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ARLINGTON, Texas -- When Bob Melvin went to the mound in the fifth inning, he wasnt going to take Sonny Gray out of the game. The Oakland Athletics manager had a reminder with a pep talk.Youve got to remind him who Sonny Gray is, Melvin said. Sonny Gray is one of the best pitchers in the American League.Gray, an All-Star last season but with a 5.49 ERA before Tuesday night, overcame that one volatile inning and had a season-high eight strikeouts as the As beat the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 6-3.The only hits Gray (5-9) allowed came to five consecutive batters to start the Rangers fifth, including deep opposite-field homers by Joey Gallo and Mitch Moreland. Gray had retired 12 of the first 13 batters before that and struck out the last two batters he faced to finish the sixth.The first four innings and even the sixth inning, thats the pitcher that I want to be and the pitcher that Ive been my whole career, not only in the big leagues, but my whole life, Gray said. I dont know what its been this year. I cant explain just the one inning.Josh Reddick drove in three runs for the As, who won for the fourth time in five games. Reddicks two-run homer in the fourth was one of three homers by the As. Coco Crisp and Marcus Semien also went deep.Gray, who has won all six of his career starts at Texas, struck out all three batters in the first and had five Ks through two innings.In the third, he had a nifty defensive play, bouncing off the mound toward the third-base line to field a high chopper. He made a backhanded catch and then an off-balance throw falling toward the line to get Robinson Chirinos out at first.He pitched great, and he got through a tough spot, which he wasnt able to do against them the one time at home, Melvin said. Hes working through some things in a difficult year for him, and he got through it tonight. He got us through six innings, and he pitched great.Crisp led off the fourth with his eighth homer of the season, and Reddick homered after Jed Lowries single. Semiens 21st homer started the fifth off Nick Martinez (1-3) before Reddick added a run-scoring single for a 5-0 lead.The no-hit bid for Gray ended when Rougned Odor singled on the first pitch of the fifth, though he was easily thrown out trying to stretch a routine single to right into a double.Gallo then homered, a 448-foot opposite-field blast over the As bullpen in left-center. Ryan Rua singled before Moreland also went the opposite way over that bullpen, a 423-foot homer.Martinez gave up five runs and six hits while pitching into the fifth after being recalled to start in place of Kyle Lohse, the 37-year-old right-hander designated for assignment with a 12.54 ERA after losing both of his Texas starts.Three solid innings, two challenging innings, manager Jeff Banister said. We liked what we saw the first three innings.BIG PROSPECTWith Prince Fielder expected to have season-ending neck surgery, the Rangers recalled Gallo to give them a left-hander with potential power. Gallo hit six homers in 36 games last season in his MLB debut, but had just one at-bat this year for the Rangers before Tuesday night.SHORT HOPSThe start of the game was delayed 62 minutes because of rain. ... Gray has allowed 17 homers, matching his career high set last season. The right-hander had been 1-8 with a 6.45 ERA his previous 14 starts. ... Oakland C Stephen Vogt returned after missing three games while on family medical leave.TRAINERS ROOMAthletics: LHP Rich Hill, who hasnt started since July 17 because of a persistent blister, hopes to return Sunday. He threw a bullpen session with tape over the blister Tuesday after playing catch with it uncovered.Rangers: SS Elvis Andrus was out of the lineup for the second time in a nine-day stretch that also included an off day for the team. Banister said Andrus was a little banged up but would play Wednesday.UP NEXTAthletics: Lefty Sean Manaea (3-5, 4.61 ERA) has allowed only two runs in 20 innings his last three starts -- and the As have scored only once while he was pitching in that span.Rangers: Yu Darvish (2-2, 3.12) is winless in his two starts since returning from the disabled list, but the Rangers have scored only two runs total for him in those games. The right-hander struck out 11 in six innings at Kansas City last Friday.Tampa Bay Rays Store . Mickelson barely made the cut but had the best round of the day with nine birdies and an eagle coupled with two bogeys to sit two shots behind leader Craig Lee of Scotland. Lee shot a 69 for a 12-under 204 total. 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Rose tore the meniscus in his right knee at Portland in November and was ruled out for the remainder of the season by the Bulls.Toto Wolff says he would have no problem suspending Lewis Hamilton or Nico Rosberg for a race as a punishment for any future collision.Ahead of this weekends British Grand Prix Mercedes has rewritten its rules of engagement for Hamilton and Rosberg following another collision in Austria, though it opted against implementing team orders. Yesterday Wolff said both men were on a final warning but refused to be drawn on specific details on the greater deterrents which are now in place for the teams drivers.The Mercedes boss has made it clear he has no qualms with forcing either man to miss a race if there is another incident this season.When asked by Sky Sports F1 if he would really sit Hamilton out for a weekend given what the team pays him, he replied: You know if we would leave Lewis at home the system that we created three years ago of letting the drivers race has failed. It is a failure for all of us, it is failure.Its their responsibility because none of us can grab the steering wheel in the cockpit, its their responsibility, and then its a failure of the system, then obviously having two equal drivers in a car racing each other doesnt function. Would we go as far? Yes we would go as far to make sure it doesnt happen in the future anymore, thats 100 per cent clear.However, Wolff hopes the measure is never needed.We have a massive organisation and one of the best brands in the world and again, I hope we never go there but at the end of the day you need to make decisions in order to avoid that in the future and I am in very positive spirit and very optimistic that its not going to be needed.Though the implication is thatt one driver would be banned, Wolff also thinks both men need to start taking responsibility for any coming together.dddddddddddd?I came to the realisation on Sunday night that I didnt want to apportion any blame anymore, because it is never clear cut. Its never 100 per cent fault with one and zero with the other, it can be 51:49 and I had enough of the discussions on the Monday and the Tuesday where within a group of intelligent people, the engineers, we were really trying to come to the best conclusion with who was to blame, and so we stopped all that. Its a joint responsibility between the two of them.Though Mercedes has been praised for allowing its two drivers to race during its current period of dominance Wolff thinks team orders should have been implemented in the closing stages of the Austria race given the fact both cars were damaged.Asked if he wished team orders had been implemented in that race, he said: The answer is yes and I tell you why. We had a situation where both cars were clearly, I wouldnt say damaged; the brakes were not in the state where they could properly race each other. We were coming to a point that only the two of them raced each other and the brakes were near failure, we saw what happened to Perez -- it was a brake failure and he ended up in the wall. We saw Massa retiring the car and in that particular situation we need to stop the racing before we have two cars braking down, so we would probably interfere and say you havent got the car underneath you to race. ' ' '