How They Scored

OAKLAND 2ND:   E Durazo singled to center.  J Dye grounded into double play, 
pitcher to shortstop to first, E Durazo out at second. E Chavez homered to 
right.  R Hernandez grounded out to second. (1 Run, 2 Hits, 0 Errors)  ATLANTA 0, 
OAKLAND 1.

OAKLAND 3RD:   B McMillon struck out swinging.  M Ellis grounded out to 
shortstop.  E Byrnes singled to left.  S Hatteberg doubled to right center, 
E Byrnes scored.  M Tejada flied out to center. (1 Run, 2 Hits, 0 Errors)  
ATLANTA 0, OAKLAND 2.

OAKLAND 4TH:   E Durazo doubled to deep right center.  J Dye singled to 
center, E Durazo scored.  E Chavez grounded into double play, pitcher to 
shortstop to first, J Dye out at second. R Hernandez singled to left center.  
B McMillon flied out to right. (1 Run, 3 Hits, 0 Errors)  ATLANTA 0, OAKLAND 3.

ATLANTA 6TH:   R Furcal reached on bunt single to first.  M Giles hit a 
ground rule double to right, R Furcal to third.  G Sheffield grounded out to 
third, R Furcal scored.  C Jones singled to right, M Giles scored.  A Jones 
grounded out to second, C Jones to second.  R Fick flied out to left. (2 Runs, 
3 Hits, 0 Errors)  ATLANTA 2, OAKLAND 3.

ATLANTA 9TH:   K Foulke relieved T Hudson. A Jones struck out swinging.  
R Fick homered to right.  J Lopez struck out swinging.  V Castilla grounded out 
to third. (1 Run, 1 Hit, 0 Errors)  ATLANTA 3, OAKLAND 3.

OAKLAND 12TH:   E Durazo struck out looking.  J Dye homered to left center. 
(1 Run, 1 Hit, 0 Errors)  ATLANTA 3, OAKLAND 4.

Game Story

OAKLAND, California (Ticker) -- After Keith Foulke squandered 
a ninth-inning lead, the Oakland Athletics bounced back in time
to pad the best home record in the American League.

Jermaine Dye homered off rookie Jung Bong in the bottom of the
12th inning to give the Athletics a 4-3 triumph over the Atlanta
Braves in a game started by two of the best righthanders in
baseball.

Two outs away from his 16th save of the season, Foulke served up
a solo home run to Robert Fick that tied the game, 3-3.  It was
the third blown save of the season for Foulke, who struck out
three in two innings.

But with one out in the 12th, Dye launched a 1-1 offering from
Bong (5-1) over the wall in center field to improve the
Athletics' home mark to an AL-best 20-8.

"I thought it was just going to be a line drive, but you never
know with that center fielder out there in Andruw Jones," Dye
said.  "He's a good player and it got over the wall for me. ...
It feels good to get a hit against a former team and a big one
in that way."

"First pitch was a fastball.  And then the second pitch, I threw
a changeup which was good and I had a lot of confidence to
throw a second-pitch changeup," Bong said. "I saw a good drop
and then the third pitch, I wanted to throw it again because he
was a tall guy and my thing (was to get) a ground ball with a
changeup. ... That's baseball and sometimes it happens."

The homer was the first extra-base hit since April 10 for Dye, a
former Brave who missed nearly the entire month of May
following knee surgery.

Chad Bradford (5-3) got the win, retiring all six batters he
faced.  But Foulke cost Tim Hudson his ninth straight home win
after the Oakland starter held the Braves to two runs and six
hits in eight innings.

"Obviously, when I blow saves, it bothers me a lot and when
Huddy goes out and pitches eight strong innings and I can't
secure it," Foulke said. "It's not the first time.  Maybe
there's some bad karma when we both pitch in the same game."

Four-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux was effective for
Atlanta, allowing three runs and seven hits in seven innings.
The righthander, who has not lost since May 14, walked one and
struck out two.

After the game, the two starters traded compliments.

"It was neat," Hudson said of pitching against a player he
called his idol. "Growing up watching the Braves, it was my team
growing up, and I'm still a huge fan of those guys and I'm
still a huge Maddux fan.  So there are not many people who get
to go out there and play a big league game against a guy you
grew up watching and idolizing as a kid."

"There's no question he's a very good young pitcher," Maddux
said. "I kinda wish it was in our park so we would have got a
chance to hit off each other.  You like to face the guys that
have good stuff and just to kinda see when you get to hit, you
know what our hitters are going through."

Marcus Giles went 3-for-5 for the Braves, who had their
five-game winning streak snapped.

Owning an 8-1 record in his previous 17 interleague starts,
Hudson ran into trouble right from the start.

With one out, Giles doubled to left-center field.  After Hudson
retired Gary Sheffield, he walked Chipper Jones and Andruw Jones
to load the bases before getting Fick on a comebacker to end
the threat.

Oakland, which had lost four of its previous six, got on the
board in the second on Eric Chavez's two-out solo homer.  It
extended its lead to 3-0 on Scott Hatteberg's RBI double in the
third and Dye's run-scoring single in the fourth.

Atlanta cut the deficit to 3-2 with two runs in the sixth.

Rafael Furcal bunted for a single to start the inning and Giles
ripped a ground-rule double to right field.  Sheffield grounded
out to plate Furcal and Chipper Jones followed with an RBI
single to right.

Macha elected to pull Hudson after a 95-pitch effort and called
upon his closer in the ninth.  But after striking out Andruw
Jones, Foulke delivered a 1-2 pitch that Fick deposited just
inside the right field foul pole to tie the game and extend his
hitting streak to seven games.

"It's about time I did something during the game," Fick said. "I
left a lot of runners on and it was pretty much luck.  I'm not
going to lie, so it was all right, but we lost the game, so it
really didn't matter."

"It takes a lot to get on top of a neck-high fastball and to
keep it fair down the line," Foulke said.  "You don't see that
too often.  It was nowhwere near a strike."

Both bullpens combined to retire the next 21 batters before Dye
clouted the second walk-off homer of his career.  The first came
against the Athletics in 1999, when Dye was with Kansas City.