Elephant Rumblings: A’s Told To Find New AAA Home, Kyler Murray on Heisman Pace

A’s Coverage:

• Game #150: An Exciting End to a Boring Game, A’s Lose 5-4...
• Fink: What the Athletics need to do to host a playoff game...
• MLB: Athletics instructional league roster, schedule...
• Slusser: Sources: A’s told they won’t be back at Triple-A Nashville...
• SI: Should A’s Turn to Bullpenning for Wild Card Game?
• Johnson: Kyler Murray is on pace with Baker Mayfield’s Heisman season...

MLB News:

• Crasnick: Don Mattingly calls for changes to September roster rules...
• Axisa: Baseball’s next star Cuban prospects are now reportedly eligible to sign with MLB teams...
• Sickels: Yankees promote Justus Sheffield to major league roster...
• Yomtov: Joe Maddon rips Cubs catcher Willson Contreras for failing to hustle...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Townsend: Yasiel Puig is on a home run spree and he’s getting kisses from his hitting coach...
• Ring: Could the Angels Really Give Mike Trout a Lifetime Contract?
• Sawchik: Tommy John Surgeries Are Down In MLB. Will It Last?

Today in Baseball History:

• 1979 - Royals third baseman George Brett collects his 20th triple of the season in a 16-4 romp over the Angels. Brett becomes the sixth player ever, and the first since Willie Mays in 1957, to collect twenty doubles, twenty triples, and twenty home runs in the same season. He will finish with totals of 42, 20, and 23.
• 1984 - Reggie Jackson, at thirty-eight, became the thirteenth player in Major League history to record five-hundred home runs. No. 500 came off Kansas City pitcher Bud Black. His homer came exactly seventeen years after he got his first career hit.

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