OAKLAND — A bullpen implosion in the eighth inning Sunday left the Athletics on the wrong side of a 6-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners in the rubber match of a three-game series at the Coliseum.
Seattle scored four times against Lou Trivino (2-5) and Yusmeiro Petit, sending a Father’s Day crowd of 30,242 at the Coliseum home disappointed.
The Athletics are 36-36, the seventh time this month and 16th time this season they’ve had a .500 record. Seattle, with Mike Leake (6-6) giving up three runs (two earned) in seven innings, is 30-44. Austin Adams pitched a scoreless seventh for the Mariners, with Roenis Elias pitching the ninth.