Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Oakland 5, Arizona 4
When: 10:05 PM ET, Friday, July 1, 2011
Where: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature: 75°
Umpires: Home - Mark Carlson, 1B - Jeff Kellogg, 2B - D.J. Reyburn, 3B - Eric Cooper
Attendance: 12216

Rich Harden pitched six solid innings in his first start of the season to lead the Oakland Athletics to a 5-4 victory over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday.

Harden (1-0), who was on the disabled list with a strained right shoulder, struck out six, and allowed two runs and four hits as Oakland won for only the third time in nine games.

Kelly Johnson hit a two-run homer in the eighth off Brian Fuentes to pull the Diamondbacks within 5-4, but Joey Devine got the last two outs of the eighth and Andrew Bailey worked a perfect ninth for his seventh save.

Cliff Pennington and Coco Crisp had back-to-back run-scoring singles in the fifth to give Oakland a 3-1 lead. Hideki Matsui followed with a two-run double to right to cap the four-run inning.

Wily Mo Pena hit a homer in the second and Stephen Drew had a run-scoring single in the sixth for the Diamondbacks, who have lost five of their last six games.

Arizona starter Josh Collmenter (4-5) gave up five runs and seven hits in 4 2/3 innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Arizona   Oakland
Joshua Collmenter Player Rich Harden
Loss W/L Win
4.2 IP 6.0
5 Strikeouts 6
7 Hits 4
9.64 ERA 3.00
Hitting
Arizona   Oakland
Kelly Johnson Player David DeJesus
2 Hits 2
2 RBI 0
1 HR 0
6 TB 3
.500 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Arizona 6 2 13 .188 5 10 4 1 0 0
Oakland 11 0 14 .333 14 6 5 4 1 0
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