Rangers holds off A's, 4-3
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Ron Washington watched his old team make repeated, uncharacteristic mistakes and his current club take advantage each time.

Milton Bradley had three hits with a double and run scored against his former team, and the Texas Rangers capitalized on four errors by the Oakland Athletics in a 4-3 victory Friday night for their first three-game winning streak of the season.

"It's the first one," Washington said of three wins in a row. "What we have to do is go out and continue to play good baseball. It could be more than three."

Michael Young and Brandon Boggs each had sacrifice flies and Ian Kinsler added an RBI groundout to help Vicente Padilla (4-2) win his second straight start.

Texas continues its series at Oakland today.