PHOENIX (AP) — Coco Crisp homered and the Oakland Athletics beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-2 on Friday.
Josh Willingham, Chris Carter and Andy LaRoche drove in runs off Los Angeles Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley. Crisp had three hits.
Billingsley, who’d allowed one earned run in 6 2-3 previous innings, gave up four in his third spring training start.
He committed a balk and walked four before exiting after 3 1-3 innings Friday.
A’s left-hander Gio Gonzalez pitched 4 1-3 innings in his third spring training start and had a shutout until Aaron Miles hit a solo home run in the fourth, the first earned run given up by Gonzalez this spring.
