Elephant Rumblings: A’s outfielder Ramon Laureano day-to-day with right leg cramp

A’s Coverage:

• Gallegos: Fiers’ shortest career start sets tone for loss...
• Slusser: Astros pummel A’s, Mike Fiers’ winning streak ends at 12... ($)
• Gallegos: A’s call up No. 1 prospect Luzardo...
• Slusser: Top prospect Jesús Luzardo joins A’s, role undefined... ($)
• Slusser: Ramón Laureano still out of A’s lineup with leg issue... ($)
• Lockard: Minor-league notebook - River Cats are the last team standing for the Giants and A’s systems... ($$$)

Best of AN:

• Raun-Linde: Game #144 - A’s Annihilated by Astros...
• Hall: Oakland A’s call up top prospect Jesus Luzardo...
• Moriarty: A’s Farm Report - A’s 2019 Minor League Stat Leaders & Fall Instructional League Roster...
• Iversen: Quick Look - Chris Bassitt strikes out career-high 11...

MLB News:

• Rogers: Cubs shortstop Javier Baez (thumb) unlikely to play again in September...
• Sherman and Kernan: Noah Syndergaard confronts Mets bosses over Wilson Ramos frustration...
• Fletcher: Angels superstar Mike Trout day-today with foot issue...
• Heyman: Cubs call up Oakland native Nico Hoerner...
• Brisbee: TA30 - With the Big Three cementing their status, the wild card contenders are ready to rumble... ($$$)

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Drellich: Dave Dombrowski’s success with the Red Sox masked difficulties behind the scenes... ($$$)
• Kram: Dave Dombrowski Did Everything He Was Supposed to in Boston. The Red Sox Fired Him Anyway...
• Rosenthal: Reasons the Phillies are floundering? Don’t overlook the front office’s ambivalence... ($$$)
• Edwards: Beating FIP...
• Weaver: How a campus-squatting, bubble-bursting, long-jumping comedian became the TV voice of the Rangers... ($$$)

Today in Baseball History:

• 1902 — In a doubleheader with the Orioles, the A’s bring Rube Waddell in for eight innings of relief in the opening win. Rube comes back to pitch another two innings of relief in the nitecap to pick up his second win for the day. It won’t happen again until 1915.
• 1974 — Cardinal outfielder Lou Brock ties and breaks Maury Wills’ single season stolen base record with his 104th and 105th swipes against the Phillies.

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• Let’s just forget last night happened...

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