--RHP Brad Ziegler was hit by a flying bat shard when Mike Napoli's bat shattered in the ninth inning of the series opener, leaving Ziegler with a gash under his right shoulder blade. He said Saturday morning that he was stiff and sore and that there was some concern the cut might open again when he pitched, but he pitched a 1-2-3 seventh inning on Saturday.

--RHP Joey Devine threw 20 pitches in a simulated inning on Saturday and he will do so again on Tuesday or Wednesday. Devine, whose return from 2009 "Tommy John" surgery has been slowed by several setbacks, gave his effort Saturday a "C," according to the "San Francisco Chronicle," but the newspaper reported that infielder Steve Tolleson, who faced Devine on Saturday, said, "If that's his C, I don't want to see his A." Devine still hopes to get into some action in Oakland before the end of the season.

--RHP Josh Outman, who is on a similar recovery schedule from "Tommy John" surgery as RHP Joey Devine, is not going to go out on a rehab assignment, but he is likely to get in work in instructional league play. Outman, like Devine, has had several setbacks since his 2009 surgery.

--OF Coco Crisp has been successful in each of his past 15 stolen bases, the longest such stretch by an A's player since Rickey Henderson stole 15 in a row in July-August 1998. The next number Crisp would be aiming for is Henderson's 17 in a row, two months earlier in 1998.

--3B Kevin Kouzmanoff left Sunday's game in the fifth inning with back spasms after a single; he was replaced by pinch runner Gabe Gross. Kouzmanoff is the A's leading home-run hitter with 14. There have been just two seasons in Oakland history in which the A's did not have a 20-home run hitter: 1978 (Mitchell Page, 17) and 1983 (Dwyane Murphy and Davey Lopes, 17).

BY THE NUMBERS
56-23 -- Amount by which the A's were outscored by the Yankees this season. Oakland dropped nine of 10 to New York, and after being swept in four games at Yankee Stadium last week, Oakland all but fell from the AL West race.

QUOTE TO NOTE
"I had a pep talk with the baseball today. I grabbed the ball and started yelling at it, 'C'mon, do your job.'... The baseball told me, 'Calm down, relax.'" -- A's LHP Gio Gonzalez, on a conversation he had after allowing a Josh Hamilton home run at Texas.

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