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.

3B Josh Donaldson went 2 for 4 Saturday, with a single and a home run, but he appeared to turn his right ankle in the top of the ninth inning. Donaldson was trying to turn a single off the left-field wall into a double, but he injured his ankle on the slide and got thrown out at second base. Donaldson said after the game that he was initially "kind of scared" but added that the injury was "not that big a deal."

The San Diego Padres snatched a victory on Thursday afternoon and earned a split of four-game road trip. When they host the Arizona Diamondbacks in the opener of a three-game series on Friday, the last-place Padres will be looking for their fifth straight home win. The Diamondbacks have lost three straight and have had trouble closing out games throughout the first month. Arizona blew its league-leading 10th save on Wednesday.

Boston righthander Clay Buchholz took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and struck out 11 as the Red Sox blanked the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0 on Sunday at Fenway Park. Buchholz had issued just four walks before surrendering a leadoff single to Kelly Johnson in the top of the eighth. He gave up one more hit before completing the inning. It was the third consecutive superb effort to start the season for Buchholz, who has surrendered just one run over 14 innings. Dustin Pedroia went three-for-four with a run scored to pace the Red Sox offense.