A's make it three in row over Giants
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Jed Lowrie and Yonder Alonso hit two-run homers, and rookie left-hander Sean Manaea pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings, leading the Oakland A's to a 7-1 victory against the San Francisco Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Wednesday night.
The A's beat the Giants for the third straight time and will try to sweep the four-game season series on Thursday night at the Coliseum.
Manaea (3-4) had been on the disabled list since June 14 with a strained left forearm before being activated Wednesday to make his 10th career start. He gave up six hits, struck out four and walked one. Manaea exited after allowing a two-out double to Buster Posey in the sixth with the A's leading 7-0.
Giants right-hander Jake Peavy (4-7) gave up seven runs -- just four of them earned -- on six hits over 3 1/3 innings. He walked two, struck out none and allowed two home runs.
Peavy won three of his previous four starts and allowed a combined eight earned runs in his previous six starts before facing Oakland.
The A's won for the sixth time in seven games, scoring 53 runs during that span.
Coco Crisp went 2-for-4 with a triple, an RBI and a run for the A's.
Posey went 3-for-4, while Brandon Crawford had one hit in three at-bats and drove in a run in the eighth with a sacrifice fly for the Giants, who lost for the fourth time in five games.
The A's took a 3-0 lead in the third inning, scoring three unearned runs off Peavy.
With one out, Marcus Semien hit a pop up to shallow right field that dropped when second baseman Ramiro Pena collided with right fielder Mac Williamson. Pena was charged with an error, and Semien wound up on third base.
Pena, starting in place of Joe Panik (concussion), appeared to hurt his left ankle. However, he stayed in the game until being replaced for a pinch hitter in the fifth.
Billy Burns brought Semien home with a sacrifice bunt down the first base line, and Crisp followed with a triple to the left-center gap.
Lowrie made it 3-0 with a home run down the right field line that went in and out of a leaping Williamson's glove and landed over the fence. The blast was Lowrie's second of the season and came on a 3-2 pitch.
The A's added four runs in the fourth, extending their lead to 7-0. After Butler walked with one out, Alonso sent Peavy's first pitch into the right field seats for his second home run of the season.
Semien tripled to deep left on a ball that left fielder Angel Pagan appeared to misjudge, and Burns drove him in with a double to left that got past Pagan. Crisp followed with an RBI single.
NOTES: Giants 2B Joe Panik was placed on the seven-day concussion disabled list, retroactive to Tuesday. Ramiro Pena started at second base Wednesday against the A's. ... The Giants purchased the contract of INF Ruben Tejada from Triple-A Sacramento, and the former Mets shortstop started at third base. ... A's LF Khris Davis was a late scratch because of a left shoulder contusion. Davis was hurt Tuesday in the first inning when he slammed into the outfield wall in San Francisco trying to catch 1B Brandon Belt's double. ... Oakland INF/OF Arismendy Alcantara was optioned to Triple-A Nashville, clearing a spot on the 25-man roster for LHP Sean Manaea (left pronator strain), who was reinstated from the DL and started against the Giants. ... LHP Eric Surkamp was claimed off waivers from Oakland by the Texas Rangers. ... Giants RHP Sergio Romo (right flexor strain) will make rehab appearances Thursday and Friday with Triple-A Sacramento.