OAKLAND, Calif. -- R.A. Dickey thought it was a safe pitch to a major league rookie. It turned out to be one of his few mistakes.Dickey gave up three home runs, though two of them were solo, and the Toronto Blue Jays lost 5-4 to the Oakland Athletics on Saturday.If you got the ball up in the air today it was going to go, Dickey said. Thats the first slow knuckleball Ive thrown in four years that got hit out for a home run. I thought it would be a safe pitch. I was trying to find the speed it was moving most and today it was the harder one.Dickey (7-10), who had won three of his previous four starts, said he felt good all day. The three-run shot by Ryon Healy, his first major league hit, stood out.If I can subtract that homer, we win the game, Dickey said. The ball was only out by 4 or 5 feet. Im not sure he got all of it and, in retrospect, theres not a lot of history on the guy. I stuck with the harder one after that and got better results.Dickey allowed five runs on five hits in his six innings. He walked three and struck out four.Its a home run park during the day and thats what got us today, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. There wasnt a lot of break early on but he found his groove. He was giving up fly balls and that can be your enemy.Josh Thole, who had two hits and drove in a pair of runs, ended a 77 at-bat streak without an extra base hit with a two-run double in the second. Four of his five RBI have come in his last two games.Im tweaking things and Im feeling comfortable, Thole said. Ill ride it as long as I can.Khris Davis hit two home runs and Sonny Gray snapped a 12-game winless drought for the As.Davis was 2 for 4 in his ninth career multi-homer game, three of which came this season. The As have homered six times in two games, three of them by Davis.The Blue Jays, whod won eight of nine games going into the All-Star break, lost to Oakland for a second straight day to start the second half.Gray (4-8) ended a career-worst seven game skid. He was 0-7 with a 6.16 ERA over his previous 12 starts. He allowed three runs on six hits and four walks in six innings.Edwin Encarnacion hit his 24th homer leading off the top of the third for Toronto. Justin Smoak hit a solo homer, his 10th, off Ryan Madson, who pitched the ninth for his 19th save.CHALLENGING TIMESA day after a replay ruling on a play at the plate figured prominently in an As 8-7 win, home plate was the center of two more challenges -- on the same play. After Gibbons challenge overturned an As scoring play in the bottom of the seventh inning, As manager Bob Melvin challenged the reversal, contending that catcher Thole blocked Marcus Semiens path to the plate. Replay officials rejected Melvins argument. On Friday, Josh Reddick scored the tiebreaking run on a play at the plate that was overturned on a challenge.UP NEXTBlue Jays: LHP J.A. Happ is 6-0 with a 2.73 ERA over his last six starts. The Blue Jays are averaging 10.1 runs over that stretch. Happ (12-3, 3.36 ERA) has already tied his career high for wins in a season and opens the second half on pace to win 20 games.Athletics: In his last seven starts, LHP Rich Hill is 6-0 with a 2.05 ERA with no home runs allowed. He is 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA in two starts since coming off the disabled list (left groin strain) on July 1. He is 1-1 with a 4.76 ERA in 10 career appearances against Toronto. Fake Yeezys Store . Luis Suarezs double powered Liverpool to a 4-0 victory over Fulham, and Southampton easily overcame Hull 4-1 to continue the south coast clubs impressive start to the season. Liverpool and Southampton sent Chelsea down to fourth place as the west London club was held to 2-2 at home. 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Adelaide trainer Gordon Richards has no qualms about extending Benz to the distance of the Sandown Guineas.At Sandown on Saturday Benz will be attempting 1600 metres for the first time.Richards has always thought highly of Benzs ability and was planning a Caulfield Guineas assault until the gelding had a minor setback.Benz is yet to race beyond 1400m, a trip he ran fifth over at Flemington last Saturday after jumping from barrier 16.Theres never been any need to put him over a mile as he was winning over the 1000 and 1200 metres without any problem, Richards said.When he ran such a good race last week over 1400 and while we were in Melbourne we thought we could stay over and put him in this race.Ive never had any doubt about him running it (1600m) but having said that if he gets any daylight he tends to get going a bit.Ricchards said Benz was keen in his last-start fifth behind Souchez after drawing wide.ddddddddddddHowever the trainer took heart from his previous outing when fifth in the Listed Durbridge Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville on October 15.He said the gelding was slow into stride and raced towards the tail, but importantly settled well.Richards doesnt see the Sandown Guineas as being an overly strong race.Mortons Fork and Jennifer Lynn are possibly the two strongest horses but the rest look pretty even, he said.My horse, hes a trier, and if he puts in again hell be around the mark.Benz sits on the third line of betting at $7.50 with Mortons Fork a dominant $2.05 favourite ahead of Jennifer Lynn at $4. 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