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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Bay Bridge series has brought out the best of the Oakland Athletics and the worst of the San Francisco Giants.Jed Lowrie and Yonder Alonso each hit two-run homers and the As took advantage of sloppy play from the Giants to win their third straight game in the series, 7-1 on Wednesday night.We always have this series marked on the calendar, Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. Theres always a different intensity to it so you can kind of throw things out when these two teams play.Sean Manaea (3-4) came off the disabled list to throw pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings and Billy Burns drove in two runs for the As, who have won six of seven and will go for a sweep in the two-city series against their cross-bay rivals on Thursday night.The Giants committed three errors that led to four unearned runs and botched a few other plays in the field that left starting pitcher Jake Peavy (4-7) fuming on the mound. Peavy allowed seven runs -- three earned -- and five hits in 3 1/3 innings, but could have had a better fate with more support from his fielders.We just have to clean it up, manager Bruce Bochy said. Thats the one thing we were doing very well, is catching the ball. You deal with the streaks where you have trouble scoring runs but the one thing we should be consistent at is catching the ball.The problems started early for the Giants, who have three starters on the disabled list with second baseman Joe Panik (concussion) joining right fielder Hunter Pence and third baseman Matt Duffy there earlier in the day.Marcus Semiens popup in the third inning turned into a three-base error on second baseman Ramiro Pena, who collided with right fielder Mac Williamson on the play. Pena ended up leaving the game with an ankle injury that will sideline him for up to a week.Semien then scored on Billy Burns bunt. After Coco Crisp tripled, Lowrie hit a high fly to right field that Williamson tried to catch at the wall. But the ball hit his glove and fell over the fence for a two-run homer that put Oakland up 3-0.They certainly didnt play a very tight defensive game today and we took advantage of it, Lowrie said.That was part of a rough night for Williamson. He was called for interference when he slid past second base in the second inning, turning a potential rally into an inning-ending double play. Williamson then hit into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the fourth and Manaea cruised from there.Its the best weve seen him, catcher Stephen Vogt said. He was hitting 96, throwing change-ups for strikes, bouncing them. Same with his slider. I thought he was very, very, very good, especially coming back from a DL stint. He stepped up for us big.Things unraveled for the Giants in the bottom half after Alonsos homer made it 5-0. Semien hit a drive to left-center that Angel Pagan dropped at the wall for another three-base error. Burns followed with an RBI hit that Pagan misplayed into a double, leading Peavy to curse on the mound.Coco Crisp followed with an RBI single that made it 7-0 and ended Peavys night.It was certainly a frustrating night just on all fronts, Peavy said. We didnt play our best. Just one of those nights. Not fun to endure.BATTING BUMGARNERBochy said he plans to bat Madison Bumgarner instead of a designated hitter Thursday night at the Oakland Coliseum. It will be the first time a team intentionally used a pitcher to hit instead of a DH since the Chicago White Sox allowed Ken Brett to do it in 1976 -- the Rays were forced to bat pitcher Andy Sonnanstine in 2009 because of a lineup card mix-up.Bumgarner is batting .175 this season with two homers and five RBI in 40 at-bats. 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Indiana University officials conducted two investigations into former football coach Kevin Wilsons treatment of injured players, according to a report from the Indianapolis Star on Saturday.Wilson, who resigned as Hoosiers coach Thursday over what athletic director Fred Glass called philosophical differences, was initially questioned about his treatment of injured players in April 2015, according to the report. In April 2015, Glass hired an outside law firm to conduct the inquiry, and he did so again in the past four to six weeks, sources familiar with the second investigation told ESPN.?According to the Star report Saturday, the initial investigation was prompted by complaints about the IU football programs treatment of former lineman Nick Carovillano, who played for the Hoosiers in 2014. On April 8, 2015, Carovillanos father, Dean, contacted IU associate athletic director Anthony Thompson to make a complaint on his sons behalf. Six days later, according to the Star, IU retained a law firm to investigate the allegations.?Dean Carovillano told ESPN on Saturday that his son suffered a back injury in practice in September 2014. When Nick Carovillano asked an Indiana trainer to examine his back, the trainer asked him if he had numbness in his legs. According to his father, when Carovillano said he didnt, the trainer told him, Then I wont treat your injury. A few days later, according to his father, Indianas trainers told Carovillano that he was suffering from shin splints and needed to stretch better. But when Carovillano returned home to Cincinnati a few weeks later, his parents noticed he could barely climb out of his car.That weekend, a doctor noticed Carovillano struggling to walk across the room at a social gathering. The doctor told him he needed to stop playing sports immediately, according to his father. When Carovillano returned to Bloomington after the weekend at home, he told trainers a doctor advised him to stop playing. He was examined by Indianas trainers and sent to a specialist in Indianapolis. The specialist diagnosed him with having bone fragments and three injured disks in his back.Hed been called every name in the book to keep practicing, Dean Carovillano said. He was a 19-year-old kid. He wanted to please his coaches, not be ridiculed, and wanted to make the team.After rehabbing his back for six months, Carovillano decided to leave Indiana in April 2015. When his parents drove to Bloomington to help him move out, Wilson and other IU coaches requested a meeting with them. They tried to persuade