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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?!?
Gronk's bat speed is off the charts.
— Cut4 (@Cut4) April 18, 2019
The only problem? He was swinging the Lombardi.pic.twitter.com/eLCz0kf8nT
- An interesting thread about the Howard Terminal park and its location on the waterfront...
A few notes on Howard Terminal. 1) Home runs will not be sailing into the Inner Harbor. If any small water crafts like kayaks congregate, it would be beyond center field, near the fireboat Sea-Wolf. pic.twitter.com/hyUIb6fOUf
— Eastshore Empire (@EastshoreEmpire) April 17, 2019
- The Royals broadcast is stuck in the stone ages...
When I make these breakdowns I pull from both broadcasts and I always love noticing the slight differences in productions and commentary.
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) April 17, 2019
Well in this one, the difference in commentary was far from slight. pic.twitter.com/3O3kunO65a