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The Big Picture
Well, after a loss like this, it's tempting to look for easily identified, "personal" narratives: Giambi once again returning to torment the A's, A-Rod and his continued hot streak (or, alternately, Huston Street and his continued dominance of A-Rod), Crosby's continued shaky D, the Geren Blowing...
If You Can’t Score In More Than One Inning, You Aren’t Going To Win A Lot of Games
Well, on the bright side, our craptastic offense did manage to string together enough consecutive hits to put a crooked number on the board early, but refused to score, or basically hit, or really do anything else offense-related after that. It’s easy to point to Duchscherer as the difference in...
Beauty and the Beast
Otherwise known as the A's pitching and the A's offense. Look, I know that we have a bargain bin offense, but the team has basically scored 14 runs in seven games (I'm subtracting the 9-0 whitewashing). That's a paltry two runs a game. And yes, I know they've faced some great pitching so far in...
Base Open, Jay
When your "new-injury" total matches your run total, it can’t be framed as a great day. As Bradley watched and Crosby left, the rest played a game in which 250 pitches were overshadowed by one—a hanging Jay Witasick slider that Vlad Guerrero "sent in the air" to the left-center field rocks. What...
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