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Oakland's Mark Kotsay hits inside the park homer against Twins

Capitalizing on questionable judgment by a diving Torii Hunter, Oakland's Mark Kotsay hit an inside-the-park home run in the seventh inning of Game 2 of the AL division series against Minnesota on Wednesday.

With the score tied 2-2 and two outs, Kotsay got ahead of lefty reliever Dennys Reyes before roping a line drive toward right-centre.

Five-time Gold Glove winner Hunter dove for the ball, but wasn't even close, and it got past the center fielder and rolled to the wall.

Jason Kendall scored easily from first base on the play and Kotsay, who has been nursing a bad back all season, raced all the way around and slid into home far ahead of Jason Bartlett's relay throw to give the Athletics a 4-2 lead.

It was the second inside-the-park home run in A's playoff history. Ray Durham has the other, also coming at the Metrodome, off Rick Reed on Oct. 4, 2002 of the AL division series.

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