Sports | MLB Kotsay's Double Gives Braves Win Over A's By Mike Buss Posted May 16, 2008 11:05 PM CDT Copied Oakland Athletics pitcher Dana Eveland delivers to the Atlanta Braves during the first inning of a Major League Baseball game, Friday, May 16, 2008, at Turner Field in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith) Mark Kotsay knocked in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning with a two-out RBI double, and the Atlanta Braves edged the Oakland Athletics 3-2 Friday night for their eighth straight home victory. The loss was a season-high fourth in a row for the A's, who have dropped six of seven on their current nine-game road trip. Kotsay's double to right-center scored Chipper Jones, who had singled off Alan Embree to open the inning. Embree (1-2) retired Mark Teixeira and Jeff Francoeur to start the inning, before giving up a single to Brian McCann, who went 3-for-4, that sent Jones to third and brought up Kotsay. Manny Acosta (2-1) got the win with two scoreless innings of relief. Read These Next Actor Michael Madsen is dead at 67. Doctor left her Alaskan cruise and never returned. Houses passes 'Big Beautiful Bill' by Trump's deadline. Police shot a bank robber as a drone delivered some Faygo Red Pop. Report an error