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A’s Coverage:
- Game #47: A’s Dominate Jays, Win 9-2...
- Hall: Oakland A’s claim pitcher Carlos Ramirez off waivers...
- Slusser: Jed Lowrie’s hit total helps kids in Nicaragua, Colombia...
- A’s Farm Report: Gossett, Murphy & Bolt Top Teams’ Stat Leaders...
- Slusser: More effective Emilio Pagán returns to A’s firing fastballs...
MLB News:
- ESPN: Jordan Hicks throws two pitches clocked at 105 mph on Sunday...
- AP: Indians call up veteran outfielder Melky Cabrera...
- Anderson: Braves release José Bautista after 12 games, potentially marking the end of his career...
- ESPN: Nationals send Ryan Madson to DL with pectoral muscle strain...
- Anderson: With most of a starting lineup on the disabled list, the Nationals are promoting 19-year-old prospect Juan Soto...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Brown: The MLB team that’s blowing up starting pitching as we know it...
- Snyder: Miami-Dade looks to ‘Marlins Man’ for help in lawsuit against Marlins’ previous owners...
- Cut4: Bryce Harper’s glasses make him the newest member of baseball’s fashionable history of specs...
- Lacques: How a video game became baseball’s most addictive pastime, from MLB to Little League...
Today in Baseball History:
- 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.
- 2014 - More evidence that good pitching is sometimes not enough: five Rays pitchers give up only a single hit to the A’s, but Oakland still wins, 3 - 2. The A’s score two runs on two walks and two errors in the 2nd, and Brandon Moss goes deep in the 4th for their lone safety. Erik Bedard is the unlucky loser, against Tommy Milone.
Best of Twitter:
- More trip of death stats...
A’s hit 19 home runs and scored 60 runs in this 10 game trip to NYY, BOS, and TOR. 27 of those runs came in their four-game sweep of the Blue Jays.
— Martin Gallegos (@MartinJGallegos) May 20, 2018
- This reads more alarming than it apparently is...
Mengden’s left shoulder popped in and out of joint on that play he made covering the bag to end the seventh. He’s fine, has had it happen before. Sometimes needs it put back into place but not this time.
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) May 20, 2018
- What a grab...
The @Mets may have just found their 3rd baseman of the future. pic.twitter.com/rkNr8KqykQ
— Cut4 (@Cut4) May 20, 2018
- Read this whole thread; pretty fascinating...
We are nearly a third of the way through the baseball season and a grand experiment with Bullpen Day (TM) is well underway. Sure, the Rays are 1 game under .500, but the bullpen is completely spent. Rays relievers must be on some kind of record pace for use! (1/9)
— DRaysBay (@draysbay) May 21, 2018