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I didn't watch the game, but listened to the A's radio broadcast here in the Bay area.  Here is how I see the chain of events.
Came into the 6th inning and easily dispatched with Pennington getting two swing strikes.  Starts the 7th by getting Crisp to hit a lazy flyball that Langerhans turns into a double.  Then battles Barton for an 8 pitch walk.  If you go to gameday classic (thanks OBF) and check-out the at-bat, the ump clearly gave him the rookie treatment against Barton.  Two of the balls were clearly curves thrown in the strike zone and a third was borderline.  Now I do think it becomes a bit flustered, or they pitched around DeJesus, not really sure but he missed the zone on four straight fastballs.
Bases are loaded, maybe the wheels are going to come off, but he then strikes out Josh Willingham on three pitches and gets Matsui to hit a pop up to short right field that wouldn't have scored the runner from third, except that Ichiro can't pick it up in the sun and turns it into a run scoring single.
So to summarize.  Except for the DeJesus at bat, he threw strikes.  The A's swung 12 times, missed 4 times, fouled off 6 balls, and hit two weak flyballs.