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ST .PETERSBURG Joe DiMaggio Jersey , Fla. (AP) — e 10th inning with his major league-leading 42nd homer, and the Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 on Friday night.“I’ve always said he’s one swing away from winning a game for you,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said. “He’s developed a knack for hitting good pitching and hitting dramatic homers late in games.”Oakland improved its majors-best record in one-run games to 29-12 and extended its lead for the second AL wild card to nine games over the surprising Rays. Tampa Bay has 16 games left.The A’s remained 1½ games behind the New York Yankees for the first wild card. The Yankees beat Toronto 11-0.“We’re competing for a spot. Every game is precious,” Davis said.Davis’ drive to center off Jaime Schultz (2-1) was his 40th this season as a designated hitter. He joins David Ortiz has the only DHs to have 40 or more homers.Davis set an Oakland record with his 16th homer in the seventh inning or later.The A’s had just three hits against nine Tampa Bay pitchers.“Today stunk just in the fact that we had an opportunity and we didn’t capitalize,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “It’s tough to pull negatives from what this group has done and how they performed tonight.”Blake Treinen (7-2) went two scoreless innings for the win.Matt Chapman doubled for the first A’s hit with one out in the fourth and scored on Matt Olson’s single.Tampa Bay tied it later in the fourth when Tommy Pham extended his hitting streak to 17 games with a pop-fly double into shallow center field and crossed the plate on Joey Wendle’s base hit.“They didn’t give us much,” Rays third baseman Matt Duffy said. “A close, hard-fought game.”Oakland reliever Shawn Kelley worked out of a second-and-third Mickey Mantle Jersey , no-out jam in the sixth.“That was a Houdini inning,” Melvin said.Athletics starter Edwin Jackson allowed one run and four hits in five innings.Reliever Diego Castillo opened the game for the Rays and struck out four over two perfect innings.Sergio Romo retired all three batters in the ninth in his second appearance for the Rays since Aug. 25. He recorded a two-out save on Sept. 4 at Toronto.The Athletics are 12-5 in extra innings.“It’s fun baseball that we’re playing right now and every day it’s a different person coming through in clutch situations,” Jackson said.MAKING A CASE FOR CYThe Rays have put out a handbill supporting Blake Snell’s AL Cy Young Award bid titled “Attack of the Cy Zilla!” It includes a quote from Boston manager Alex Cora saying Snell has “been great against everybody.” Red Sox lefty Chris Sale is also a contender. Snell, whose nickname is Snellzilla, leads the majors with 19 wins.TOUGH LOSSESTampa Bay is 25-29 in one-run games. … It was the Rays’ 14th loss when allowing two runs or fewer, which is most in the majors.NUMBERSChapman has 23 doubles and 38 extra-base hits since the All-Star break. … Oakland C Jonathan Lucrory threw out two runners on stolen base attempts. … Athletics RF Stephen Piscotty had his 14-game hitting streak end after going 0 for 4.TRAINER’S ROOMAthletics: RHP Trevor Cahill (upper back) will miss his next scheduled start. “He had a trigger-point injection,” Melvin said. “Hopefully that alleviates it.”Rays: Duffy (lower back) started after being out of the lineup the previous three games. “I don’t think the pain is completely out of there but he wants to be in there http://www.yankeesfanproshop.com/authentic-giancarlo-stanton-jersey ,” Cash said.UP NEXTTampa Bay and Oakland, two of the primary teams using relievers as openers to start games, will employ the strategy against each other for the first time Saturday night. “It’s just trying to take advantage of what you have,” Melvin said. Tampa Bay will go with RHP Ryne Stanek (2-3), while Oakland counters with RHP Liam Hendriks (0-1). MIAMI (AP) — Mariano Rivera’s first victory for the New York Yankees came on May 28, 1995. A day later, Derek Jeter made his debut with the club.They’ve been linked ever since.Rivera will go into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year as the first person to be chosen unanimously by the voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America Roger Maris Jersey , and Jeter seems very likely to be enshrined at the hall in Cooperstown, New York next year in his first season of eligibility.And Jeter, now the chief executive officer for the Miami Marlins, is thrilled that Rivera is the first to carry 100 percent of the vote.“First, it’s hard to believe that no one has gone in unanimously prior to him,” Jeter said. “But no one deserves it more than him. You’re talking about someone that did his job as well as anyone that played the game. He’s a quality individual. He’s a Hall of Fame person outside of just being a Hall of Fame player.”Both spent their entire big-league career with the Yankees. Rivera pitched for 19 seasons and retired after 2013 with a record 652 career saves; Jeter played for 20 seasons and retired after 2014. They helped the Yankees win five World Series titles from 1996 through 2009.“I had the privilege and pleasure to play with him since I was 18 years old,” Jeter said. “We grew up together. We’re like brothers. I couldn’t be more excited for him.”Jeter http://www.yankeesfanproshop.com/authentic-giancarlo-stanton-jersey , who is overseeing the latest rebuilding effort by the Marlins and spoke Monday while several construction crews were working behind him on various parts of Marlins Park, said he hasn’t given much thought to the likelihood of his own enshrinement in Cooperstown in 2020.“I’ve got a lot of other things to think about,” Jeter said.