Elephant Rumblings: Matty, Mateo, and the Lake Monsters

Prospect Watch:

• Another banner day for Jorge Mateo...
• Rockhounds, Lake Monsters clinch playoff spots...
• Speaking of the Lake Monsters, Parker Dunshee has been unstoppable...
• The ten biggest breakout prospects of 2017...

ICYMI:

• Despite Matt Olson’s brilliance, the A’s fell in extras to the Angels...
• Boog Powell working hard to break out of slump...
• Injured A’s starter in position to earn 2018 rotation spot...
• The A’s rate ‘comfortably numb’ on BP’s latest Panic Index...
• A viewer’s guide to what is shaping up to be a wild final month...
• Giancarlo slugs his 53rd, dents TV camera...
• Didi Gregorius becomes first Yankees shortstop to hit 20 homeruns in consecutive seasons...
• The Giants allowed a walk-off walk yesterday afternoon; Pablo Sandoval has reached a new low too...
• Six days in September; the 1967 AL pennant race...
• The Dodgers promote Walker Buehler...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1918 - The Star Spangled Banner is played for what is believed to be the first time during the seventh inning of a World Series game. The custom of playing it before a game will not begin until World War II.
• 1979 - Oakland pitcher Matt Keough beats the Brewers, earning the victory after fourteen straight losses.
• 1998 - Mark McGwire becomes only the third player ever to hit sixty homeruns...

Best of Twitter:

• Matt Olson homered twice yesterday...

• Not to be outdone, J.D. Martinez hit four bombs...

• How a position player winds up pitching in September is beyond me. In any event, newly-acquired Leonys Martin got the ball for the Cubbies...

• What a slide!

• And finally, check out this wild trick shot the Louisville baseball team pulled off...