August 19th 2014 -- A's 6, Mets 2

Tuesday night in Oakland, Coco Crisp’s three run triple highlighted a 4 run 4^th inning, the A’s beat the Mets 6-2. The Mets got off to a 1-0 lead in the 3^rd when Travis d’Arnaud hit a line drive homer over the right-centerfield fence for this 11^th homer off A’s starter Scott Kazmir.  In the bottom of the 4^th the A’s tied it off Dillon Gee with a bases loaded sac-fly by Albert Callaspo. Then after a walk to Eric Sogard,  Coco Crisp cleared the bases with a line drive triple down the right field line to make it 4-1. The Mets made it 4-2 in the top of the 7^th when Anthony Recker doubled home Wilmer Flores with the Mets final run.  Josh Reddick clubbed a 2 run blast in the (9) bottom of the 8^th to cap the scoring. The good news is the Mets finally broke their string of games with only 4 hits at 5. They collected 7 hits on the night. The bad news is the Mets drop to 59-68 on the year.  Gee went 5 2/3 allowing just 8 hits 4 runs (all earned) walking 2 and striking out 4. He falls to 4-6.  Former Met Kazmir earned his career high 14^th win on the season.  Eric Campbell getting the start in left led the Mets going 2 for 4, Gonzalez Germen in his first outing since his recall allowed 2 runs in the 8^th on the Reddick homer. The Mets are now 29-36 on the road. Wednesday afternoon it’s the final game of this two game set.  Zack Wheeler (8-8  3.49) goes for the Mets Jeff Samardzija (5-9  2.96) goes for Oakland.