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Tejeda aims to remain perfect against A's

Apr 22, 2007 - 2:44 PM Oakland (9-8) at Texas (7-10) ,3:05 pm EDT

ARLINGTON, Texas (Ticker) -- Robinson Tejeda has been dominant against the Oakland Athletics and looks to remain so on Sunday.

Tejeda takes the hill for the Texas Rangers in the finale of a weekend series against the Athletics.

Tejeda (2-1, 3.32 ERA) was brilliant in his last outing, yielding just one run and three hits in Texas' 8-1 triumph over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday.

"He executed his pitches and used his offspeed stuff well," Rangers pitching coach Mark Connor said. "I liked the way he pitched well without the great fastball. It's not always going to be there. It comes back to locating pitches."

In two starts against the A's, the Dominican righthander is 2-0 with a eye-popping 0.00 ERA through 12 1/3 innings.

Matt Kata belted a three-run homer during a four-run eighth as Texas posted a 7-0 win over Oakland, which had its four-game winning streak snapped Saturday.

Chad Gaudin (1-0, 1.96) goes in search of his second straight win for the Athletics. The righthander was also stellar in his last start, allowing one run in 7 2/3 frames for a 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Athletics manager Bob Geren is expecting to insert Mike Piazza back in the lineup after going having just one hit over his last 22 at-bats. The Former All-Star sat out Saturday's loss.