starting the Worcester game until just before his first training

ST. LOUIS -- First Stephen Vogt delivered the lineup card to the umpires. Then he connected for a three-run home run that helped the Oakland Athletics beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4 Sunday.Khris Davis also homered, his 34th, in support of rookie Andrew Triggs first win. Triggs (1-1) allowed three runs on four hits, walked none and struck out eight in six innings.The Athletics have won four of their past five games and before each of the wins, Vogt has handled the duties of taking out the lineup card.Whatever works, said Vogt, who went to the pregame meeting in his catchers gear. Youve got to keep it rolling.Triggs, who was called up from Triple-A Nashville for the eighth time earlier this month, said about 15 family and friends made the trip from his hometown in Nashville to watch the game played with the temperature 92 degrees at first pitch.Once you get through those first couple of innings with that heat, youre maxed out in sweat so theres not much more you can do, Triggs said. A wins a win but its sweeter because I had a pretty big crew here.Hes getting rewarded with a beer shower, Athletics manager Bob Melvin said. To pitch as well as he has and work himself into the rotation, its very rewarding to get him a win.Jaime Garcia (10-10) gave up a three-run homer to Vogt with in the third and a two-run shot to Davis, his 34th, with in the first. Garcia has allowed seven homers in his past three starts after giving up six in his first 13 starts. Both homers against the Athletics came with two out.Weve seen it a few times where he gets some quick outs and something happens and it rolls out of control for a little while, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said.You make mistakes and stuff happens fast, Garcia said. I need to do a better job than that.The Athletics led 5-1 after Vogts homer -- his 11th of the season and first off a left-hander -- but the Cardinals closed to 5-4 in the seventh behind Matt Carpenter, who doubled twice, homered and scored his teams first three runs. His homer in the third extended the Cardinals streak to 17 games with a homer, matching their season best.Oakland went up 7-4 in the eighth when reliever Jonathan Broxton was charged with two runs while getting only one out. Vogt drove in his fourth run on an infield grounder.Ryon Healy doubled in the third to extend his hitting streak to 14 games, the longest active streak in the majors.St. Louis brought the tying run to the plate with one out against Ryan Madson but Randall Grichuk lined out to third and Greg Garcia flied to center for the final out. It was the closers 27th save in 33 chances.The Cardinals, who completed their home stand 2-4, finished interleague play 1-8 at home and 8-12 overall. 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Leroy Houston relished his return to Bath duty after he was the bonus-point try hero in a 37-22 win over Worcester as the home team went top of the Aviva Premiership.The Australian number eight returned to Bath this week on loan from Queensland Reds, arriving in the early hours of Tuesday morning.He did not discover he was starting the Worcester game until just before his first training session on Thursday.It felt like I had never left. I was just happy to be back with the boys, said Houston, who was treated to a welcoming roar from the Bath supporters as he ran out at the Recreation Ground.The support here is unbelievable. Im still on a high because they show me so much love. I didnt expect to score a try at all.Houstons return is a relatively brief one, as he said: Im here for six weeks, just covering for Taulupe Faletau, until he gets back from injury.dddddddddddd Then Im back to Australia with the Reds. Im hoping to get back into contention for the Wallaby autumn tour coming up.Asked if he thought Australia coach Michael Cheika was keeping an eye on him, Houston said: Im not too sure. Hes got heaps to concentrate on at the moment. If hes not, Im not sad about it. But fingers crossed, he is.Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder said of Houston: I knew there was no better way to get him engaged than just go out there and play and enjoy himself. Hes older, experienced and mentally tough. ' ' '