#505---SEA @ OAK, 4/5/2010

 

Seattle got single tallies off Ben Sheets in each of the first three frames, with lots of actions on the basepaths (three steals coupled with two Kurt Suzuki throwing errors, two caught stealings) while Felix Hernandez allowed just one hit (a chopper by Rajai Davis leading off the game for Oakland) through five. Oakland pushed across a run in the sixth and after King Felix got two groundouts to start the seventh, he walked two and was pulled for Sean White. Cliff Pennington and Davis each singled in a run to tie the game. In the ninth, Casey Kotchman got a two-out, two-run single off Andrew Bailey to give the Mariners the lead, and David Aardsma set the A’s down 1-2-3 to save a 5-3 Opening Day victory.