OAKLAND -- To continue their surprise ascension to one of baseball's best teams this season, the A's will need their starting rotation to take the load off an elite bullpen. In a three-game series sweep against the Tigers, Oakland got exactly that, from names that sound like a blast from the past: Brett Anderson, Edwin Jackson and Trevor Cahill.
Cahill recorded 10 strikeouts in a 6-0 win over the Tigers on Sunday at the Coliseum, as the A's claimed their sixth straight victory, swept their second straight series and extended baseball's best record since June 16 (33-10).