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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Andrés Giménez hit his first career grand slam, Josh Naylor’s two-run home run capped a four-run seventh inning and the Cleveland Guardians rallied to beat the Oakland Athletics 9-8 Friday night, snapping a seven-game losing streak.

Naylor’s home run off Domingo Acevedo (0-1) came after the Guardians opened the seventh with three consecutive doubles, including José Ramírez’s two-run hit.

“Things didn’t go our way a lot of the game, but they kept at it, and that’s good,” Guardians manager Terry Francona said. “You don’t want to fall into that rut where something goes wrong and oh no, here we go again.”

Ramírez also homered in his 1,000th career game with Cleveland, which won for the first time since completing a sweep of the Chicago White Sox on April 21.

Sheldon Neuse had three hits and three RBIs for Oakland. Sean Murphy added a three-run homer as the A’s failed to hold leads of 4-1 and 8-5 in a game in which ace Frankie Montas struggled.

Montas allowed five runs in five innings and walked four — matching the total from his first four starts this season.

“Frankie battled himself a little bit tonight,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said. “Didn’t have his best command and went away from his two-seamer. Made a mistake over the middle and they capitalized.”

Trevor Stephan (2-0) pitched two scoreless innings for the win. Emmanuel Clase overcame Kevin Smith’s leadoff double in the ninth and picked up his third save.

Giménez and Myles Straw each had three hits for Cleveland.

“We kind of got knocked down, we took the lead then we got hit in the mouth back,” Stephan said. “For the bats to keep us in there when the pitching struggled a little bit, it was just a good team win.”

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