Athletics Edge Indians in 10 innings, 2

With a large contingent of family and friends on hand, Brooks put on an impressive show in his second career start, posting his first major-league victory and helping the A’s snap their three-game losing streak.

Also, as a cruel twist of fate to the struggling lineup, injuries and illnesses began to stack up for the ballclub.

2B Jason Kipnis, who has a sore right shoulder that bothers him when he throws, served as Cleveland’s designated hitter for the second straight game Saturday in a 5-1 loss to Oakland. Additionally, Ryan Raburn last played on July 26 as he has been battling an as yet disclosed illness. Jose Ramirez, now at Columbus, might be an option. “(Melvin) asked me how I was and I was like, ‘Pretty gassed.’ He said, ‘I can tell; let’s go to the bullpen.’ They came in and shut them down”. Canha walked to open the inning and reached third on Eric Sogard’s single. Kipnis was 1-for-12 in the three games against the Athletics before sitting Sunday. Fuld raced around third base and slid into home, easily beating the relay throw from shortstop Francisco Lindor. Yan Gomes singled with two outs and Chisenhall doubled. Acquired from Kansas City in exchange for Ben Zobrist on Tuesday, Brooks will be making his second career start and his first since May 31, 2014.

Pitching in front of a crowd of 19,046 that included his parents and grandparents, Brooks (1-0) was stellar while allowing one run and five hits over 7-plus innings. He said it was the best he’s felt and indicated he intended to pitch before the season ended. Chisenhall appeared in 50 games at third base. With Fuld running, there was no play at the plate, and Oakland walked off a 2-1 victor.

After not even putting a scare into starter Graveman in the first six innings, the Indians finally started a rally with two outs in the seventh inning.

Before Sunday’s game in Oakland, Kipnis underwent an MRI, which revealed enough to convince Cleveland manager Terry Francona to sit the All-Star second baseman and replace his bat at the top of the order with right fielder Lonnie Chisenhall.

Trevor Bauer had a similar outing, only his blip occurred in the fifth inning.

In what would be the worst pitching performance by any starter during the series, Cody Anderson actually pitched moderately well. “We’re just not giving him any run support”.

The solo scoring event of the evening for the Indians was unfortunately immediately followed by the Athletics’ best offensive display of the weekend. Bauer would pitch into the seventh inning (one run, four hits), and could have gone further if not for that 30-pitch fifth inning. Anderson almost escaped unscathed, but Fuld lined an RBI single to right, driving in Semien. It’s hard to complain about a 1-for-3 effort with an additional two walks, and he scored the only run of the game courtesy of a Jerry Sands sacrifice fly. Giovanny Urshela had an opportunity to give the Indians a big inning, but was struck out.

For a while, it appeared that Bauer would allow that early run to hold up.

Salazar (9-6) allowed an unearned run in eight innings.