Leon serves up grand slam in 10th, A’s lose to Orioles 7

The Baltimore Orioles prospect will also try to kick off his playoff-contending club’s West Coast trip with a strong performance Monday night against the Oakland Athletics. Of course, they could also do just about as badly as they did last night, here today facing Kendall Graveman, one of the players that Oakland received back in what will probably turn out to be the ill-advised (for Oakland) Josh Donaldson trade.

“When he threw the ball in the middle of the plate they hit it, ” manager Bob Melvin said.

Orioles skipper Buck Showalter earned his 1,313th career managerial victory, tying him with Hall of Famer Ned Hanlon for 31st all-time. Baltimore 2B Jonathan Schoop had three hits in the opener and is 6-for-10 over the past three games.3. The 24-year-old rookie has gone 5-5 with a 2.94 ERA in 13 starts since being recalled from Triple-A Nashville on May 23, but he has issued a total of 10 walks in his last four outings.

Wilson (1-1, 2.12 ERA) has made five major league appearances – none since June 19 – and in his only start he yielded two runs in six innings of a 3-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox on May 28. “When Billy’s on base, certainly there’s a lot of attention on him, and Coco’s a pretty good situational guy”. Oakland has averaged 2.7 runs per game over the last 10 games, lower than its season average of 4.1. Starting the season with a 2.55 ERA in April and 1.93 in May, the righty posted a 5.33 mark in July before exiting the game in the fourth inning of his first August start after allowing six runs.

Athletics: LHP Sean Doolittle will throw a simulated game Tuesday to test his strained shoulder…. Billy Butler opened with a double, then one out later cruised home on Brett Lawrie’s triple.

Francisco Rodriguez pitched the eighth and Fernando Abad labored the ninth to finish Oakland’s AL-leading 14th shutout.

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Davis sent an 0-1 pitch over the wall in right-center with two outs in the opening half-inning and Baltimore built off that.

Vogt, Oakland’s All-Star catcher, struck out 3 times and is in a 2-for-34 funk.

His full-count, one-out grand slam in the 10th inning at O.co Coliseum broke a tie and ultimately gave the Orioles a 7-3 victory over the Oakland A’s before an announced crowd of 20,176. He faced them twice last year as a reliever for Toronto.

Over his past 15 games, the Baltimore first baseman is batting.

The A’s had a long and not very pleasant history with Orioles’ lefty Wei-Yin Chen. The other Baltimore runs were contributed by Nolan Reimold (1-for-4), Jimmy Paredes (1-for-5), and J.J. Hardy (2-for-5) each hitting an RBI single.