Elephant Rumblings: Sean Manaea Update, The Gradual Spread of the Opener

A’s Coverage:

• Game #153: A’s annihilate Angels’ pitching staff, win 21-3...
• Sherman: We Cannot Let Kyler Murray Stop Playing Football...
• Killion: A’s red-hot Stephen Piscotty having fun in career-best season...
• Slusser: Will Sean Manaea pitch for A’s next season? Surgery update...
• Paulus: Oakland A’s Fans Love Their Team, But Don’t Trust Its Owners...

MLB News:

• ESPN: Ex-wife of Cubs’ Addison Russell details abuse allegations...
• Harvey: Yankees set major league record for most players with 10 HRs...
• Wilson: The Rangers are reportedly contemplating replacing manager Jeff Banister after the season...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Sullivan: The Gradual Spread of the Opener...
• Rohrbach: Nothing more Boston than this investigation into a missing Red Sox division banner...
• Provenzano: Baseball is back to reining in stolen base attempts...
• Kelly: Extreme contact hitters have had unexpected results...
• Lindbergh: On the Margins: How Pitch-Framing Became More Important—and More Common—Than Ever...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1970 - The A’s Vida Blue no-hits the Twins, 6 - 0, becoming the youngest pitcher to perform the feat since Paul Dean, 36 years ago to the day. The only baserunner against Blue is Harmon Killebrew, who walks in the 4th inning. Bert Campaneris, who helps Blue with a leaping catch on George Mitterwald in the 5th, adds a triple and home run. An Oakland crowd of only 4,284 watches Blue’s 2nd major league start.
• 1992 - Oakland P Dennis Eckersley becomes the second pitcher in history to record 50 saves in a season as he preserves the Athletics’ 6 - 5 win over Chicago. The White Sox’ Bobby Thigpen had 57 saves in 1990.

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