Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Florida 5, Oakland 4
When: 3:35 PM ET, Thursday, June 30, 2011
Where: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature: 64°
Umpires: Home - Chris Conroy, 1B - Tom Hallion, 2B - Phil Cuzzi, 3B - Bill Miller
Attendance: 18395

Chris Volstad threw seven superb innings and Hanley Ramirez drove in a pair of runs Thursday, helping the visiting Florida Marlins wrap up the worst month in franchise history with second straight win, 5-4 over the Oakland Athletics.

Logan Morrison and former A’s catcher John Buck each drove in two runs for the Marlins, who finished June 5-23 - by far their worst month in franchise history.

Volstad (4-7) allowed just an unearned run for his second straight win. The righthander’ s strong performance and a four-run fifth inning propelled Florida to its first winning streak since a three-game sweep of San Francisco from May 24-26.

Florida sent nine hitters to the plate in the fifth against Trevor Cahill (8-6) and led 5-1 after seven innings, but it wasn't easy. Nothing has been for the Marlins this month.

Coco Crisp and Kurt Suzuki each homered for Oakland, ending the A’s franchise-record stretch of 32 straight games without multiple home runs. Suzuki’s two-run homer in the ninth cut the lead to 5-4, but Leo Nunez finished it off for his 22nd save in 25 chances.

Cahill had his five-game interleague winning streak snapped. The righthander allowed five runs – four earned - and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Florida   Oakland
Chris Volstad Player Trevor Cahill
Win W/L Loss
7.0 IP 4.2
0 Strikeouts 3
7 Hits 9
0.00 ERA 7.71
Hitting
Florida   Oakland
John Buck Player David DeJesus
2 Hits 2
2 RBI 0
0 HR 0
3 TB 2
.500 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Florida 10 0 13 .286 12 6 4 3 1 1
Oakland 10 2 17 .286 12 3 4 2 0 2