Marcum throws gem as Blue Jays shut down A's

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08/17/2010 - Oakland, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Shaun Marcum pitched his first career complete game, allowing just one hit in a 3-1 Blue Jays win over the Athletics.

Marcum (11-6) pitched no-hit ball through six innings before giving up a leadoff homer to Conor Jackson in the seventh. He walked just one and hit a batter while fanning five in the gem.

"There's no what-ifs," Marcum said of a possible no-hitter. "I'm one of those guys -- I don't have no-hit stuff. So, it's just a combination of going out there, keeping the ball down and going from there."

Jose Bautista hit his league-leading 37th home run of the season, an inside- the-parker, while Edwin Encarnacion added a two-run shot. Jose Molina went 4- for-4 in Toronto's fourth win in five games.

Brett Anderson (3-4) was the hard-luck loser after giving up three runs -- two earned -- on seven hits and a walk in six innings. The A's have now lost four in a row.

"Times like these are tough, but it's baseball. You get to play baseball for a living, it's not too bad. You have to come to the field and have fun every day," Anderson said.

The game was scoreless until the fourth, when Bautista led off the inning with a home run. The ball appeared to bounce off the low portion of the foul pole just above the left field wall, but the ball remained in play, and Bautista sprinted around the bases easily without a play at home.

In the fifth, Lyle Overbay began the frame by reaching on an error, and Encarnacion hammered an Anderson offering over the wall in left to give the Blue Jays a 3-0 lead.

Meanwhile, Marcum was dominant. He retired the first eight batters before hitting Cliff Pennington with a pitch. Pennington was subsequently caught stealing to end the third.

Marcum allowed a one-out walk in the fourth, but retired the other three hitters in the inning, and set down six of the next seven hitters to maintain the no-hitter through six innings. One Oakland batter reached on an error.

However, Marcum's no-hit bid came to end in the seventh, as Jackson blasted the first pitch of the inning for a home run to left-center, cutting the Athletics' deficit to two.

Marcum settled down, though, retiring the last nine batters he faced to polish off the victory.

Game Notes

Bautista has 11 homers in his last 20 games...Marcum had allowed 13 runs over 10 innings in his last two starts, both losses...The Athletics snapped a seven-game homerless skid with Jackson's shot. The team has not gone eight games without a HR since 1983...Toronto leads the season series, 4-1...Jackson was reinstated from the 15-day disabled list prior to the game. Additionally, outfielder Travis Buck was recalled from Triple-A Sacramento. To make room on the roster, Oakland optioned both infielder Jeff Larish and outfielder Chris Carter to Sacramento...Bautista recorded his second inside-the-park home run of the season.

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