Elephant Rumblings: Baseball World Mourns Loss of Piscotty’s Mom, Chapman Breaks Down His Hitting Woes

A’s Coverage:

• Game #35: A’s Lose 16-2 to ‘Slumping’ ‘Stros...
• Lee: Baseball world mourns loss of Piscotty’s mother...
• Schad: Yu Darvish, Jon Lester donate $10,000 to ALS research in honor of Stephen Piscotty’s mom...
• Slusser: A’s Matt Chapman breaks down his recent hitting woes...
• Torres: The A’s offense has been one of the best in baseball (so far)...
• Oakland Athletics Minor League Notebook: Lazarito debuts with Beloit...

MLB News:

• ESPN: George Springer 6-for-6 to tie Astros mark in 16-2 rout of A’s...
• Doolittle: Javier Baez homers in 3rd straight game, exits with groin injury...
• Perry: Was A.J. Pollock guilty of a baseball ‘flop’ in crucial obstruction play? Justin Verlander thinks so...
• Owens: White Sox pitcher Danny Farquhar home from hospital, expected to pitch again after brain hemorrhage...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Ring: Nick Markakis Is Somehow the Best He’s Ever Been...
• Edwards: Molina’s Injury More Painful for Him Than Cardinals...
• Baumann: He’s not even two full seasons into his major league career, and the New York Yankee is already one of the best offensive catchers in the history of baseball. But can he, you know, catch?
• Baer: Finding the next members of the 3,000-hit club...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1968 - Oakland’s Catfish Hunter pitches a perfect game against the Twins, winning 4 - 0. The 22-year old righthander hurls the first American League regular-season perfecto in 46 years. He strikes out 11, including Harmon Killebrew three times, and drives in three of the A’s four runs, the other coming on a two-out, bases-loaded walk to 1B Danny Cater in the 8th inning. Only 6,298 fans are in attendance.
• 2000 - The Angels defeat the A’s, 9 - 8, despite home runs by brothers Jason and Jeremy Giambi for Oakland. Vladimir and Wilton Guerrero of the Montreal Expos were the last pair of brothers to homer in the same game.

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