Elephant Rumblings: A’s tally 9,000th win in franchise history

A’s Coverage:

• Slusser: On 10-homer night at Coliseum, A’s beat Astros 7-6...
• Gallegos: Bash, brother — Record HR show in Oakland...
• Slusser: A’s keeping eye on Las Vegas rotation this week with roster hopefuls in action...
• Ostler: A’s third baseman Matt Chapman’s playground provides room for greatness — and risk...
• Gallegos: Profar a proud brother watching Little League...

Best of AN:

• Schmidt: Game #122 — The Matts Take Off Against The Astros...
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MLB News:

• Wilson: Lefty Mike Minor still open to extension with Rangers after deadline drama, and the sides have talked...
• Shaikin: Angels have a third option in their stadium search...
• Foley: Yankees sign veteran righty David Hernandez to MiLB deal...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Zuo: Under Pressure — The Psychology of Clutch...
• Connolly: Another door opens — How the biggest draft bust in Orioles history reinvented himself as a door installer... ($)
• Simon: Infield shifts are up this season, and pitchers can see the value in Shift Runs Saved... ($)
• Jaffe: The Tigers Might Be Historically Bad...
• Corcoran: Awards Watch — Ranking this season’s AL MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year contenders so far... ($)
• Petriello: Hader has become a feast-or-famine fireman...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1920 — Cleveland SS Ray Chapman, 29, is beaned by a Carl Mays pitch. A righthanded batter who crowds the plate, Chapman freezes and fails to get out of the way of the submarine delivery. He is carried from the field and dies the next day from a fractured skull. Mays, a surly, unpopular pitcher, is the target of fans’ and players’ outrage. Chapman, a Cleveland favorite since breaking in in 1912, had been married the previous year. In October his wife will receive a full World Series share, $3,986.34. The incident has no effect on Mays’s pitching. One week later he will blank Detroit, 10 - 0, and go on to win 26 and lose 11. Joe Sewell will be called up to take Chapman’s place, and for 14 years he will be the hardest man to strike out in the Major Leagues.
• 1948 — Babe Ruth dies of throat cancer at age 53 in New York. He will lie in state at Yankee Stadium and be viewed by more than 100,000 mourners.
• 1976 — With the help of three picked-off Oakland runners at first base, the first such occurrence in the American League since 1910, the Brewers beat Oakland, 4 - 3. Another oddity happens when Oakland’s Billy Williams is called out on strikes after refusing to enter the batter’s box. He is then thrown out of the game.

Best of Twitter:

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