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A’s allow Yankees their first 4-game sweep in Oakland since 1979

Bee Sports Staff
Oakland A’s pinch hitter Billy Butler reacts after a called strike as New York Yankees catcher Brian McCann returns the ball in the eighth inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 22, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. Butler wasn’t the only Athletics player frustrated in this series. The Yankees completed a four-game sweep Sunday.
Oakland A’s pinch hitter Billy Butler reacts after a called strike as New York Yankees catcher Brian McCann returns the ball in the eighth inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 22, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. Butler wasn’t the only Athletics player frustrated in this series. The Yankees completed a four-game sweep Sunday. Eric Risberg The Associated Press

Michael Pineda won for the first time since his opening start this season, Starlin Castro hit a tiebreaking, two-out single in the sixth inning and the New York Yankees beat the A’s 5-4 on Sunday at the Coliseum to complete a four-game sweep, the team’s first in Oakland since 1979.

“It doesn’t feel good,” A’s manager Bob Melvin told The Associated Press. “I don’t know that we could have fought much harder at the end of this game. (We were) ahead by a run and we got our best guys rested in the bullpen. We just couldn’t finish it off.”

This story was originally published May 22, 2016 at 6:04 PM with the headline "A’s allow Yankees their first 4-game sweep in Oakland since 1979."

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