LHP Scott Rice made his major league-leading 25th appearance, pitching a perfect seventh and eighth inning to help secure the victory. Now 2-3 with a 3.05 ERA, Rice has pitched 20.2 innings and worked two full innings for the second time this season. CF Juan Lagares collected his first major league home run, a game-tying two-run shot with two outs in the seventh innings. He also doubled in the third, marking the first multi-hit game of his career.

LHP Wade Miley (3-3) was beaten by the lowly Miami Marlins on Sunday. He went six innings, allowing five hits, one walk and two runs, striking out six. He pitched around one-out doubles by Jeff Mathis in the third and Chris Coghlan in the fifth before the Marlins finally got to him with two runs in the sixth.

RF Yoenis Cespedes entered Sunday batting .198. Manager Bob Melvin, however, had no plans to remove him from the lineup. "He's fine," said the manager. "He's just an aggressive swinger. He's staying, because when he's in the lineup he takes the pressure off everybody. He's so important." He ended up hitting the game-winning homer in the eighth inning Sunday.

The Oakland Athletics selected the contract of pitcher Hideki Okajima from minor-league affiliate Sacramento on Friday before their Major League Baseball game against Kansas City. Left-hander Okajima went 0-1 with a 2.16 earned-run average in 14 relief appearances with Sacramento this season. The 37-year-old spent five seasons with the Boston Red Sox from 2007-11 and was a major contributor to Boston's 2007 World Series title run. He went 3-2 with a 2.22 ERA and five saves over 66 appearances that year, earning a spot on the American League All-Star squad.