Yoenis Cespedes drove in three runs, Chris Carter hit his eighth home run in just his 18th game and Bartolo Colon threw 5.2 shutout innings as the Oakland A's rolled to a 6-1 win over Baltimore at Camden Yards. The win moved Oakland to a major league best 18-3 in July as they can move into first place in the Wild Card standings with a loss by the Los Angeles Angels tonight.Colon was not exactly dominant, but he made enough quality pitches to keep Baltimore from scoring. He scattered seven hits with one walk in his 5.2 innings while striking ...
Not since the days when Barry Zito and Eric Chavez donned the green and gold have the Oakland Athletics been looking to buy at the trade deadline. But after a torrid July that has seen the A’s win 17 of 20 games, Oakland finds itself nine games over .500, currently tied with the Los Angeles Angels for the first wild card spot and only five games back of the AL West leading Texas Rangers. With the deadline on Tuesday, the A’s might be looking to bolster a lineup that—while it has been better of late—continues to be near the bottom ...
Just another boring game for the Oakland A's. Oakland's normally fabulous pitching staff could not hold two leads in Baltimore as the Orioles rallied from five runs down to take a 9-8 lead headed to the ninth.But in the opener of a crucial three-game series, the A's rallied again, scoring six runs off of Baltimore's closer Jim Johnson to rally to a 14-9 victory. Ryan Cook's recent struggles continued as he allowed the tying and go-ahead run to score in the bottom of the eighth inning. But in this crazy game, it did not result in a loss.The A's seemed ...
As of this writing, the A's have not made any major (or even minor) moves to boost what has been a very surprising 2012 team that currently contends for an American League wild-card spot. For a team that many had losing a minimum of 90 games and upwards of 100, being 53-45 as July winds down is a minor miracle.Consider this is being done without ever getting a game from Manny Ramirez, the injury woes of Brandon McCarthy and Yoenis Cespedes, and zero innings pitched thus far from Brett Anderson and Dallas Braden.With the news that Oakland was very much ...
The Oakland Athletics are currently sitting at 53-45, and are 9-2 in their last 11 games. Not too shabby. But how? This team ranks in the basement in hitting. Sure, they have a few young stud pitchers, but how has Oakland managed to come out of the break on fire like this? Let's break down their typical starting lineup and try to find out: 1. Coco Crisp—Crisp, a career journeyman outfielder, has always been as fast as lightning on the bases. But his problem has always been getting on base...if he manages to ...
Toronto's Travis Snyder executed a perfect bunt single and combined with Tom Milone's throwing error, the Blue Jays took a sixth inning lead and never looked back, snapping Oakland's seven-game win streak with a 10-4 win at the Rogers Centre.Milone took the loss, falling to 9-7 on the year as he went seven innings, allowing five earned runs on eight hits while striking out seven. Oakland took an early 3-0 lead and looked like they might be headed for a sweep of Toronto along with their eighth-straight win.Josh Reddick got the scoring started with his 22nd home run, a first-inning ...
Throttling the Toronto Blue Jays 16-0 on Wednesday does not necessarily mean the Oakland A's are legitimate playoff contenders. They've been making that case for the past month. If the season ended today, they would be in the top three in ERA, but second-to-last in batting average.Besides Yoenis Cespedes and Josh Reddick and the numerous walk-off victories, how have the A's stayed in contention?Bob Melvin.Melvin has led the A's to being nine games over .500 and just five games behind the Texas Rangers in the AL West.That's stunning.Bob Geren would be trying to figure out how the A's are winning if he was still ...
The reason the Oakland A's are having such a great time this season is simple. It all comes down to a brilliant moment in the art house film, Weekend at Bernie's II. Kevin Kaduk (h/t Hot Clicks) of Yahoo Sports reports the team that won nine of the last 10 games and is sitting eight games above .500 has quite the inspiration. Casey Pratt of CSN Bay Area delves deeper into the mystery that is "doing the Bernie."
You may have noticed the weird dance that A's players keep doing. It's called the "Bernie." It's a dance that got started when a rapper known ...
Currently, the Oakland Athletics are one of the most exciting teams in Major League Baseball.Since the beginning of June, the A's are an incredible 30-14—despite having the lowest payroll and one of the worst attendance averages in the league.What's even worse for the Oakland faithful is the current home stadium for the club - O.co Coliseum. When the Athletics moved to California the Coliseum was beautiful, complete with gorgeous views of the East Bay's rolling hills and BART subway system. Now, after the late Al Davis finally got his 50-yard line luxury boxes for Raiders NFL games, the Coliseum is a giant, atrocious bowl of concrete. If ...
Yesterday, the reports were running wild that Miami Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez could be traded to the Oakland A's, but today, the reports are that he is officially an L.A. Dodger. Even though the A's were left out of the trade, they are the top beneficiary of the trade between the Marlins and Dodgers.The Marlins are giving up on the 2012 season and slashing their payroll to clear money for next year. Hanley Ramirez has a price tag of about $7 million left this year followed by $15.5 million and $16 million in 2013 and 2014.For the A's, Ramirez would ...