Elephant Rumblings: Kaprielian Throwing Again, Jake Smolinski’s Pitching Walk-Out Song

A’s Coverage:

• Game #68: Houston Has No Problems Against the A’s in 13-5 Victory
• Ring: Reggie Bush, Dustin Fowler, and When the Law Goes in a New Direction...
• He: Pinder visits school for special-needs kids...
• Gallegos: How film room helped Matt Chapman get on hot streak at the plate...
• Slusser: A’s to announce Kyler Murray on Friday; he’ll skip senior season at Oklahoma...
• Slusser: James Kaprielian throwing again...

MLB News:

• MLB: Beltre supplants Ichiro atop foreign-born hits list...
• ESPN: Six-time All-Star Kevin Brown holds alleged mail thieves at gunpoint for police...
• Cwik: Trout scared the Mariners into giving him the Barry Bonds treatment...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Rogers: Steve Cishek, Brian Duensing alternate between LF, mound...
• Anderson: The Rockies’ $100 million bullpen has been part of the problem during their recent slide...
• Sullivan: A quick look at Max Muncy’s peers...
• Nightengale: With Donald Trump in his corner, Diamondbacks’ Clay Buchholz back to his old ways...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1966 - The Miami Marlins and St. Petersburg Cardinals play the longest game in organized baseball history up to that point, needing 29 innings for Miami to prevail, 4 - 3. The game ends in the early hours of June 15th, after 6 hours and 59 minutes. It remains the longest game ever played without interruption, and only the longest game in baseball history, begun on April 18, 1981 but completed a number of weeks later, has gone more innings since.
• 1969 - Reggie Jackson of the Oakland Athletics collects 10 RBI with two home runs, a double and two singles against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. In the 8th inning, Jackson drives in three runs with a single when he easily could have made second base. Oakland wins, 21 - 7.

Best of Twitter:

• Phegley pitched in 2016, but still a noteworthy stat, and a great song choice...

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• One of the season’s better brawls to this point...