Aubrey Huff homered twice and Matt Cain won his fourth consecutive start as the San Francisco Giants defeated the visiting Oakland Athletics 6-2 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Huff had four RBIs, hitting two-run homers in both the sixth and eighth innings. His sixth-inning homer was part of back-to-back homers as Juan Uribe followed with a solo shot to give the Giants a 4-1 lead.
Kevin Kouzmanoff had a run-scoring single in the top of the eighth to pull Oakland within 4-2 prior on Huff’s second homer.
Cain (6-4) allowed one run and eight hits in seven innings. He struck out four and walked one.
Oakland starter Vin Mazzaro (2-1) gave up four runs – three earned – and six hits in six innings.
Bengie Molina had a run-scoring single for San Francisco’s first run. Landon Powell had an RBI single in the fourth for Oakland.
Oakland | San Francisco | |
Vin Mazzaro | Player | Matt Cain |
Loss | W/L | Win |
6.0 | IP | 7.0 |
1 | Strikeouts | 4 |
6 | Hits | 8 |
4.50 | ERA | 1.29 |
Oakland | San Francisco | |
Jack Cust | Player | Aubrey Huff |
3 | Hits | 2 |
0 | RBI | 4 |
0 | HR | 2 |
3 | TB | 8 |
.750 | Avg | .500 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
Oakland | 10 | 0 | 12 | .278 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
San Francisco | 8 | 3 | 18 | .258 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 |