Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Oakland 6, Kansas City 0
When: 10:05 PM ET, Monday, August 2, 2010
Where: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature: 60°
Umpires: Home - Bill Hohn, 1B - Gary Darling, 2B - John Tumpane, 3B - Paul Emmel
Attendance: 10047

All-Star right-hander Trevor Cahill hurled his first career shutout and Rajai Davis hit a two-run homer to lead the Oakland Athletics to a 6-0 over the Kansas City Royals on Monday night.

Cahill (11-4) allowed just three hits while pitching the first complete game of his two-year career. He struck out three and walked four.

Oakland turned five double plays behind Cahill, including on a game-ending grounder in the ninth. Cahill allowed a third-inning single to Mitch Maier, an eighth-inning double to Wilson Betemit and a ninth-inning single to Chris Getz.

Davis hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning to give the Athletics an insurmountable 5-0 lead.

Oakland struck in the bottom of the first inning on Kevin Kouzmanoff’s run-scoring single.

Matt Watson added a two-run double in the fourth to give the Athletics a 3-0 edge.

Coco Crisp singled in the final Oakland run in the eighth.

Royals starter Brian Bannister (7-11) gave up five runs and seven hits in five innings.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Kansas City   Oakland
Brian Bannister Player Trevor Cahill
Loss W/L Win
5.0 IP 9.0
4 Strikeouts 3
7 Hits 3
9.00 ERA 0.00
Hitting
Kansas City   Oakland
Wilson Betemit Player Jack Cust
1 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 2
.500 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Kansas City 3 0 4 .120 9 3 0 4 0 0
Oakland 9 1 13 .290 15 5 5 7 2 0