Rangers pummel A’s Raul Alcantara in 10-5 victory

In the first inning, Matt Joyce hit a blast to center field that Carlos Gomez grabbed with a leap, his glove outstretched over the fence.

[...] in the bottom of the inning, Oakland was on the wrong side of a replay challenge that appeared, on tape, to have resulted in a Rangers out.

Mazara, safe on the upheld call, then scored on a two-out homer by Rougned Odor.

The next inning, Mazara hit a grand slam off Raul Alcantara and the A’s fell 10-5, eventually.

Joyce did hit his first homer of the season, a three-run shot in the third off former A’s starter A.J. Griffin, and Khris Davis belted his third home run in the team’s first five games, a solo shot in the fourth.

Davis, who hit 10 homers against Texas last year — the most ever against the Rangers in one season — has 12 career homers against them, his most against any team.

[...] while fifth starter Alcantara struggled, giving up eight runs in two innings, Jesse Hahn, called up Wednesday, turned in a nice effort in his first-ever relief effort for Oakland.

Hahn gave up two runs in the sixth on Gomez’s bloop double to center and an RBI single by Mazara, but he worked six innings, and his fastball hit 96-97 mph.

“I wanted to give our team a shot to get back in it, so I just went out and tried to pitch off my fastball,” he said.

Hahn could wind up back in the rotation if there is a need, but right-hander Sonny Gray is expected to be back from a lat strain before the end of the month, and whoever is in the fifth-starter spot at that point likely would be bumped to the bullpen or off the roster.