Coco Crisp's RBI single in 13th inning gives A's 1-0 win

OAKLAND - Coco Crisp singled home the winning run in the 13th inning for his eighth career game-ending RBI, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 1-0 on Friday night.

Ryon Healy doubled to start the rally against Dylan Floro (0-1), and both Healy and Crisp tossed their batting helmets in the air after the win that took 3 hours, 31 minutes.

John Axford (4-3) pitched the 12th and 13th innings for the win.

Yonder Alonso hit a leadoff single in the 11th against Erasmo Ramirez and advanced on Healy's sacrifice. Coco Crisp and Josh Reddick drew walks to load the bases. Kevin Jepsen entered and got Khris Davis to ground out.

A's rookie Sean Manaea struck out seven and didn't give up a walk in eight innings. He retired the first 14 batters he faced before Corey Dickerson's two-out single to right field in the fifth for the Rays' first baserunner.

Kevin Kiermaier led off the eighth with a single and moved to second on Luke Maile's sacrifice - just Tampa Bay's second time reaching second - and went to third on Logan Forsythe's lineout. Manaea escaped unscathed when he retired Brandon Guyer on an inning-ending fly, and the pitcher pounded his hand into his glove to celebrate.

That extended his scoreless streak over the past two starts to 15 innings.

Rays starter Jake Odorizzi hung tough with Manaea in a duel of two promising young starters. The right-hander, who snapped a six-start winless streak last Sunday against Baltimore for his first win since June 8, matched his career high with eight innings.

Manaea struck out five of the first eight batters he faced and got a nice defensive play from Healy at third base to end the second. Healy sprinted into foul territory and made a sliding catch in front of the A's dugout on Dickerson's popup.

He hasn't won in three starts and three appearances since June 29 against the Giants.

NOTES

Shortstop Marcus Semien, the only A's player who had start in every game over the first 96 contests, was told earlier in the day that he would receive a rare day off to get a mental and physical break, but he entered in the eighth. His streak of consecutive starts to begin the season was the longest by an Oakland player since Miguel Tejada started all 162 games at shortstop in 2003.