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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Brandon McCarthy thought he had a double play. Tony Gonzalez Youth Jersey . Instead, the Texas Rangers had a successful squeeze bunt and the lead, and the Oakland As had a mess on their hands. The As bounced back from the disputed sequence that ended with manager Bob Melvin ejected and McCarthy in the dugout, and Kila Kaaihue had a tiebreaking single in the 10th inning to give Oakland a 5-4 victory against Texas on Thursday. After Mitch Morelands second home run off McCarthy tied the score in the sixth inning, the Rangers took the lead when speedster Craig Gentry broke from third as Elvis Andrus popped up a bunt between the mound and home plate. McCarthy thought he caught the ball on the fly and threw to third for what he figured would be a double play, but home plate umpire Laz Diaz ruled he trapped it. Gentry was ruled safe for a 4-3 Texas lead, and Oakland didnt get anybody out. Melvin ran from the dugout to argue, gesturing repeatedly at Diaz before he was finally thrown out. Replays were inconclusive. "I threw the ball to third. Then he said I trapped it. I said, What? and sort of flew off the handle," McCarthy said. "I was pretty furious once the disbelief set in." Reliever Grant Balfour replaced McCarthy after the disputed bunt and didnt give up a run even though the Rangers had men at second and third with one out. Oakland then tied the score again in the seventh on Josh Reddicks 10th home run. The shot into the Rangers bullpen in right-centre field ended Texas reliever Alexi Ogandos scoreless streak at 15 1-3 innings. "That was a huge momentum swing," Melvin said. "They have the lead, with guys who have had a lot of success in the bullpen. It was a huge pick-me-up for us." The Rangers had runners at first and third with one out in the ninth but couldnt score off Ryan Cook (1-0), who picked up his first major league win and has 19 2-3 scoreless innings this season, most among AL relievers. Michael Young reached on a two-base error by Josh Donaldson and went to third on a groundout. Nelson Cruz struck out between intentional walks to David Murphy and Mike Napoli, then Brandon Snyder grounded out with the bases loaded. Texas ended up stranding 14 runners. "That situation with a man on second and nobody out in the bottom of the ninth, you just have to figure out a way to let nobody score," Cook said. Kaaihues winning hit off Mike Adams (0-2) drove in Jonny Gomes, who had three hits. Moreland pulled Texas to 3-2 with a two-run homer just over the left field fence in fourth and tied it with a deeper shot to right in the sixth. He has six homers. Josh Hamilton watched both of those from the dugout and was supposed to have the day off. He came on as a pinch-hitter and stayed in the game in centre field. He made the first out in the eighth and 10th innings, ending his AL-best 16-game hitting streak. Moreland never got a chance for a third home run. Manager Ron Washington decided to replace him in the seventh with Snyder when Oakland went to left-handed reliever Jordan Norberto. Snyder flied out to right with the go-ahead run at second and ended up missing on two chances to give to the Rangers the lead. "I always want to play," Moreland said. "Hes the manager. He makes the decision." McCarthy gave up eight hits and four runs in 5 1-3 innings, with three walks and four strikeouts. Matt Harrison allowed the first five batters to reach base in a three-run Oakland first inning before pitching four shutout frames. He allowed at least one hit in all five innings, then was replaced by Mark Lowe after striking out Kaaihue to start the sixth. Harrison allowed eight hits and three runs in 5 1-3 innings. He walked three and struck out three. Kurt Suzuki had a two-run double in the first for Oakland after Gomes drove in the first run with a double. NOTES: Oakland put 3B Brandon Inge on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right groin. The move was retroactive to Sunday. He started the season on the DL when he was still with Detroit. That time it was a strained left groin. ... Inges replacement, Adam Rosales, started at 1B after getting recalled from Triple-A Sacramento and reached base in all four at-bats, his first of the season. He had three walks and a single. ... Oaklands Jemile Weeks was caught stealing on Harrisons pickoff move in the first inning, ending Oaklands streak of 20 straight successful stolen bases. That was two shy of the club record. ... RHP Joe Nathan pitched on three consecutive days for the first time since joining the Rangers. He had a perfect ninth. 