TORONTO - Tomoyuki Sugano surrendered eight runs over five innings but still picked up his seventh win of the season as the Colorado Rockies routed the Athletics 23-9 on Sunday.
Sugano (7-4) surrendered nine hits and two walks while throwing 55 of his 97 pitches for strikes at Las Vegas Ballpark.
"My performance was not good. I don't want to lower the standard by saying I managed to get through five innings," the veteran right-hander said. "I should have allowed fewer runs."
Expressing his frustration further, Sugano said, "(The win) doesn't make me unhappy, but when people congratulate me or say positive things, it actually irritates me. I could have pitched much better."
In other Major League Baseball action, Kazuma Okamoto delivered a single and a double, marking his first multiple-hit outing in seven games, in the Toronto Blue Jays' 8-3 defeat to the New York Yankees.
Okamoto went 2-for-4 with an RBI at Rogers Centre. "We weren't able to win, so I just want to move on and focus on the next game," the Japanese slugger said.
