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ARLINGTON, Texas — Brent Rooker homered twice to give him 33 this season, JJ Bleday and Shea Langeliers also went deep and the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 9-2 on Friday night for their first consecutive winning months in more than three years. Oakland is 14-11 in August with one game remaining in the month, after going 15-9 in July to snap a franchise-record streak of 11 consecutive full months with losing records. The A's (59-76) hadn't had consecutive winning months since May-June 2021. Bleday broke a 1-1 tie and put the A's ahead to stay in the third with his 20th homer, lining a three-run shot that just cleared the angled wall in right-center. Rooker went deep in the first and seventh innings.
