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Long balls lead A's to rout of Halos

 
Daric Barton, Jack Hannahan and Emil Brown homered for the A's on Monday, and big Frank Thomas fell -- of all things -- a home run short of hitting for the cycle. It all added up to a 14-2 Oakland drubbing in the first meeting of the year between the surprising A's and the host Angels. (link)

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