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The San Francisco Giants fell to their Bay Area Rival Oakland Athletics 5-1 Monday Night in game 1 of this Bay Bridge Series. 

Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez battled and competed, but once again struggled with command of his secondary pitches and lasted only 5 1/3 innings giving up 8 hits, 4 earned runs and had 3 walks to 3 strikeouts and suffered his 8th loss of this season in this setback to the A’s.

Oakland A’s rookie 21-year old starter Trevor Cahill stole the show and dominated the Giants offense as they struggled to get anything going against him.  Cahill went 7 innings giving up only 4 hits on one run and had 5 strikeouts in the outing. Cahill is now 5-5 on the season. 

Cahill’s only blunder was a solo home run in the 2nd inning off the bat of Giants firstbaseman Travis Ishikawa, his 4th of the season. 

A’s offense was led by Orlando Cabrera, who went 2 for 4 with a run scored and an RBI and Bobby Crosby, who went 1 for 4 with 3 RBI’s in the game.  

Giants hitting sensation Pablo Sandoval only went 1 for 4 with a double, seeing his average drop a couple points to .336, still good for 3rd in hitting in the NL behind the Dodgers Juan Pierre (.337) and All-Star thirdbaseman David Wright (.348)

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