oakland won their series against the first place Rays, two games to one.

The A's scored the first run of the series in the very first inning when Shea Langeliers knocked in Esteury Ruiz who singled and worked his way around the bases. The Rays quickly matched that and then took the lead in the third inning when Rene Pinto and Josh Lowe combined for a pair of doubles to give Tampa the 2-1 lead. They added on in the fourth when Isaac Paredes hit his 13th homerun of the season. Oakland then went on to score in the 5th, 6th and 8th innings to take a 6-3 lead. Tampa would score two more in the bottom half of that inning before Lucas Erceg got his 14th save of the season in the ninth inning.

Game two was a low scoring matchup as the Rays took it, 2-1.

Esteury Ruiz was big in game three as he had three hits, a homerun and twp RBIS as Oakland won the game in extras, 4-3.

Oakland now looks toward June as they finish May with the first of three in Atlanta (30-26/2nd NL East/0.5 behind Phillies).