At some point, I guess the A’s were due to be on the wrong end of a blowout. You don’t just lose two-fifths of your starting rotation (Jarrod Parker and A.J. Griffin) and plug in two unproven pitchers (Drew Pomeranz and Jesse Chavez) without having a few hiccups down the road. Monday night, Pomeranz came […]
One hit was all the A’s needed to trump the Rays 3-2 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight victory and 11th win in their last 12 games. That one hit just happened to be a solo home run by Brandon Moss in the fourth inning that gave the A’s a 3-0 lead. Other than that, […]
This was a game that had a lot of weird and wacky involved, from A’s starting pitcher Scott Kazmir being ejected in the second inning to a squirrel running around the playing field in the fourth and a blown home run call in the seventh that brought back not-so-pleasant memories of Angel Hernandez. The final […]
Not much could have gone better for the A’s tonight: they blew out the White Sox 11-0, won their sixth game in a row, and to top it all off, blared the George Michael classic “Careless Whisper” before Josh Reddick’s at-bats. It probably is the first time anyone has used “Careless Whisper” as a walk-up […]
The A’s could only muster up four hits against the Mariners and Scott Kazmir suffered his first loss in an A’s uniform in a 4-2 Seattle victory at O.Co Coliseum Monday night. Kazmir, who allowed two runs in the first innings and single runs in the fifth and sixth, is now 4-1 with a 2.64 […]