Elephant Rumblings: A’s offense quiet in loss to Rays

A’s Coverage:

• Slusser: Travel-weary A’s falter, lose to Rays...
• Klemish: A’s debut a ‘dream come true’ for Anderson...
• Harrigan: Jay Bruce, Marcus Semien earn Player of Week honors...
• Poindexter: A’s week in review — Treading water and back to .500... ($)
• Byrne: The Oakland Ace?
• Tafur: A’s Josh Phegley enjoying a breakout season thanks to playing time (and an insanely catchy walk-up song)... ($)
• Klemish: Chapman leads way for A’s in All-Star voting...

Best of AN:

• Hall: Game #68 — Tanner Anderson strong in debut, but A’s shut down by Rays...
• Moriarty: A’s Farm Report — Getting to Know the A’s 2019 Top 10 Draft Picks...
• Hall: Oakland A’s prospect watch — Sleeper relievers to follow throughout the farm...
• Hall: Oakland A’s recall Tanner Anderson, option Ryan Dull...
• Iversen: Quick Look — What’s up with Lou Trivino?
• Fatrolf’s Monday Sketches: Tanner Anderson Karate Kicks Edition...
• Baker-Gillman: Series #23 — Athletics at Rays: Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Ray...

MLB News:

• Gurnick: Dodgers lefty Tony Cingrani out for season after shoulder surgery...
• Van Schouwen: Top White Sox prospect Dylan Cease “not too far away” from MLB debut...
• MLB.com: Giants land outfielder Alex Dickerson in trade with Padres...
• Keri: The 30 — Bottom-dwellers find gems (or trade fodder), all that and Laureano can hit, and a season of bests for the Twins... ($)

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Petriello: New metric measures best outfielder ‘jumps’...
• Buckley: Let’s remember why David Ortiz is beloved in Boston... ($)
• Jaffe: Chips Off the Ol’ Cooperstown Block...
• Edwards: The Very Surprising Texas Rangers...
• Bowden: How the Marlins won the the 2019 draft, plus a look at the runner-ups... ($)

Today in Baseball History:

• 1927 — The Philadelphia Athletics field a team of seven future Hall of Famers in the 9th inning: Ty Cobb (RF), Mickey Cochrane (PH), Eddie Collins (2B), Jimmie Foxx (1B), Lefty Grove (P), Al Simmons (CF) and Zack Wheat (LF). After 5 wins in a row‚ the A’s lose to the Tigers‚ 5 - 4. Cy Perkins started as catcher batting seventh‚ but when Cochrane pinch-hit for him in the last inning‚ seven Cooperstown-bound players were in the lineup. On May 24th of 1928‚ the A’s will again field 7 HOFers and combine with the Yanks to showcase 13 Hall of Famers.
• 1990 — Nolan Ryan pitches the sixth no-hitter of his career, extending his major league record, as the Texas Rangers beat Oakland, 5 - 0. Ryan was the first to pitch no-hitters in three different decades, to accomplish the feat for three different teams and, at age 43, the oldest to throw one.
• 1995 — Mark McGwire hits three home runs in consecutive at-bats and ties the major league record of five homers in consecutive games, leading the Oakland Athletics over the Boston Red Sox, 8 - 1.

Best of Twitter:

• A former Athletic was ejected after a “brawl” on Monday...

• Welcome to 2019 baseball...

• The A’s have officially signed a large chunk of their draft talent...