A's win in 10th on Williams RBI single

It took the A's 10 innings to drum up the offense necessary to put the Colorado Renegades away 4-3 Monday as clouds loomed over Cavalier Field.
    Recent addition Zane Williams hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning that drove in designated hitter Travis Meiners, making up for an overall performance that head coach Phil Stephenson called "very flat."
    "Part of that is that we were coming off a league weekend and we just gave a game away, but you've got to give their pitcher (starter Kyle Oestereicher) a ton of credit because he threw the type of game that a flat team doesn't do well against," Stephenson said.
    Oestereicher pitched the first nine innings of the game for the Renegades and gave up only three runs, never allowing more than one run in an inning.
    The left-hander kept the A's off balance all night, throwing off-speed pitches in counts that don't normally warrant them, and the A's offense never got going like Stephenson would have liked.
    "These are important games for us to start getting on a roll," Stephenson said.
    The walk-off hit came after Renegade reliever Jordan Strade struck out A's third baseman Oscar Sigala with Meiners on third.
    "Phil said he was going to give me one swing early [in the count]," Williams added. "It was a fastball, middle-in. [Oestereicher] kind of left it out there, and I got after it."
    Dodge started the scoring in the first inning, when Oestereicher threw a wild pitch with A's center fielder Cameron Monger on third.
    The Renegades came back with two runs of their own in the top of the third, when A's starter Dillon Griffin ran into some circumstances beyond his control. Williams lost the ball in the dirt as Renegade lead-off man Joe Ray was stealing second, and a Dave Kaplan high chopper over Max Taylor's head scored Ray in the next at-bat.
    The Renegades took a 3-2 lead through most of the game, but the A's tied the game at three in the seventh when shortstop Tyler Robbins singled home Max Taylor. Taylor had reached on a strikeout when Renegades catcher Max Stepaw dropped the final strike.
    Game two of the three-game series is at 7 p.m. today at Cavalier Field. Blake Thomas is the scheduled starter for the A's.