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Rusch pitched 7.1 innings, allowing no runs on just four hits as the Goldeyes shutout the St.Paris, France (Sports Network) - Maria Sharapova continued to dominate her early opposition at the French Open, while defending champion Li Na and reigning Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova each came away with tough wins on Saturday. Former champ Francesca Schiavone, meanwhile, was shown an early exit as the third round of the years second major championship began to wind down. Sharapova needs only a French Open title to complete a career Grand Slam and has simply rolled through the first three rounds. The second-seeded Russian had her toughest match to date on Saturday with a 6-2, 6-1 pasting of Chinas Peng Shuai. It took a mere 66 minutes, but it was the longest time the three-time Grand Slam winner was on the court in the first week. Sharapova dispatched Alexandra Cadantu in a first-round double-bagel in 48 minutes, then dropped just two games in a 60-minute thumping of Ayumi Morita in the second round. "I just see it as I played really good matches, beat great players," said Sharapova. "And Ive got to keep moving forward and try to do that again." Another unseeded player awaits Sharapova in the fourth round, as Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic dumped 22nd-seeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6-3, 7-5, on Saturday. It wasnt nearly as easy for Li or Kvitova. Li, who beat Schiavone in last years final at Roland Garros to become the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam event, had to rally for a 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 victory over American Christina McHale. The fourth-seeded Kvitova also had to go the distance, claiming a 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 triumph over Russian Nina Bratchikova. Next up for the Czech star will be American Varvara Lepchenko, who took out Schiavone, 3-6, 6-3, 8-6. Schiavone became the first Italian woman to capture a Grand Slam title when she won the 2010 French Open and nearly repeated last year. She could have earned a rematch with Li in this years quarterfinals, but ran into an opponent that had already given her trouble this year. Lepchenko, a Uzbekistan-born resident of Allentown, Pennsylvania, beat Schiavone last month in the first round of the Madrid Open. Lepchenko also took out Jelena Jankovic in the second round this week and is in the midst of her best Grand Slam tournament. In 14 previous majors, Lepchenko had never been past the second round. "It was two completely different matches when I played her in Madrid and here," said Lepchenko about facing Schiavone. "In Madrid, she was missing so much and making easy errors, and here she started out amazing. I was like, oh, now I know why she won a Grand Slam. "I had to really pull it together and sttay very aggressive and fight," she added. Roddy White Falcons Jersey. "Till the very end, I didnt know if Im gonna win, but I kept believing in myself." Li, meanwhile, struggled through the first set Saturday with 24 unforced errors. She quickly regrouped and committed just 20 for the remainder of the match. The Chinese star picked up an early break for a 3-1 lead in the third set and it proved too much for McHale, who failed to win another game. "Tennis is the best of three sets," said Li. "In the first set, I always followed what she did. I changed a little bit in the beginning of the second set and [got her] to play my way." The seventh-seeded Li will next meet Kazakhstans Yaroslava Shvedova, who advanced Saturday with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Spains Carla Suarez Navarro. Former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki made another early exit at a major, as Estonias Kaia Kanepi sent the ninth-seeded Dane home with a 6-1, 6-7 (3-7), 6-3 defeat. It marked Wozniackis second straight third-round setback at the French. Wozniacki, despite finishing the 2010 and 2011 seasons as the top-ranked player, has never won a Grand Slam event. She reached one final, losing to Kim Clijsters at the 2009 U.S. Open, and her best result on the storied red clay of Paris was a quarterfinal in 2010. Kanepi squandered a huge lead Saturday, and did so more than once. She held a 5-1 cushion in the second set and had a pair of match points. Wozniacki saved both and went on to win 14 straight points to get back into the match, but Kanepi won the 11th game after falling behind 0-40 and had another chance to serve it out, but failed and Wozniacki easily won the tiebreaker. Again Kanepi built a 5-1 lead in the third set and watched Wozniacki win two straight games, but this time the 23rd seed finally finished it off and is in position to reach the quarterfinals for the second time at Roland Garros. She did so previously in 2008 and will vie for a spot in this years round of 16 against Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands. Rus advanced Saturday with a 7-6 (7-5), 2-6, 6-2 win over Germanys Julia Goerges. Fourth-round play begins Sunday with top-seeded Victoria Azarenka and 2009 French champ Svetlana Kuznetsova in action. Azarenka will take on 15th-seeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova, while Kuznetsova, coming off a third-round win over third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, will battle Italys Sara Errani, who knocked out 2008 French winner Ana Ivanovic in the third round. Also, 2010 runner-up Samantha Stosur will meet American Sloane Stephens and 10th-seeded German Angelique Kerber will square off against Croatias Petra Martic. ' ' '