Elephant Rumblings: Time to get Wild

A’s Coverage:

• Hall: Sean Manaea will start wild card game for A’s...
• Slusser: How A’s Sean Manaea went from nearly out of rotation to wild-card starter... ($)
• Thompson: Sean Manaea just might be the perfect starter to reverse the A’s wild-card fortunes... ($$$)
• Lombardi: Thanks to Sean Manaea’s resilience in recovery, the A’s are confident leading up to their wild-card showdown... ($$$)
• Schultz: A’s wild-card game vs. Rays expected to sell out - Mount Davis included... ($)
• Gallegos: Raucous Coliseum awaiting Rays, A’s in WCG...
• Shea: Rays have plenty of pitching, former A’s... ($)
• Slusser: Stephen Piscotty left off A’s wild-card roster - ‘It’s definitely disappointing’... ($)
• Gallegos: A’s bring ‘quiet confidence’ to Wild Card Game...
• Shea: Chapman, Olson open up about their rare combination... ($)
• Slusser: A’s reliever Yusmeiro Petit gets better with age — ‘like wine,’ he says... ($)
• Slusser: A’s Matt Olson facing off against former tee-ball teammate Austin Meadows... ($)
• Longenhagen: Postseason Preview - The AL Wild Card Game...
• Matier and Ravani: Oakland’s curveball - City sues county over plans to sell Coliseum site to the A’s... ($)

Best of AN:

• Frijoles: Embrace the anxiety, A’s fans...
• Iversen: Scouting report - Charlie Morton, Oakland A’s Wild Card Game opponent...

MLB News:

• Collier: So WILD! Nats stun Crew, head to NLDS...
• Sheldon: Reds hire Driveline pitching guru Kyle Boddy as coordinator...
• Wittenmyer: David Ross, Mark Loretta, Will Venable among internal candidates for Cubs managerial position...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Dodd: Juan Soto’s moment - After wild comeback, Nationals feel like anything’s possible... ($$$)
• Ehalt: What it’s like to be a starting pitcher in a wild-card game...
• Corcoran: The 2019 Postseason Misery Index - Which playoff team’s fanbase has had it the worst? ($$$)
• Fink: The Patrick Corbin Signing Made the Difference for Washington...
• Kagan: The Challenge of Explaining the Home Run Explosion...
• Posnanski’s Baseball Things: Records upon records and bidding the regular season goodbye with some awards... ($$$)

Today in Baseball History:

• 1908 — Addie Joss of the Cleveland Naps tosses a perfect game against the Chicago White Sox. The future Hall of Famer wins a 1 - 0 decision over Ed Walsh in one of the greatest pitching duels in major league history. Joss strikes out only three batters, while Walsh fans 15.
• 2012 — The Athletics tie the Rangers for the AL West lead with a 3 - 1 win over Texas for their fifth straight victory. Oakland trailed the Rangers by 13 games on June 30th, but now have a chance to win the division outright as the two teams face each other one final time tomorrow.

Best of Twitter:

• You truly can’t predict baseball...

• Morton is doing everything he can to make it hard to root against him...

• They’re beautiful...