Oakland’s 13th win in row is elemental

Bad weather can’t slow down seasoned Bassitt

Neither O’s nor rain nor gloom of night could stay these Athletics from the swift completion of their 13th consecutive victory.

Well, maybe it wasn’t so swift — the game lasted 3 hours, 19 minutes — but Oakland still has not lost since April 8. On a wet Saturday evening at Camden Yards, the A’s rolled over Baltimore 72.

The A’s have outscored their opponents 8136 during the streak.

Unprompted, winner Chris Bassitt sounded as if he were invoking the post office’s motto when asked about pitching in lessthanideal conditions.

“I have a lot of experience pitching in crappy weather, growing up in Ohio,” Bassitt said. “Snow, rain, wet, cold — (they) don’t really affect me that much.”

Five of the first 10 Baltimore hitters reached base, but Bassitt (22) still managed to get through six innings. The A’s Opening Night starter gave up two runs on eight hits. He struck out eight and walked one.

Said manager Bob Melvin of Bassitt: “I didn’t think at one

point he was going to end up giving me six innings, but he did.”

During the win streak, Oakland starters are 90 with a 2.78 ERA (22 earned runs in 711⁄3 innings).

The A’s have not trailed in the two games at Camden.

Mark Canha led off Saturday’s game by lining a pitch from Wade LeBlanc (01) to right for a double. Canha moved to third on Jed Lowrie’s liner to right.

Matt Olson then fisted a popup to right that barely got past the infield dirt. But because the Orioles were playing the infield in, neither second baseman Rio Ruiz nor first baseman Trey Mancini could make the grab.

Olson benefited with an RBI single. The A’s owned a 10 lead and Olson extended his hitting streak to nine games.

Canha and Olson figured prominently as Oakland scored three times in the second inning. With one out, Canha drilled a tworun single to left on which Elvis Andrus got a great jump from second.

With two outs, Olson muscled an oppositefield double to bring home Canha from first to make it a 40 game. That ended LeBlanc’s night.

Canha wound up scoring three times Saturday. He leads the majors with 23 runs.

In the fourth, Lowrie drilled a Tyler Wells pitch over the rightfield wall. The threerun shot made it 71.

That gave Lowrie 17 RBIs this season, tying him with Olson for the team lead.

Canha (.274), Lowrie (.296) and Olson (.338) were the only three men in the A’s lineup who finished Saturday hitting above .225.

“We’re in a great spot right now,” said Andrus, who went 2for4 to raise his average to

.169. “We still have a few guys who haven’t turned up the engines yet. Olson and Canha and Jed are pulling the whole offense so far this year.

“As soon as myself and Chappy and the rest of the guys get it going, it’s gonna be even more fun.”

Though third baseman Matt Chapman is hitting .162, the A’s on Sunday have a chance to tie the 1988 American League champions for the secondlongest win streak in Oakland history. The 2002 team holds the record at 20.

Briefly: A’s outfielder Stephen Piscotty went 0for5 with four strikeouts. His average fell to .222 . ... The Orioles fell to 18 at home. They’re 74 away from Camden.

Gail Burton / Associated Press Oakland’s Jed Lowrie (right) celebrates his threerun home run — which gave him 17 RBIs this season — with Elvis Andrus (17) and Mark Canha in the fourth inning at Camden Yards.