Elephant Rumblings: A’s bash Orioles in 16-2 rout

A’s Coverage:

• Slusser: A’s belt six homers, thump Orioles 16-2 to move two games over .500...
• Gallegos: Beau Taylor hits 1st MLB jack as A’s rout Baltimore...
• Slusser: Minor knee surgery for A’s Nick Hundley; backup Beau Taylor thriving...
• Slusser: A’s Lou Trivino works on mechanics, is he overthinking things?
• Simon: Mark Canha’s 2019 is No Laughing Matter...

Best of AN:

• Schmidt: Game #75 — An Embarrassment of Dingers...
• invisibleinkwell: Introducing — Baseball Trade Values website!

MLB News:

• Kepner: M.L.B. and Players’ Union Set to Begin Early Labor Talks...
• Fegan: ‘I would never want to see it again’ — With their players’ support, White Sox will extend safety netting... ($)
• DiComo: Mets to shut down outfielder Brandon Nimmo (neck) for at least a month...
• Rome: Second baseman Jose Altuve to rejoin Astros on Wednesday...
• Mitchell: Blue Jays place righty Edwin Jackson on IL with lower back injury...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Clemens: The Sinker Paradox...
• Rosenthal: If history means anything, contending teams should be lining up to acquire Madison Bumgarner – now... ($)
• Sarris: Can you play baseball with your eyes closed? A look into muscle memory and the magic of synergies... ($)
• Buchanan: ‘It was not my greatest moment’ — A few Diamondbacks share memorable ejection stories... ($)
• Baumann: The Headline-Making Padres Aren’t Contending. That Doesn’t Mean Their Plan Has Failed...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1972 — The United States Supreme Court rules against former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood, who had sued Major League Baseball over the reserve clause after being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. The ruling upholds baseball’s antitrust exemption, which was originally granted in 1922.
• 2015 — Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees joins the 3,000 hit club with a 1st-inning homer off Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers. He becomes the 29th member of the club, and the third to do so with a long ball, after Wade Boggs and his former teammate Derek Jeter, who had been the last player to collect the milestone hit in 2011.

Best of Twitter:

• The newest market inefficiencies?

• One of many intriguing relievers in Oakland’s system...

• For once, the MLB and the MLBPA can agree on something — this was a very, very bad tweet by the Umpires Association...