Pirates blasted by A's
PITTSBURGH — Josh Phegley drove in a career-high eight runs to set a franchise record for most RBIs in a game by a catcher and the Oakland Athletics snapped a six-game losing streak with 14-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night.
Phegley sandwiched a run-scoring single in the third around bases-clearing doubles in the second and fourth, and added a long solo homer in the ninth. He finished 4 for 5 for the A’s, who jumped on Joe Musgrove (1-3) early to win for just the fifth time in 18 tries away from O.Co Coliseum.
Matt Chapman added his ninth home run for Oakland and Kendry Morales went 3 for 4 as the A’s set season highs in both runs and hits (16), and nearly matched their entire 15-run output during the six-game slide that dropped them to the bottom of the American League West.
Brett Anderson (4-2) allowed one run on four hits with two walks and four strikeouts to pick up his first win since April 9. Anderson even added a pair of singles at the plate for the first multi-hit game of his career and just the third by an Oakland pitcher since the designated hitter was introduced in 1973.
Pittsburgh rookie left fielder Bryan Reynolds singled to extend his hitting streak to 10 games, the second-longest by a Pirate to start his career since 1901, trailing only an 11-game streak by Gregory Polanco in 2014.
