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Tuesday, Mar. 21 9:05pm ET
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PHOENIX (AP) _ John Jaha broke a tie with a two-out, two-run single in the fifth inning and Miguel Tejada later hit a three-run triple Tuesday night as the Oakland Athletics beat Arizona 9-4, snapping the Diamondbacks' five-game winning streak. Omar Olivares didn't allow an earned run in 5 1-3 innings, picking up his second victory of the spring. He struck out four and walked four in helping Oakland improve to 15-3-1, the best spring record in the majors. Todd Stottlemyre (1-1) went 4 2-3 innings and allowed three runs on five hits, including Jaha's go-ahead base hit. Jason Giambi singled off Stottlemyre's left hip in the third innning but the pitcher shook it off and stayed in the game. Giambi also had a sacrifice fly, David McCarty and Rich Becker each had run-scoring groundouts and Arizona reliever Byung-Hyun Kim balked home a run in the seventh. The Diamondbacks scored their first two runs when Kelly Stinnet's bloop to shallow right field glanced off the glove of the charging Matt Stairs and fell for an error, allowing David Dellucci and Erubiel Durazo to score. Jay Bell walked ahead of Luis Gonzalez' triple in the seventh and scored on Matt Williams' groundout. Jorge Velandia and Becker walked and Danny Ardoin singled to load the bases before Tejada cleared them by tripling to the center field wall in the sixth, extending Oakland's lead to 7-2.
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