Talk about a good walk spoiled. Brian Fuentes gave up a two out, three-run home run to former Oakland slugger Josh Willingham and the A's lost their seventh straight game, 3-2 in Minnesota. Fuentes took the loss, giving up all three runs on two hits and a walk. The blown save negated a solid start by Jarrod Parker, who went six shutout innings and was staked to a 1-0 lead when Colin Cowgill singled in the first run of the game in the seventh inning. Coco Crisp, who has been mired in an awful hitting slump, went 2-for-2 with a walk ...
Josh Willingham hit 29 home runs for the Oakland A's in 2011. Tuesday night he hit a walk-off home run for the Minnesota Twins that defeated the A's.It was a pitchers duel for most of the night but in the seventh inning, the Oakland A's looked like they might pull off the victory after they broke through for a run and followed it up in the eighth inning with another run.The Twins were shut out for eight innings and broke out in the ninth to defeat the A's 3-2.Brian Fuentes came in to close the game for Oakland and allowed ...
Everybody has been waiting four months for this day to arrive: The date that Manny Ramirez is eligible to rejoin a major league ballclub.Last December, Ramirez hinted that he was interested in un-retiring from baseball, following a seven-month absence in light of his positive drug test result during May of 2011, while he was playing for the Tampa Bay Rays.This past February, Ramirez agreed to a minor league deal with the Oakland Athletics, allowing the beleaguered slugger to attempt to add to his 555 career home runs, pending his service of a 50-game suspension to start the 2012 season. Fifty ...
Even though Manny Ramirez's 50-game suspension will be over soon, he will not immediately join the Oakland Athletics. He will stay at Triple-A Sacramento until the Athletics are ready to call him up.Ramirez is a pretty polarizing figure but his return to the major leagues will not only be good for the Athletics, it will also be good for baseball.Once Ramirez is promoted to the majors, there will be a lot of fanfare surrounding his first game in the majors since April 2011. It will be interesting to see how he performs after being out of the majors for such ...
With a move looming and little support from commissioner Bud Selig regarding San Jose, it's time the Oakland Athletics forget about the Bay Area and look at Sacramento as a destination. It's no secret—the A's want to move to San Jose. There's just one major problem standing in their way: the San Francisco Giants. Currently the Giants own territorial rights to San Jose—a large portion of the Bay Area—located just under 50 miles away. On May 25, Ken Rosenthal wrote that Commissioner Selig will sit down with both parties once more to push a solution. Rosenthal also noted that "the Athletics ...
The Oakland A's continue to count down the days until Yoenis Cespedes returns to the big leagues. The A's are 7-13 since Cespedes went on the DL May 7 and have lost their last six games.He played his first rehab game with Triple-A Sacramento on Monday and finished the game 1-for-3 with a single and a strikeout. It is a good sign that he had a base hit in his first game, despite the fact that he struck out.If anything, the strikeout might be a glimpse that he is on the right track considering he was averaging more than a ...
It was only a week ago when the Oakland A's found themselves in the thick of the AL Wild Card chase. Since then they have gone on to lose six in a row, seeing their GB rise to five in the wild-card standings.Not only that, but they have slipped to third in the AL West, now finding themselves behind Los Angeles as well as Texas. Luckily for the A's, it's only May, and there's plenty of time to turn things around. They are also expecting several big-name players to return soon as well, which should help out immensely once the ...
A very solid start spoiled. A relative offensive explosion ruined. And a golden opportunity to break through in the ninth wasted. The recipe for a loss mixed together in Minnesota and the Oakland A's dropped their sixth straight game 5-4 to the Twins. Ryan Cook allowed his first runs of the year in the eighth inning, taking the loss. Despite home runs by Josh Reddick (his 14th) and Kila Ka'aihue, it was the the A's inability to score with runners on that doomed them again. Down a run in the ninth, the A's got a gift from the Twins when second ...
Manny Ramirez's much anticipated A's debut is just days away, with his suspension expiring on May 30.With Oakland fans eagerly awaiting to see what the soon-to-be 40-year-old Ramirez is capable of after almost a year-and-a-half layoff, there are a few things to be wary of as Manny attempts his comeback.Let's take a minute to examine the pros and cons of Manny's return to baseball with the A's.Begin Slideshow
About a month ago, the idea of Brandon Inge being an offensive force would be a punchline to some twisted joke. The 12th-year third baseman was released on April 26th after posting a .100 batting average with the Detroit Tigers. Three days later, the Athletics picked up Inge, who was expected to provide consistent defense on the left side of its porous infield and more than contribute with his bat. Surprisingly, it was Oakland's pathetic offense that was Inge-cted with some life by the 35-year-old veteran. In his first 11 games with Oakland, Inge knocked in a staggering 17 runs ...