Elephant Rumblings: Oakland A’s lefty Jesus Luzardo shut down with lat strain

A’s Coverage:

• Slusser: A’s lose 4-3 in 12 innings, winning streak ends at 4...
• Gallegos: A’s miss chances before falling to Twins in 12th...
• Slusser: A’s Jesús Luzardo has Grade 2 lat strain; what that might mean...
• Slusser: Blake Treinen back in A’s closer role very soon; fill-in Hendriks honored...

Best of AN:

• Raun-Linde: Game #88 — Messy Defeat by Twins in Twelve...
• Iversen: Oakland A’s activate Blake Treinen, DFA Aaron Brooks...
• Hall: 2019 MLB All-Star Game — Matt Chapman will represent Oakland A’s...

MLB News:

• Healey: Mets infielder Jed Lowrie is ‘not close’ to starting rehab assignment, says Mickey Callaway...
• Rosenthal: Mickey Callaway’s future; a scout remembers Tyler Skaggs; time to change All-Star process?; more notes... ($)
• Sessions: Angels second baseman Tommy La Stella out 8-10 weeks with tibia fracture...
• Wilson: Rangers reliever Matt Bush to undergo Tommy John Surgery...
• Montemurro: Criminal charges dropped against Phillies outfielder Odubel Herrera...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Stark: MVPs and LVPs, Cy Youngs and Cy Yuks — handing out my midseason awards... ($)
• Dodd and Ghiroli: ‘Grieving in a fishbowl’ — Baseball players on the challenges of mourning in the public eye... ($)
• Miller: Mike Trout tracker, June edition — He’s now better than Tony Gwynn and seven more Hall of Famers...
• Szymborski: The 2019 Hitter Projections — Where Did We Go Wrong?
• Wolfe: Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Destroyer of Sliders...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1934 — In a Negro National League game, Satchel Paige pitches a 4 - 0 no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Crawfords against the Homestead Grays in Pittsburgh, with only a walk and an error spoiling a perfect game. He strikes out 17. Josh Gibson is his catcher, the only time in Negro league history in which battery-mates in a no-hitter are both members of the Hall of Fame, something which has never happened in the white majors. Legend claims that Paige then drives to Chicago to shut out the Chicago American Giants, 1 - 0, in 12 innings, giving him two shutouts in two different cities in the same day, but the claim has since been disproved. The no-hitter, however, is documented.
• 2014 — The Athletics pull off a blockbuster trade, acquiring starting pitchers Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel from the Cubs in return for three top prospects, SS Addison Russell, OF Billy McKinney and P Dan Straily.

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