BALTIMORE - Oakland played catching most of the day at Camden Yards, right into the ninth inning.
That’s when the A’s, facing a man who had converted 60 consecutive saves, ended that string, a moral victory of sorts before falling 8-7 on Manny Machado’s walkoff homer off Simon Castro in the 12th inning.
Jed Lowrie led off the ninth with a single off Zach Britton, Boog Powell clipped a double down the third-base line and Marcus Semien provided an RBI single. Matt Joyce’s sacrifice fly tied the game, ending Britton’s string of saves, an American League record and the second longest in major-league history.