A’s Coverage:
- Game #4: Blinded By the Sun; A’s Lose 7-4...
- Matier & Ross: Tesla, soccer team owner interested in Oakland Coliseum land...
- Eckert-Fong: Small samples to track on the Oakland A’s...
- Hall: Oakland A’s acquire reliever Josh Lucas from Cardinals...
MLB News:
- ESPN: Chance Sisco’s bunt vs. shift in 9th upsets Twins...
- ESPN: Giants fourth team ever to score just two runs in first four games...
- Daily Dish: Angels, Braves swap Carlos Perez for Ryan Schimpf...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- CBS: Meet the rookie reliever who could dethrone Aroldis Chapman as baseball’s hardest thrower...
- NYT: Gabe Kapler Is Unlike Any Manager Phillies Fans Have Known (and Booed)...
- THT: From Sportsmen to Investment Bankers: The Evolution of Baseball’s Owners...
- The Ringer: How the White Sox Are Trying to Perfect Tanking...
- The Athletic (Subscription): The Beck brothers — Tristan and Brendan — took different paths to the Stanford mound this season...
Today in Baseball History:
- 1925 - A’s rookie Mickey Cochrane hits three homers to lead Philadelphia to a 20 - 4 rout over the Browns. His first two clouts come off Milt Gaston, and the third off George Blaeholder. He will hit just another two all year to total six.
- 1930 - Babe Ruth hits three consecutive home runs in the first game of a doubleheader against the A’s, then batting against Jack Quinn in the 9th, Ruth decides to hit right-handed. After two strikes, he switches to lefty but strikes out. This is the first of two career three-homer games for the Babe. Max Bishop draws five walks for the second time in his career (he is the only player to do this twice), and Jimmie Foxx homers to help the A’s to a 15 - 7 victory. Ruth is homerless in the second game, a 4 - 1 Yankee loss, but Bishop has three more walks. Bishop will also walk eight times in a doubleheader in 1934, the only player to collect more than six walks in an afternoon.
Best of Twitter:
- The only blemish to Ohtani’s pitching debut...
Oh, you didn't know? Matt Chapman gets it done at the plate, too.#RootedInOakland pic.twitter.com/FTuh4HOkqr
— Oakland Athletics ⚾️ (@Athletics) April 1, 2018
- After watching Joyce run yesterday, it wouldn’t be shocking if he landed on the DL...
Joyce, visibly nursing a sore ankle, doesn't even attempt to go home from third on a wild pitch. Anyone else would've presumably scored easily.
— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) April 1, 2018
- Seventeen years ago...
17 years ago today, Ichiro made his @MLB debut. pic.twitter.com/3lWmR6NuZN
— Cut4 (@Cut4) April 2, 2018
- Very cool indeed...
.@KPILLAR4 stole second, third and home in the same inning today.
— MLB Stat of the Day (@MLBStatoftheDay) March 31, 2018
Who was the last player to accomplish this feat? pic.twitter.com/N18ETGiJXZ