MLB.com: With but one hit, A's manage 3-2 win over Rays
ST. PETERSBURG -
It's good to be the A's right now.
How good?
They were one-hit Wednesday night and still won for a fifth straight time.
Oakland's 3-2 victory over the host Rays, prompted by a fourth-inning solo home run from Brandon Moss and more than a little help by way of two defensive errors from the opposing side, is the club's fifth straight and 11th in its past 12 games.
"It's not the easiest way to win a baseball game," Moss said.
It is also extremely rare.
Since at least 1913, the A's had never done it in a regular-season game, only once accomplishing the feat with a one-hit win in Game 4 of the 1974 American League Championship Series at Baltimore on a Reggie Jackson double.
Moreover, Oakland is the first team to win with a home run as its only hit since the White Sox beat the Cardinals that way on June 22, 2006.
"One's all you need," a smiling Bob Melvin said.