why chris stratton was forced into action for the giants and what about bob, >>> abc 7 sports broughto you by river rock casino. >> bob melvin's career has come full circle. began as the skipper of the mariners in 2003 and tonight he would earn his 500 win as manager of the a's against -- you guessed it, the mariners. melvin closing in on 1,000 career victories. the a's get started early. top one, jed lowery with a drive. drives in two with his 200th career double. 3-0 a's after one. rookie paul blackburn on the hill for oakland. didn't strike out a man in 7 2/3 innings but didn't matter. 13 ground ball outs in route to his first win. tops six, two on for davis. mitch thinks he has a play on it. runs out of real estate. it is 6-0. a couple of batters later, bruce maxwell with the taco with his first long ball of the year. 7-0 a's. they win it 7-4. melvin gets his 500 win as manager of the a's. johnny cueto couldn't go because of an ear infection so chris stratton making hirst major lee star start. the giants got on the board in the sixth inning. joe panik triple also in span and panic

why chris stratton was forced into action for the giants and what about bob, but at this moment, she'shting a brain tumor. announcer: please take a moment and join st. jude in finding cures and saving children. visit stjude.org. >>> abc 7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. >> bob melvin's career has come full circle. began as the skipper of the mariners in 2003 and tonight he would earn his 500 win as manager of the a's against -- you guessed it, the mariners. melvin closing in on 1,000 career victories. the a's get started early. top one, jed lowery with a drive. drives in two with his 200th career double. 3-0 a's after one. rookie paul blackburn on the hill for oakland. didn't strike out a man in 7 2/3 innings but didn't matter. 13 ground ball outs in route to his first win. tops six, two on for davis. mitch thinks he has a play on it. runs out of real estate. it is 6-0. a couple of batters later, bruce maxwell with the taco with his first long ball of the year. 7-0 a's. they win it 7-4. melvin gets his 500 win as manager of the a's. johnny cueto couldn't go because of an ea

season) oakland wins 7-1 bob melvin record's his 500th win as an a's manager for the giants -- chris strattonting in place of johnny cueto out with an ear infectionbottom 1st/ scoreless melky cabrera back up the midle for an rbi single 1-0 tigers(cabrera: hit .364 in the series against his former team)his former series against friday. modest warming trend inland areas today into friday with more widespread highs from the upper 80s to lower 100s. marine layer deepens and stronger onshore flow returns over the weekend resulting in a cooling trend back to normal. long range pattern looks dry and seasonable. the a's in seattle opening a four-game series against the mariners marcus semien off the d-l... he was playing in his first game since april. the a's came out on fire -- jed lowrie bounces one off the wall -- oakland scores two to extend their lead 3-nothing in the first inning khris davis follows it up in the fifth with a 3-run bomb... oakland scored four runs in the inning (davis: 24th homer of season) oakland wins 7-1 bob melvin record's his 500th win as an a's manager for the giants -- ch

chris stratton maid his first career start a little rough in michigan this afternoon.etroit wins final score, 6-2. >> back in a moment with the latest on the fast moving fire morgt of the bay area. a large brush fire burning north >>> i want to give you a final update on the breaking news we've been telling you about. a lavern prr brush fire burning north of fairfield. . it's called the winter fire. burning in yolo county. at this point about 15% contained. last update we heard a thousand acres burned. the strategy now is cal fire is working to put a perimeter around the fire. some 50 homes being threatened and parts of highway 128 remain closed. latest updates online and nbc bay area.com. of course we'll monitor the situation throughout the evening. have the latest on tds as well. >> and enjoy your friday we hope to see you back here tomorrow. >> bye-bye. test. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- tom cruise. kate mara

instead, chris stratton got the ball for his first major league start. it's already 2-0 detroit in the second. when dixon machado belted his first major league home run. two-run shot tigers 4-0. their starter sanchez had a shutout working through five but in the sixth joe panik fools the photographer, hits one to the wall. span scores on the triple. giants looking to come from behind for the fourth time on the road trip within 3 in the 8th but in this castellano loops into center field. that was a good pitch. 6-2 tigers. justin wilson rang up brandon belt in the ninth. the giants fall 6-2. but -- and this is a big but -- they still finished the road trip 4-2. first winning road trip in over a year. >>> despite a rough outing last night in san jose, bruce bochy told reporters that madison bumgarner is on track to rejoin the giants rotation on july 15. bumgarner had his worst outing as a professional when he allowed 9 earned runs and 4 home runs to rancho cucamonga last night. he pays no attention to those ugly numbers. >> we got to start to pitch now and

--that means, the next man up was 26-year-old chris stratton.king his first major league start --and the tigers pounced on him early... bottom 2nd-- detroit up 2-nothing, dixon machado... sends one deep to left field. tigers lead 4-zip. --in the 6th, giants trying to rally.. joe panik...gets a triple down the first base line... and sends denard span home. still 5-1 detroit. --in the 9th, san francisco with their last chance. but they go down in order as jae gyun-hwang lines out to 2nd. 6-2 tigers your final... and stratton with a respectable 7-inning performance. here's bruce bochy on what happened pregame with cueto. -machado homer -panik triple- <>"johnny was actually prepping to get ready for the game and he got dizzy with his inner ear infection, so we weren't comfortable putting him out there in that situation.""it was definitely different, like i said, it's a dream come true to come out here and compete and i'm glad i gave our team the best chance i could to be in the game late, so." speaking of giants pitchers-- their ace madison bumgarne