Catastrophic June comes to an end for Oakland A’s

Ramon Laureano homers twice, but kid pitcher gets roughed up in 8-6 loss

A catastrophic June came to end for the Oakland A’s with an 8-6 loss on the road to the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night.

The A’s finished June with a 5-21 record and will carry a four-game losing streak into July.

Adrian Martinez, who was called up from Triple-A Las Vegas to pitch the game, gave up seven earned runs in 4 ⅔ innings. Martinez was one of the players acquired in the April 3 trade that sent Sean Manaea to the San Diego Padres.

Martinez gave up a run in the first inning, but Elvis Andrus tied the game up in the third inning with a solo homer to left field.

The Mariners took back the lead in the third inning with a solo shot by Julio Rodriguez in the third inning. Dylan Moore launched a two-run homer to extend Seattle’s lead to 4-1 after four innings.

Ramon Laureano tied the game in the following inning with a three-run opposite-field home run. It was a short-lived tie, as Seattle scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, highlighted by a two-run triple from Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh. He scored on the play as Nick Allen threw the ball away when Raleigh reached third.

After the A’s scored in the eighth inning, Laureano hit his second opposite-field homer in the ninth inning to cut the A’s deficit to two runs, but the A’s could not fulfill the comeback.