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A’s Coverage:
- Game #36: A’s Bats Stay Quiet, Astros Win 4-2...
- Shea: A’s Stephen Piscotty returns to lineup with heavy heart...
- Walker: Taj Tashombe’s plan to keep A’s in Oakland for long haul is rooted in fan base’s diversity...
- Bernstein: Jed Lowrie is having a historic late-career revival...
- Cut4: 10,000 retweets later, A’s fan Eric Nelson threw a first pitch -- but his story is much bigger than that...
MLB News:
- ESPN: M’s James Paxton first Canadian ever to toss no-hitter in Canada...
- Axisa: Mets ship Matt Harvey to Reds in exchange for Devin Mesoraco...
- Haudricourt: Stephen Vogt suffers career-threatening shoulder injury while on rehab...
- ESPN: Orioles’ Dylan Bundy first in modern MLB history to give up 4 HRs and record no outs...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Sullivan: Mets and Reds Exchange Horror Stories...
- Albert Pujols and Ichiro Suzuki debuted on the same day. BP looks back at other notable debut-dates...
- Rogers: Joe Maddon says blaming slump on lineup switches a ‘non-sophisticated conversation’...
Today in Baseball History:
- 1988 - Oakland beats Detroit, 3 - 1, to extend its club-record winning streak to 14 consecutive games, the longest in the majors since 1977. The A’s will finally lose tomorrow, 8 - 2 to the Tigers, after starting the skein on April 23rd. Oakland leads by eight games in the American League West.
- 2010 - Dallas Braden pitches the 19th perfect game in major league history as the Oakland A’s defeat the Tampa Bay Rays, owners of the best record and best offense in the majors coming into the game, 4 - 0. Braden’s is the second perfect game in franchise history, following that of Catfish Hunter on May 8, 1968; it also comes less than ten months after Mark Buehrle pitched the last perfecto, also against the Rays, on July 23, 2009.
Best of Twitter:
- This was a really touching moment last night. Good on everyone at the park. Piscotty culminated the AB with a base hit, too...
The @Athletics faithful welcome back Stephen Piscotty for his first AB since his mother Gretchen passed away. pic.twitter.com/ZshvrrLgUA
— Cut4 (@Cut4) May 9, 2018
Last inning, Stephen Piscotty's dad, Mike, was shown on scoreboard thanking all for supporting Gretchen and the family. He added, “Thattaboy, Stephen, on that hit."
— John Shea (@JohnSheaHey) May 9, 2018
- Ouch...
Jackie Bradley Jr. literally just found out what the hardest pitch of 2018 feels like... pic.twitter.com/WxnQw224Ge
— Cut4 (@Cut4) May 9, 2018
- A pretty tame clearing of the benches. The high point was Kris Bryant tickling Starlin Castro...
Benches cleared in Marlins-Cubs #TeamDietrich
— Fish Stripes (@fishstripes) May 9, 2018
(jk, wtf is he doing? Chill bro, you're out) pic.twitter.com/H4Sx0QFGyi
Benches clear.
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) May 9, 2018
Gloves are off.@KrisBryant_23 exposes Starlin’s greatest weakness. pic.twitter.com/ojoixOMToP