During Sunday afternoon spring-training action, Oakland beat a Milwaukee Brewers split squad 5-2 and Texas also beat Milwaukee, by a 12-5 margin.
Barry Zito, attempting a comeback at age 36 after a year off from baseball, threw four scoreless innings in relief as the Oakland Athletics beat a Brewers split squad.
In his second appearance of the spring, Zito allowed just one hit and retired 11 of the 12 hitters he faced to end the game.
Ryan Braun, who had offseason thumb surgery, went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts for the Brewers. Braun, who missed the previous three games with the flu, is 0 for 10 with four strikeouts in Cactus League play.
Jonathan Lucroy homered for Milwaukee in his second spring training game and caught five innings. Brewers opening-day starter Kyle Lohse allowed two hits in 4 1/3 innings, striking out three.
Billy Burns improved his batting average to .441 with two hits for the A's.
Meanwhile, in Milwaukee's other split squad game on Sunday, Ross Ohlendorf exited after two innings with right groin tightness, Texas' fifth starting pitcher injured in spring training, and the Rangers beat a Milwaukee Brewers split squad by a score of 12-5.
Ohlendorf joins Yu Darvish, Ross Detwiler and Anthony Ranaudo as departing starts prematurely with injuries. Derek Holland has been limited to one inning in a "B" game after experiencing a sore shoulder early in camp.
Ohlendorf, who spent all of last season on the disabled list, allowed one unearned run and one hit, while striking out four before feeling a twinge in his groin on his final pitch. He has nine strikeouts in four innings over his first two starts.
The Rangers sent 10 men to the plate in a seven-run first, highlighted Jake Smolinski's two-run triple. Mitch Moreland added a two-run single in the first and drove in another run with a third-inning single.
Brewers starter Taylor Jungmann retired only one of the eight batters he faced and walked four. Carlos Gomez homered for the Brewers.
