The Oakland Athletics couldn't take control over the AL West lead, but they'll try to continue their momentum when they host the visiting Toronto Blue Jays Tuesday night at 10:05 p.m.ET.

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Entering this three-game set with a six-game edge over second-place Texas -- their largest division lead since Sept. 27, 2006 -- the A's (63-43) maintained that cushion with Monday's 9-4 victory.

The Rangers rallied to defeat the Los Angeles Angels 4-3 earlier Monday.

"You keep trying to pile up the wins, add them up at the end and see where you're at," said manager Bob Melvin, whose team has matched its best record through 106 games since 1992 and is tied with Tampa Bay for the best record in the AL.

Oakland goes for its longest undefeated stretch since a six-game surge May 24-29 with Straily (6-4, 4.43 ERA) coming off back-to-back losses to the Angels. He had won a career-best five consecutive decisions prior to that.

"I wasn't keeping it down," said Straily, who was charged with five runs in 4 1/3 innings of Thursday's 8-3 defeat. "I still got ahead, then they got to some balls, and obviously I left it too good. Just didn't command it."

That wasn't the case the last time Tuesday's starter Mark Buehrle (6-7, 4.50) took the ball for the Blue Jays (48-57). The veteran left-hander fanned a season-best nine and tossed a two-hitter in Thursday's 4-0 win over Houston that helped Toronto end a season-worst seven-game skid.

It was Buehrle's ninth career shutout, and first since a perfect game against Tampa Bay four seasons ago.

"I had everything working," he told the Blue Jays' official website. "I was making pitches when I had to, movement was good, keeping guys off balance. I'm not going to sit here and say it was one pitch that was making guys strike out a lot. I struck out multiple guys on certain pitches, but it was just one of those games that I had everything going for me."