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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Harrison Bader hit a grand slam that capped an eight-run eighth inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the sloppy Athletics 10-1 on Sunday in 25-35 mph winds.<\/p>\n

Luis Arraez also homered and finished with three hits for the Giants, who took two of three games in the first series this season between the Northern California rivals.<\/p>\n

Adrian Houser (2-4) allowed one run in six innings, pitching around five walks.<\/p>\n

Athletics reliever Luis Medina loaded the bases with nobody out in the eighth and the Giants leading 2-1. Bader started the rally when he was safe on an error by Zack Gelof at third base \u2014 his second of the game.<\/p>\n

Rafael Devers hit an RBI single, and another run scored on the play when center fielder Lawrence Butler committed a fielding error. Daniel Susac had an RBI groundout and Jung Hoo Lee singled in a run before Bader\u2019s wind-aided slam to right.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

The wind cost Bader a potential grand slam Saturday when his drive was blown in a couple of feet and pushed 20 feet to the right, according to @WeatherApplied<\/a>. His 346-foot shot Sunday carried 7 feet farther and 18 feet to the right thanks to the stiff breeze, turning it into a home run.<\/p>\n

\n Arraez also took advantage<\/a> of wind blowing out to right field when he homered for the second time in the series \u2014 and this season \u2014 for a 1-0 lead against Jeffrey Springs in the third.<\/p>\n

Willy Adames reached on a throwing error by Gelof, advanced on a balk and scored on a two-out double by Matt Chapman to make it 2-0 in the fourth.<\/p>\n

The Athletics cut it to 2-1 in the fifth on a pop-fly RBI double by Carlos Cortes that Adames lost in the sun at shortstop before it bounced off a diving Chapman’s glove.<\/p>\n

Nick Kurtz walked three times and extended his on-base streak to 40 games, tied for the third-longest in A’s history behind Mark McGwire (62) and Rickey Henderson (46).<\/p>\n

Sam Hentges, Keaton Winn and Joel Peguero closed it out for the Giants.<\/p>\n

Springs (3-4) allowed two runs \u2014 one earned \u2014 and five hits in six innings.<\/p>\n

Giants LHP Robbie Ray (3-5, 3.04 ERA) starts Monday’s series opener in Arizona against RHP Zac Gallen (1-4, 5.02).<\/p>\n

Athletics RHP J.T. Ginn (2-1, 3.12 ERA) starts Monday on the road opposite Angels RHP Walbert Ure\u00f1a (1-4, 3.29).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Harrison Bader hit a grand slam that capped an eight-run eighth inning and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[103071,116495,96455,133759,74527,116943,95094,72189,104077,116497,73483,133761,133760,46987,32869,2390,5341,5337,5339,5340,49642,77298,95100,101,103,102,104,106,105,46986,47668,99759],"class_list":["post-320728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-adrian-houser","tag-carlos-cortes","tag-daniel-susac","tag-giants-athletics-score-bader-arraez","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jeffrey-springs","tag-joel-peguero","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-keaton-winn","tag-lawrence-butler","tag-luis-arraez","tag-luis-medina","tag-mark-mcgwire","tag-matt-chapman","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-rafael-devers","tag-robbie-ray","tag-sam-hentges","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-willy-adames","tag-zac-gallen","tag-zack-gelof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}