A's Shut Out 8-0 By Rays

It was a record-setting July for the Oakland A's, but it ended on a sour note.

The Tampa Bay Rays shut them out 8-0 on a brilliant pitching performance by James Shield, who went the distance and allowed just three hits.

Throughout a 162 game season, a team will have occasional bad days, and this was one of them.

The runs piled up like raindrops against Tommy Milone, who allowed five runs in six innings. Evan Scribner would give up the other three runs.

The Rays scored their eight runs without the use of a home run. They racked 11 hits off of A's pitching, and seemingly had runners on base every single inning of the game.

Even with the loss, the A's still hold the second wild card spot in the AL, and are 3.5 games back of the Texas Rangers for the division lead. 

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