OAKLAND -- The A's secured Sunday afternoon's series win over the Orioles with much ease, getting yet another superb start from Sonny Gray to complement a frenzied offense that was firing on all cylinders.Gray's dominance is becoming routine, particularly of late. The same could be said of the A's as a team, too.The right-hander's two-hit, two-run performance over 6 2/3 innings gave the A's their Major League-leading 61st win, a 10-2 romp over the Orioles that kept their 1 1/2-game lead in the American League West intact. 
The A's busted out for 15 hits, getting at least two from six of their starting nine, and their 10 runs were their most since June 17.Perhaps these are the things expected of first-place clubs -- except, as good as the A's have been, their offense had dipped in numbers this month. The A's entered the day batting just .234 in July with an average of 3.53 runs per game.Their rich pitching has kept them in games, and it was in top form on this day.Gray was one out away from completing seven innings for a fourth straight outing, but Manny Machado's RBI single on Gray's 106th pitch forced A's manager Bob Melvin out of the dugout.The only other hit Gray allowed was a fifth-inning RBI double to J.J. Hardy. He walked two and struck out eight in the win, his 11th of the season.Gray has allowed just three earned runs over his last 28 1/3 innings, in doing so lowering his ERA to 2.72 in his first full big league season.Another baby-faced hurler, Kevin Gausman, didn't fare as well. The O's righty held the A's to just five baserunners over seven innings six weeks ago but couldn't even get past the fourth in this one, allowing five runs on nine hits and two walks.The A's got all over him right out of the gates, getting a leadoff base hit from Coco Crisp and an RBI triple from John Jaso, who added a run-scoring single in the fourth.Oakland plated three more in the fifth and an additional three in the sixth.Josh Donaldson collected two hits and two RBIs, and he is now 4-for-12 with five RBIs since the start of the second half after finishing the first one with a .238 average.Craig Gentry also drove in two, as did Stephen Vogt, who finished with a team-high three hits.Jane Lee / MLB.com
The A's busted out for 15 hits, getting at least two from six of their starting nine, and their 10 runs were their most since June 17.Perhaps these are the things expected of first-place clubs -- except, as good as the A's have been, their offense had dipped in numbers this month. The A's entered the day batting just .234 in July with an average of 3.53 runs per game.Their rich pitching has kept them in games, and it was in top form on this day.Gray was one out away from completing seven innings for a fourth straight outing, but Manny Machado's RBI single on Gray's 106th pitch forced A's manager Bob Melvin out of the dugout.The only other hit Gray allowed was a fifth-inning RBI double to J.J. Hardy. He walked two and struck out eight in the win, his 11th of the season.Gray has allowed just three earned runs over his last 28 1/3 innings, in doing so lowering his ERA to 2.72 in his first full big league season.Another baby-faced hurler, Kevin Gausman, didn't fare as well. The O's righty held the A's to just five baserunners over seven innings six weeks ago but couldn't even get past the fourth in this one, allowing five runs on nine hits and two walks.The A's got all over him right out of the gates, getting a leadoff base hit from Coco Crisp and an RBI triple from John Jaso, who added a run-scoring single in the fourth.Oakland plated three more in the fifth and an additional three in the sixth.Josh Donaldson collected two hits and two RBIs, and he is now 4-for-12 with five RBIs since the start of the second half after finishing the first one with a .238 average.Craig Gentry also drove in two, as did Stephen Vogt, who finished with a team-high three hits.Jane Lee / MLB.com
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