Whatever good feelings the Athletics had from winning a series on their last homestand receded into the background with a 4-0 loss to the Miami Marlins Friday night in the first game of a nine-game road trip.

It was Oakland’s 12th straight loss away from home, with the last win coming May 6 in Kansas City.

The A’s were unable to meet any meaningful offensive objective against Edward Cabrera and three relievers, getting just five hits, striking out 15 times and going 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position in falling to 12-47.

“Cabrera shut us down,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay told reporters. “We couldn’t get anything going offensively. We had a couple of chances getting guys to second base and couldn’t advance them.”

The Athletics, although they lost the last game of their homestand to Atlanta Wednesday, won two of three against the Braves at the Coliseum for just their second series win of the season.

Cabrera (4-4), struck out 10 batters in six innings and was followed in order by J.T. Chargois, Andrew Nardi and Tanner Scott, with each putting up a zero and combining for five more strikeouts. Miami improved to 30-28.

A’s opener Shintaro Fujinami, after getting pop-ups against his first two hitters, surrendered a single to Bryan De La Cruz and then a two-run home run to Jesus Sanchez (his fourth) in falling to 2-6.

The A’s bright spot was a second consecutive strong outing by left-hander Hogan Harris, who gave up two earned runs in five innings with no walks and five strikeouts in pitching the second through the sixth innings. Harris, in the same role as his previous game against Houston, gave up one hit and no runs with one walk and five strikeouts.

Like Fujinami, Hogan gave up his two runs after two were out in the inning. Miami reached Harris in the sixth for run-scoring singles by Jorge Soler and De La Cruz.

“With Fuji, that pitch to De La Cruz, he stuck the bat out there and it ends up being a line drive. I thought he beat Sanchez with a fastball but he took a good swing and we’re down 2-0 out of the game.”

Harris, who has pitched after an opener in each of his last two games, may have merited a start. Both Harris and Kotsay were pleased in that the A’s pitchers didn’t give up a walk for the first time this season.

“I thought Harris did a nice job with his work,” Kotsay said. “The biggest thing for the pitching staff is we didn’t give up any walks tonight, which is an improvement.”

With just one walk in 10 innings in his last two games, Harris is a different pitcher than the one who walked five hitters in 1/3 of an inning in his major league debut against the Yankees on April 14. After that game, Harris was sent back to Triple-A Las Vegas before being recalled on May 27.

“Definitely that’s the biggest part for me,” Harris told reporters. “If you look at my numbers earlier in the season, everyone knows walks were a big issue, but luckily I think I’ve found my stride with that and found a rhythm that helps me with that.”

Ruiz gets overly aggressive

Leadoff hitter Esteury Ruiz led off the sixth inning with an infield single and one the play Cabrera threw into foul territory down the right field line. But instead of stopping at second base, Ruiz circled the back and took off for third.

He was thrown out on nice defensive play from Sanchez to Jean Segura. Down by four runs, Ruiz committed the baseball sin of making the first out at third base.

“He felt he could beat the ball to third base,” Kotsay said. “It was a perfect throw that was right on line, the tag was perfect and he ended up running into an out there. We talk about being aggressive and unfortunately we ran into an out there.”

Notable

• The nine-game road trip, which includes three games in Pittsburgh and three in Milwaukee after finishing the Miami series, is the A’s longest of the season.

• It was the seventh shutout loss of the season for Oakland.

• The road losing streak of 12 ties a 12-game streak that took part over the end of the 1995 season and the beginning of the 1996 season. The only two that were longer was a 13-game road losing streak in 1979 and 15 in 1986.