Tampa Bay limits Oakland to two hits.

For three days, the A’s got strong starting pitching against Cleveland, and they swept the defending league champ.

On Monday, rookie Daniel Gossett was mostly solid against Tampa Bay, but he gave up two homers and Oakland’s offense managed just two hits in a 3-2 loss. That ended a fivegame home winning streak.

Even though the A’s were coming off the sweep of Cleveland, they drew a crowd of 9,736 that was the smallest at the Coliseum since May 2, 2011.

“It’s always nice to have a packed house, no question about it,” first baseman Yonder Alonso said. “But at the end of the day, you’ve got to play for each other and the crowd and go out there and give it your all.”

Khris Davis blasted his 26th homer in the fourth, but that was the only hit the A’s got through the first eight innings. Jake Odorizzi scored his first win in five career starts against Oakland; he has allowed only two earned runs in 21 career innings at the Coliseum. He worked seven innings Monday, walking two and striking out five.

“He just kept us off balance, it felt like,” Alonso said. “The whole night was just a grind. He was just living on the edges, making good pitches.”

With the exception of Davis, the A’s didn’t get a man past first until Alonso led off the ninth with a double. Alonso went to third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch by Alex Colome.

Over the past 15 games, the A’s are batting .190 (91-for-479).

Gossett went seven innings, a career high, but home runs are starting to become an issue. He has given up 10 over seven starts and 381⁄3 innings.

“It was just the long ball again,” Gossett said. “Thankfully, I was able to keep them solo . ... I’m just going to have to make better pitches, especially to guys with big power numbers.”

He did some nice work in the seventh in getting out of trouble — and got some great help from his defense — after Adeiny Hechavarria led off with a ground-rule double. Jesus Sucre moved Hechavarria to third with a sacrifice, and Mallex Smith hit a tapper to first. Alonso scooped it on the short hop and fired home for the out, a bang-bang play with Bruce Maxwell slamming down the tag.

“It kind of felt like my younger days there, playing third base,” Alonso said.

“That saved my outing for sure,” Gossett said. “An awesome play.”

Steven Souza Jr. lined a homer to left off Gossett leading off the second, and Evan Longoria homered to left with two outs in the fifth.

In the third, Gossett walked Smith with one out. He moved to second on a wild pitch, and then Corey Dickerson hit a shot that Gossett got a piece of before it deflected toward short. Smith advanced to third on the single and scored on Longoria’s fielder’s choice grounder, a potential double-play ball that Marcus Semien couldn’t field cleanly.

“Took a little funny hop,” manager Bob Melvin said. “If it doesn’t, potentially we do turn it.”

Blake Treinen, acquired Sunday in the deal that sent relievers Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson to Washington, pitched in what probably would have been Doolittle’s spot, throwing a scoreless eighth in which he allowed a walk. Melvin noted that he was throwing “an easy” 98 mph.

Maxwell took a foul tip off the mask in the second inning and went down hard, but after being checked by trainers and taking some warm-up tosses, he remained in the game. “Stunned him for a minute, but he was fine as the game went on,” Melvin said.

Tampa Bay second baseman Tim Beckham was ejected in the fourth after arguing a called strike three.