Carovillano to stay through the end of the semester so the teams graduation rate wouldnt decrease, according to his father.My son lost everything, Dean Carovillano said. He lost his scholarship. He has an injured back, and he was an emotional wreck.According to the Star, Glass met with Wilson on April 13, 2015, to discuss the allegations about his mistreatment of injured players. The next day, Glass sent Wilson a memorandum that included a warning: As you know, IU will not tolerate any behavior among you and your staff that penalizes, ostracizes, or criticizes any injured football player. I trust that you and your staff are abiding by this long-standing policy.According to the Star, the law firm Glass hired for the investigation interviewed 20 people and issued a 26-page report on May 1, 2015.An outside investigation has concluded that Nick did not receive inadequate medical care, that there is no evidence that the coaching staff exerted improper influence on the medical staff regarding the student-athletes medical care, Glass wrote in a memo to Wilson, which was obtained by the Star. But Glass also wrote, Even within the unique culture of football, there were behaviors that may create an unhealthy environment for injured players. This last conclusion was based on a variety of findings, including your own admission that you made jokes to injured players or implied that they are not useful members of the team.Some players said that they felt pressure or witnessed coaches pressuring others and indicated that they found it depressing and demoralizing to have coaches make such comments when they were already frustrated with their injuries. It was found that coaches appear to push players to work harder than they should when they have injuries that are unconfirmed by an outside test.Even after conducting the initial review into Wilsons conduct, Glass rewarded him with a raise and a six-year contract extension -- at $2.55 million pper season -- through 2021 after he guided the Hoosiers to their first bowl appearance since 2007.ddddddddddddDuring a news conference in Bloomington, Indiana, on Thursday, Glass said there was no smoking gun, no precipitating event that led to his decision to ask for Wilsons resignation. Glass said he was confident that no players medical issues were compromised under Wilson. Instead, Glass said the two werent on the same page in terms of leadership style.Carovillano, however, wasnt the only former Indiana player to complain about Wilsons treatment of him when injured.In interviews with ESPN this week, several former Hoosiers and/or their parents criticized Wilsons treatment of injured players and the medical care they received while playing for the team:-- Mark Booth, the father of former Indiana wide receiver Dominique Booth, told ESPN that his son suffered a concussion in practice a week before the 2015 season opener. After sitting out a week, Booth was supposed to gradually return to workouts. But after a 20-minute workout one day, Booth was told to run six miles, according to his father. When Booth returned home, he vomited and suffered severe headaches.His symptoms went haywire, Mark Booth said.Dominique Booth, who was ranked No. 225 in the ESPN 300 and the No. 2 prospect in Indiana as a senior at Pike High School in Indianapolis in 2014, received a medical redshirt and didnt play in 2015. The next spring, according to Booths father, Indianas coaches asked him to sign a medical waiver before he returned to the field, even though hed been medically cleared to play. Mark Booth said his son declined to sign the waiver and asked to be released from his scholarship.According to Mark Booth, IU medically disqualified his son to play without his consent. When they met with Wilson and other IU coaches this past spring, they were told Booth wouldnt be released from his scholarship.They held my son hostage, Mark Booth said. Wilson said he couldnt release him because he was one of the best recruits hed signed and it would hurt his recruiting base in Indianapolis.-- Former Indiana cornerback Laray Smith told ESPN that when he had a bump on his back shortly before the 2013 season, IU trainers told him it was only a bruise.Im a freshman, so Im not thinking anything, Booth said. Ill just listen to them. But it continued to hurt. I went to the doctor for a checkup and got an ultrasound. It was a blood clot, and they drained it and said, Youre better now.But after Smith returned to practice, the bump came back and was even bigger. He had surgery to remove the blood clot and returned to play in games a week or two later.I knew it was serious because it was a blood clot, said Smith, who left Indiana in July 2015 and now runs track at Delaware State. Now that Im older I know, but I wasnt thinking that way at 17 or 18. Its like, Youre good, youre going to play as a freshman.-- Former Hoosiers offensive lineman Bernard Taylor, who played under Wilson from 2011 to 14, told ESPN Radios The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Thursday that Wilsons treatment of players was ridiculous, but he didnt offer specifics.Dont get me wrong, hes a great coach and smart on the offensive side of things. But as far as the way he treated those cats, it was ridiculous, Taylor said. If you really want to go on a whole list, a whole tangent, things beyond injuries, its an entire list, and Ill be talking to you all day, man.-- An unnamed former Indiana player, who was a member of the 2011 team, said players worked hard not to be included on the injured list because of the consequences.The trainers would hate to go up and tell him about injured players because Wilson would [curse] them, said the player, who requested anonymity. Then hed go into the training room and tell the players, No, youre going to [expletive] practice, and, of course, the players would go practice.The player said Wilson also ridiculed Indianas players constantly for their poor play.As a human being and a person, he didnt treat people around the program with a lot of respect, the player said. He cursed us up and down, and Im sure that goes on [at] a lot of other places. But when someone is telling you from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day that you couldnt play on Oklahomas practice squad, it wears you down.Staff writers Chantel Jennings and Jared Shanker contributed to this report. ' ' '