Elephant Rumblings: A’s Wild Card roster undecided

A’s Coverage:

• Gallegos: Fiers or Manaea - who starts WC Game for A’s?
• Coffey: If the A’s can’t find their bats, the postseason party in Oakland won’t last long... ($$$)
• Slusser: A’s Stephen Piscotty plays in finale; on bubble for wild-card game... ($)
• Slusser: No announcements yet on A’s wild-card starter or roster... ($)
• Gallegos: What’s ahead? A’s postseason FAQ...
• Kawakami: Once again, the A’s have a generational group of players — even comparable to the starry 2001 team... ($$$)
• Slusser: A’s Marcus Semien, MVP candidate, plays in every game... ($)
• Poindexter: A’s week in review - Mission accomplished, even as the offense limps toward the wild-card game... ($$$)
• Gallegos: Top 10 moments of A’s magical 2019 season...
• Coffey: To understand the impact of Félix Hernández, look no further than the A’s Jesús Luzardo... ($$$)
• Jenkins: A’s quite a story, but Houston looms... ($)
• Berman: AL wild-card preview - Can the A’s luck in elimination games turn around? ($$$)
• Coffey: The A’s celebrations, now and decades ago, and the art of handling the sweet (and then sour) smell of success... ($$$)

Best of AN:

• Baker-Gillman: Game #162 - It’s Time For October Baseball...
• Hall: Oakland A’s clinch home-field for Wild Card Game against Rays...
• Nico: Hendriks 3 Days In A Row??? Don’t Be Too Quick To Judge...
• Hall: Matt Chapman reminds us he’s a superstar with two season-saving homers...

MLB News:

• Hummel: Post-Dispatch’s Goold helps save man’s life at Busch Stadium...
• Gonzales: Joe Maddon out as Chicago Cubs manager after 5 seasons....
• Rosenthal: Pirates fire manager Clint Hurdle...
• Feinsand: Future uncertain for Angels manager Brad Ausmus...
• Callis: ‘20 Draft order set - Here’s where each club picks...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Brock: One last night in the King’s Court... ($$$)
• Rowley: Hail to the King...
• Rosenthal: When to move on from a manager? Lessons learned for the Cubs, who waited one year too long... ($$$)
• Hayes and Adler: Dinger diary - How the Bomba Squad beat the Bronx Bombers for MLB’s all-time home run record... ($$$)
• Baumann: The Hidden Treasures of Tropicana Field...
• Klugh: Maybe This Time It’s the Nationals’ Year...

Today in Baseball History:

• 2014 — 2014 - In their first postseason appearance in 29 years, the Royals come out on top of a wild and crazy Wild Card Game, 9 - 8, in 12 innings over the Athletics. Oakland takes early leads of 2 - 0 and 7 - 3, thanks to a pair of homers and 5 RBIs by DH Brandon Moss, but the Royals come back twice, tying the game at 7 with 3 runs in the 8th and one in the bottom of the 9th. In the 12th, Oakland takes another lead when Alberto Callaspo drives in Josh Reddick from third base with a single, but the Royals come back one final time. Eric Hosmer triples off CF Sam Fuld’s glove with one out, then scores the tying run when Christian Colon singles to third base. After a second out, Colon steals second - the Royals’ seventh stolen base of the game, a postseason record - and Salvador Perez singles down the third-base line to drive him in and end the game, sending Kauffman Stadium into a frenzy.

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