Elephant Rumblings: A’s take down Astros; Estrada hits IL

A’s Coverage:

• Gallegos: Montas, A’s derail Astros’ 10-game streak...
• Shea: Frankie Montas, A’s finally solve Astros, win 2-1...
• Gallegos: Estrada (lumbar strain) placed on injured list...
• Matier: Maritime industry warns of harm from proposed Oakland A’s stadium...
• McWilliams: Marco Estrada was bad in loss to Astros, and the A’s can’t afford too many more of those... ($)

Best of AN:

• Doan: Game #21 — A’s Frankie Better than the Astros in 2-1 Victory...
• Hall: Oakland A’s place Marco Estrada on injured list, recall Chris Bassitt...

MLB News:

• AP: Braves righty Arodys Vizcaino has shoulder surgery, out for season...
• Beck: Matt Moore out for the season after Tigers lefty undergoes knee surgery...
• Gelb: Phillies option struggling righty Nick Pivetta...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Weaver: Think you know what it means to “strike out the side?” Don’t be so sure... ($)
• Jaffe: Let’s Get Weird — Extreme Hitter Stats So Far...
• Randhawa: To flip or not to flip? Players weigh in...
• Simon: Checking in on early shift trends — are some teams cutting back in 2019? ($)
• Sarris: How Bryce Harper and Yasiel Puig are pressing, and why it might be OK eventually... ($)

Today in Baseball History:

• 2010 — A pro baseball world record comes to an end. Tomoaki Kanemoto of the Hanshin Tigers, hitting .167, asks to be left out of the lineup, ending a run of 1,492 games in a row playing every single inning. He pinch-hits later in the contest to keep his consecutive game played streak alive.
• 2012 — Bartolo Colon displays a rare mastery of the strike zone in shutting out the Angels, 6 - 0. At one point, Colon throws 38 consecutive strikes, the longest such streak since all pitches were first recorded in 1988. Yoenis Cespedes hits a three-run homer for Oakland, giving him 12 RBI in his first 12 major league games.

Best of Twitter:

• Wait, what?!?

• An interesting thread about the Howard Terminal park and its location on the waterfront...

• The Royals broadcast is stuck in the stone ages...