Elephant Rumblings: A’s Game Exclusively on Facebook Today, Khrush Ties MLB HR Lead

A’s Coverage:

• Game #126: A’s Play Nearly Flawless Game, Defeat Rangers 6-0...
• Kramer: Rangers-A’s exclusively on Facebook today...
• Lee: Khris Davis hits 38th HR, ties MLB lead...
• Hall: A’s makeshift rotation keeps getting better...
• Kroichick: A’s catcher Jonathan Lucroy makes impact with his arm...
• Ratto: Under the radar, A’s have become toughest collective out in baseball...

MLB News:

• Axisa: Cubs acquire Daniel Murphy in trade waiver deal with Nationals...
• Harvey: Yankees’ Aroldis Chapman set for more tests on ailing left knee...
• Snyder: Yu Darvish’s disastrous first year with Cubs comes to an end due to stress reaction in elbow...
• ESPN: Giants catcher Buster Posey might have season-ending hip surgery...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Crasnick: How Matt Carpenter went from hitting .140 in mid-May to potential MVP...
• Sullivan: The Mariners Still Look Like an All-Time Anomaly...
• AP: Smoltz Calls for Changes in Baseball in the Analytics Era...
• Sawchik: Cleveland Has Taken The Fly-Ball Revolution To The Next Level...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1971 - Oakland book ends solo homers to defeat the Red Sox, 2 - 1. Bert Campaneris leads off the game with a shot and, with two out in the 9th inning, Reggie Jackson ends the game with a homer.
• 1989 - On a 96 mph fastball, A’s Rickey Henderson swings and misses to become Nolan Ryan’s career 5000th strikeout. The “Ryan Express” strikes out 13 and gives up only five hits, but loses the game to Oakland, 2 - 0.
• 2012 - Oakland A’s P Bartolo Colon is suspended for 50 games for testing positive for testosterone, 8 days after Giants OF Melky Cabrera was also suspended for using the same performance-enhancing substance.

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