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A’s Coverage:
- Game #158: A’s Lose 10-8 In 11, Lose Pace in Wild Card Race...
- Edwards: Stephen Piscotty Avoids Walks, Hits Dingers...
- Gallegos: A’s incredible streak comes to an end in loss to Mariners...
- Slusser: For Stephen Piscotty, postseason plans with A’s especially meaningful...
- Martin: Yankees aren’t thinking about the A’s — yet...
MLB News:
- ESPN: Angels’ Shohei Ohtani will have Tommy John at start of offseason...
- Matz: Max Scherzer is 17th pitcher since 1900 to strike out 300 in season...
- ESPN: Matt Harvey keeping options open in free agency, with one exception: His old team...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Schoenfield: How did we wind up with just two superteams instead of seven?
- Anderson: Joe Maddon says he hasn’t read the domestic abuse allegations against Cubs’ Addison Russell...
- Rohrbach: Bob Brenly piles on to recent Joe West bashing, blasts the umpire’s ‘priorities’...
- Brisbee: Defensive indifference is dumb, and teams should feel bad for practicing it...
- Torres: Víctor Martínez ends his career on a high note...
Today in Baseball History:
- 1996 - Oakland C Terry Steinbach hits a 6th-inning home run in a 7 - 5 victory over Seattle, giving the Athletics their 241st home run of the season. They become the second team this season to surpass the mark formerly held by the 1961 Yankees.
Best of Twitter:
- It’s a theory...
Brett Anderson after poor outing: "Maybe I should have partied a little bit harder last night. I did the responsible thing and went home and had a good night sleep and wasn't hungover today. Maybe I should have gone out and I would have had better results."
— Martin Gallegos (@MartinJGallegos) September 26, 2018
- Heading into the playoffs, it’s not the worst thing to no longer have this streak mentioned in every late game situation...
The Mariners, btw, are the only major-league team now undefeated when leading after eight - they're 74-0. The A's are now 77-1 when leading after eight, 68-1 when leading after seven.
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) September 26, 2018
