Montas leads A’s to 6th straight win, over Tigers

OAKLAND >> Frankie Montas allowed two hits in six sharp innings and the Oakland Athletics won their sixth straight game by beating the Detroit Tigers 3- 0 on Friday night.

After opening the season with six consecutive losses, the roller- coaster A’s are back at .500 after 14 games thanks to their

follow-up winning streak.

Oakland joined the 1991 Mariners and 1915 White Sox as the only teams to have both a six-game winning streak and six- game losing streak in the first 14 games of a season, according to SportRadar.

The recent run has been fueled by strong starting pitching.

Montas (2-1) gave up only an infield single to Robbie Grossman and a clean single to Victor Reyes during an impressive 100- pitch outing.

He walked one struck out seven.

A’s starters are 4- 0 with a 3.13 ERA during the winning

and streak after going 0-7 with a 7.91 ERA in the first eight games.

Mitch Moreland and Sean Murphy had twoout RBI hits in the fourth against José Ureña (0- 3). The Tigers have lost backto-back games to Oakland following a three- game sweep at Houston.

Matt Chapman added a home run in the eighth. Lou Trivino pitched the ninth for his second save.