OAKLAND — Pinch hitter Tyler Soderstrom walked four pitches with the bases loaded to cap a five-run rally in the bottom of the 11th inning Wednesday as the Athletics beat the Colorado Rockies 10-9 at the Coliseum.
Soderstrom was hitting for Daz Cameron, who homered to tie the score in the ninth. The A’s scored all their runs starting in the seventh inning in a game they led 4-0. They even outlasted Colorado and faced Mason Miller in the 10th and 11th innings.
Trailing 9-5 in the bottom of the 11th, the Athletics evened the score against reliever Matt Koch without recording an out as Max Schuemann doubled home free runner Daz Cameron, Abraham Toro singled in a run and JJ Bleday scored to tie the score.
After getting a run against Miller in the 11th, Jake Cave hit an RBI single and Brenton Doyle an infield single that scored a runner from third with two outs before Mark Kotsay brought in Brandon Bielek. Bielek quickly gave up a two-run double to Brendan Rodgers for a 9-5 margin.
Miller allowed three hits and five runs, two earned, in 1 2/3 innings. He intentionally walked one and struck out two. Miller had not given up a race in his previous 15 appearances.
JD Davis hit a two-run homer in the eighth for the A’s, with newcomer Cameron leading off the ninth and tying the game 4-4. It was Davis’ third homer of the season. Bleday’s home run was his seventh of the season.
In the bottom of the 10th, Zack Gelof hit a Seth Brown free runner single against Justin Lawrence to tie the score 5-5. The Athletics had two runners on board with one out and a chance to win, but Cameron grounded into a double play to send it to the 11th.
Colorado scored in the 10th against Miller on a Jordan Beck sacrifice fly. He brought home free runner Brendan Rodgers, who was picked off third by Kris Bryant.
The Athletics tied it in the ninth when Cameron, making his franchise debut, led off the ninth with a home run to left field against Colorado reliever Jordan Beeks. Max Schuemann followed with a single, but the Rockies got out of the inning without further damage when Lawrence retired Seth Brown on a pop to second.
Starter Joey Estes went seven innings in front of an announced crowd of 6,886, allowing four hits and four earned runs with no walks and six strikeouts. He threw 93 pitches, 73 of which were strikes, bouncing back well from an 8-1 loss at Houston where he allowed eight earned runs and walked four in 3 2/3 innings.
Ryan Feltner pitched six shutout innings for Colorado, allowing four hits with two walks and four strikeouts. The A’s broke through in the seventh for a run against Victor Vodnik on Max Schuemann’s single, but Abraham Toro grounded into a double play to prevent a bigger heave.
Davis got the A’s within one in the eighth with a two-run homer, his fourth, off Tyler McKinley.
Estes allowed two runs in the first and two in the sixth, but did some good things in between, including giving up the team in the fourth and fifth innings on a total of 17 pitches.
In the sixth, Ezequiel Tovar led off with a double and was hit on a single in the third by Jake Cave. Ryan McMahon was next, and his pop volley to the shallow right fell to the grass. Tovar scored and Cave was forced to second. McMahon ended up scoring on a Jacob Stallings single.
In the first, Tovar doubled to start the game and Estes also gave up doubles to Elhuris Montero and Brenton Doyle. Doyle drove in a run, the first scoring run when JJ Bleday mistakenly threw after a line drive to center, allowing Tovar to score.
Scott Alexander took over for Estes in the seventh inning.
Next up are three games at the Coliseum against Houston, who swept the A’s in four games on their disastrous road trip. The Astros outscored Oakland 22-4 in the series.
In his debut with the A’s, left fielder Daz Cameron left five runners on base in his first two at-bats. On the first, with Davis third and Kyle McCann second, Cameron’s fly to center was too shallow for Davis, a slow runner, to be sent home.
In the fourth, it happened again. The bases were loaded with Davis on third, and this time Cameron’s steal to shallow right-left runners at their stations. Both times, Schuemann followed with the third out, a strikeout in the second and a fly to left in the fourth.
Cameron also had an infield single in the seventh, following a double by Kyle McCann and preceding Schuemann’s RBI single.
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