Davis hits 30th home run but A’s lose 8-4 to Mariners

Kyle put up an impressive 4 RBI on Tuesday night with the base hits, one of which, his 21st home run of the season, a 3-run BLAST in the eighth inning to keep the Mariners alive in this one.

Seattle shrugged off a disappointing defeat Friday that snapped its six-game win streak by starting a new one, winning the final two games of the three-game set at the Oakland Coliseum.

“It kind of stiffened up yesterday and I was a little anxious yesterday”, Iwakuma said through an interpreter. Sunday marked his third start out of 13 major league appearances. The A’s would rack up a total of five hits in their first two innings, six in their first three, but would only score this one run to show for all of it.

Hisashi Iwakuma got the win, allowing three runs in 5 1/3 innings. Neal has struck out eight, walked one and allowed 19 hits in 22 1/3 innings during that stretch.

Rookie Edwin Diaz made it 6 for 6 in save opportunities be working a 1-2-3 ninth inning. Khris Davis, who had homered off Wieland earlier in the game, launched a shot to left-center that bounced off the wall. “If you had told me he was going to shatter his career-high in homers moving from Milwaukee to Oakland, I would have laughed in your face”. Two pitches later Davis unloaded his first home run in 10 days, a fly ball down the right field line that barely stayed fair for a 3-0 lead. After Storen worked the seventh, Arquimedes Caminero tossed an unblemished eighth with two strikeouts, although the A’s made some noise by getting two runners aboard before Caminero punched out PH Yonder Alonso to end the frame. Seattle (61-54) got another solid outing from its bullpen.

Cruz hit his 29th home run leading off the fourth inning. Seattle capitalized with O’Malley singling to center and driving in the hustling Lee to make it 4-1.

Seager knocked in SS Shawn O’Malley with a double in the third inning and cleared the bases with another in the sixth as Seattle extended a 4-1 lead to 7-1. The homer tied the game up at 4 with Detroit, and that tie wouldn’t change until the 15th inning, where it all happened. Marcus Semien matched a career best with four hits and is 8-for-17 with four runs scored over his last four games.

NOTES: Mariners OF Seth Smith, who came out of Saturday’s game after fouling a ball off his right foot in the seventh inning, was a late scratch on Sunday with a right foot contusion. It meant Dae-Ho Lee was safe at second.

“Our bullpen was outstanding”, manager Scott Servais said.

The A’s now hit the road for a six-game trip through Texas and the South Side of Chicago, with Neal being the only starter scheduled to make two starts. Called up from Class AAA Tacoma, Wieland was making his first big-league start since September 9, 2015.

“This year is a lengthy one for him so I don’t think it’s a bad thing to cut it short”, A’s manager Bob Melvin said, explaining his decision to pull Graveman. “I mean, it’s nice to know that you’re healthy again and you don’t have to worry about it in the offseason, but it’s not like we’re going to push him to try to get him out there just to get him out there”.