Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Oakland 5, Seattle 1
When: 3:40 PM ET, Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature: 67°
Umpires: Home - Dan Iassogna, 1B - Dale Scott, 2B - Jerry Meals, 3B - Cory Blaser
Attendance: 31560

Dallas Braden pitched his fourth career complete game and Mark Ellis had three doubles and three RBIs as the Oakland Athletics earned a 5-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday afternoon.

Braden (7-8) tossed a four-hitter, allowing one run with six strikeouts in picking up his first career victory at Safeco Field. It was just his third win in nine decisions since tossing a perfect game on May 9.

Ellis gave the A’s a 4-0 lead with a two-run double in the fifth inning and added an RBI double in the eighth. Coco Crisp and Landon Powell each had RBI singles for Oakland, which avoided the three-game sweep.

Seattle, which had its three-game winning streak snapped, scored on Franklin Gutierrez’s sacrifice fly in the seventh.

Luke French (1-3) took the loss, allowing four runs on seven hits in six innings for the last-place Mariners, who moved to 1-2 under interim manager Daren Brown.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Oakland   Seattle
Dallas Braden Player Luke French
Win W/L Loss
9.0 IP 6.0
6 Strikeouts 2
4 Hits 7
1.00 ERA 6.00
Hitting
Oakland   Seattle
Mark Ellis Player Russell Branyan
3 Hits 1
3 RBI 0
0 HR 0
6 TB 1
.750 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Oakland 8 0 13 .242 18 4 5 5 1 0
Seattle 4 0 4 .148 7 6 1 2 0 0