ARLINGTON, Texas—Brent Rooker homered twice to give him 33 this season, JJ Bleday and Shea Langeliers also went deep and the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 9–2 on Friday night for their first consecutive winning months in more than three years.
Oakland is 14–11 in August with one game remaining in the month, after going 15–9 in July to snap a franchise-record streak of 11 consecutive full months with losing records. The A’s (59–76) hadn’t had consecutive winning months since May-June 2021.
