Elephant Rumblings: A’s wrap up first homestand with series win

A’s Coverage:

• Hall: Stephen Piscotty gets hot, Laureano throws out another runner as A’s down Red Sox...
• Shea: A’s beat Red Sox again, huge day for Stephen Piscotty...
• Shea: Red Sox kept running on A’s Ramon Laureano, he kept throwing ’em out...
• Haft: Chapman returns from injury with flourish at 3B...
• Shea: A’s Matt Olson dealing with rare injury rehab - ‘I’m bored, honestly’....

Best of AN:

• baseballgirl: Game #10 - A’s storm back 7-3 to win series behind Piscotty’s big day...
• Nico: Blogfather Takeaways From The First Homestand...
• Iversen: Estimating a Matt Chapman contract extension...

MLB News:

• Biertempfel: Pirates outfielder Corey Dickerson hits IL with shoulder injury...
• Schmuck: For long-struggling Chris Davis, Orioles home opener turns out to be nothing to celebrate...
• Sadler: Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins weighs in on Vlad Jr. contract options...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Rosenthal: In the screwy world of baseball economics, even as the players win (hello, $100 million!), they’re losing... ($)
• McDaniel: We Analyzed the Value of International Signing Bonus Money...
• Leitch: 10 crazy ‘on-pace-for’ stats to watch...
• Jaffe: Trevor Rosenthal Reaches for Infinity...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1934 - Babe Ruth, sponsored by Quaker Oats, agrees to do three 15-minute broadcasts a week over NBC. The total of $39,000 for 13 weeks is $4,000 more than his New York Yankees contract. Of equal weight, WSAL hires Red Barber to broadcast Cincinnati Reds games.
• 1971 - At RFK Stadium, 45,000 fans watch the last Opening Day game to be played in Washington, DC until 2005. Dick Bosman pitches a six-hit shutout as the Washington Senators beat the Oakland Athletics, 8 - 0. After the season, owner Bob Short will move the Senators to Arlington, Texas, where they will play under the name “Texas Rangers” .

Best of Twitter:

• All is right in the world...

• Well, not quite all. Meghan has provided Athletics Nation with a lot of photos from Stockton the last couple years, and we encourage everyone to help if they can.

• This is absolutely incredible and should make for some great pitch-by-pitch analysis...

• The Red Sox should probably print this out for future reference...