Starting Five: Extras, Extras, Read All About It

Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what is ahead.

You Oughta Know ...
That the A's might file for overtime.

Oakland's 15-inning loss at Seattle on Sunday was its fourth game this year of 12 innings or more and second of 14 innings or more. And in those two longest games, the Athletics blew three-run leads to lose.

On April 22 at Yankee Stadium, Oakland was up 3-0 in the second inning, then fell behind 7-5, then tied it in the seventh before losing in the 14th on Melky Cabrera's walkoff homer.

Sunday's defeat was worse.

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The Athletics led the Mariners 3-0 in the fourth, 4-3 in the ninth before Kenji Johjima's tying homer and 7-4 in the 13th, Gio Gonzalez pitched five innings for the A's (the longest relief outing in the majors this year) before Dana Eveland, who worked four innings Friday in a start, came in and and made a throwing error that contributed to his loss.

Of Oakland's 13 losses, four have been walk-offs. The A's are 2-6 in one-run games and 7-7 otherwise.

From the Trainer's Room ...
Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado has not started the past five games because of a sore right hip but has not gone on the disabled list. The team hopes he can play through the injury Monday night in Atlanta.

"Obviously, it's not going to be 100 percent overnight," Delgado said. "You have to listen to your body and deal with the symptoms. But hopefully, we'll try to make it well enough to the point where you don't have to take every other day off."

Numbers Game ...
Rays left fielder Carl Crawford's six stolen bases Sunday against the Red Sox not only tied the post-1900 major-league record but are two more than the entire Braves team has all season.

In Their Own Words ...
"That baby is so loud, you should have OSHA investigate that." – Brewers manager Ken Macha on AC/DC's "Hells Bells," the song to which closer Trevor Hoffman enters and which was cranked louder over the weekend after Hoffman jokingly complained it wasn't loud enough

Advance Scouting ...
The Dodgers try to extend their home record to 11-0, a modern NL record, when they face the Diamondbacks tonight (10:10 PM, ET) at Chavez Ravine. The 2003 Royals were the last team to win their first 11 home games, and the major league record is 12, set by the 1911 Tigers in the last season at Bennett Park before Tiger Stadium opened.