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Chavez pitches A's to 5-0 win over Giants
An easy takeaway from the Battle of the Bay opener might be that the A's and Giants are going in opposite directions.
The A's are rolling through just about everyone right now, except for the Tigers. Since Detroit swept Oakland last week, the A's have won five in a row and have surrendered just four runs in the process - zero on Monday night at the Coliseum in a 5-0 win over the Giants. At 56-33, the A's have the best record in the majors and they are a season-high 23-games over .500.
The Giants, who didn't get a runner past second, were shut out for the fourth time in eight games, and as the game entered its later stages, they got a little sloppy, too.
Neither team scored until the A's pushed across a run on a John Jaso groundout in the fifth. They'd stranded five runners in the first four innings against Ryan Vogelsong.
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