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A's Continue Dominance Over Giants With 4-1 Win

Friday, June 27, 2008 – updated: 10:22 pm PDT June 27, 2008

The Oakland Athletics have owned the San Francisco Giants in interleague play.

Dana Eveland pitched his second-longest outing of the year to win his second straight decision, Jack Hannahan drove in two runs and the A's extended their winning streak against the Giants to seven games with a 4-1 victory Friday night.

The streak is Oakland's longest ever in the Bay Area rivalry, and the A's also have won 10 of the last 11 and 15 of 19.

"These things are streaky," San Francisco skipper Bruce Bochy said before the game. "Sometimes things are hard to explain."

In fact, the A's ran an advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday referring to their dominance in the series. It said: "The battle of the Bay is 100 percent baseball," but the word battle was crossed out and the ad continued by saying, "Well, when you've won eight of the last night it's not exactly a 'battle."'

At least some of the Giants were a little annoyed by the ad.

Randy Winn put San Francisco ahead with an RBI single in the third on a windy and smoky night in Northern California because of nearby fires. But the Giants did little else against Eveland (6-5), who went 7 1-3 innings and allowed one or fewer earned runs for the seventh time in his 16 starts. Brad Ziegler got the final two outs of the eighth and Huston Street pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 15th save in 18 opportunities.

The A's tied the game in the bottom of the fourth on Hannahan's RBI single, then took the lead in the sixth against loser Keiichi Yabu (3-4), who failed to retire a batter for the third straight outing. Yabu has given up eight consecutive hits and seven of those baserunners scored.

Hannahan added a sacrifice fly in the decisive inning and Emil Brown and Daric Barton each singled in runs. Carlos Gonzalez hit a pair of doubles and scored twice.

Giants starter Kevin Correia hasn't won in five starts since April 10 and is 0-2 in three starts since coming off the DL on June 15 after straining a muscle in his left side.

Oakland swept a three-game interleague series in San Francisco from June 13-15 and has back-to-back three-game sweeps in the series.

The Giants landed back home in the Bay Area at 3 a.m. after Thursday night's game in Cleveland was delayed 1 hour, 42 minutes by rain. Some San Francisco players took batting practice in their own ballpark before the team received a police escort across the bay during busy Friday rush-hour traffic.

Yabu, who pitched in 2005 for Oakland in his only other major league season, showed up at the ballpark at 1 p.m. to catch up with old friends and hang out.

"Lost in translation," joked teammate Dave Roberts, who is part Japanese himself.

San Francisco Giants

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Los Angeles (84-77) 1
San Francisco (71-89) 3

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