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The Oakland Athletics have continued to get outstanding starting pitching as they've taken the first two games of their series against the Cleveland Indians. Oakland got seven innings from Gio Gonzalez and Trevor Cahill to post easy victories. Gonzalez yielded five singles in a 5-0 victory Tuesday while Cahill gave up an unearned run and seven singles in a 6-1 win Wednesday.The Athletics are enjoying a run of 17 straight games in which starters have allowed three earned runs or fewer. It's their longest stretch in over 80 years. Mazzaro has beaten Cleveland once, allowing one run over 7 1/3 innings of a 3-1 victory July 4. His other start against the Indians came on Independence Day in 2009, when he gave up five runs over six innings of a 5-2 loss.The right-hander has gone 0-3 with a 3.82 ERA in his last five outings. He yielded three runs over 6 1/3 innings of a 5-4 victory over Tampa Bay on Friday.
Cleveland (50-76) has been the perfect opponent for Oakland's streaking starters. The Indians have totaled four runs during their current five-game losing streak. Justin Masterson (4-12, 5.33) will start for the Indians after allowing five runs over six innings in a 6-0 loss at Detroit on Friday.
The right-hander is 0-3 with a 6.75 ERA in four starts against AL West opponents this year, including an 11-0 defeat to Oakland on April 25 in which he gave up seven runs in four innings. Masterson is 0-2 with a 13.50 ERA in two career starts against the A's. A few lucky wins have given him a few dots in the win column but don't expect much from him today as the former Red Sox pitcher as Materson is having his worst year in his career.

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[msully2888]

oakland a's all the way!hopefully another win tonite