by Charlie O Mallonee

The A’s dropped another tough one behind starter Sonny Gray after winning the first game of this current series in Houston on Tuesday night at Minute Field 6-4. I don’t like to run a round and be Chicken Little but in some ways you have to be right when your talking about the A’s. They went 1-5 on that homestand with Boston and Chicago.

It’s never good to go 1-5 in any six game series but especially not when your at home. The A’s went 1-5 on the last honestand that put them into a situation where they have lost ten of 11. The Athletics have now fallen 13 games under .500, the club owns last place in the American League West. Their 1-13 in one run ball games and it would have been 14 had they lost by one on Tuesday night.

For the A’s that’s a nightmare it’s an absolute nightmare, the A’s are 1-12 in day games, no one has been able to explain that. Why are they losing day games? No one really knows it, they have used 15 different relief pitchers and of those 15 relief pitchers they really haven’t got the job done. With all of this, all the A’s really need to do is to get things right they should play all night games and have at least a two run lead and things will turn around.

Now there’s more doom and gloom in the future for the A’s because their out on the road in Houston and Tampa Bay coming up on Thursday with a seven game road trip. Three games with the Astros who are in first place in the AL West and after they finish with the Astros they have to travel down to Tampa Bay and play in that horrible building Tropicana Field.

They will face a Rays team that is currently tied for first place in the AL East. That’s a last place team’s nightmare while your awake and your still having the nightmare. That’s what the A’s are up against for this road trip. On Monday night you would like to think that was a sign of a turnaround. The A’s were able to do something that haven’t done and that is win.

The A’s won in Houston on the road in that first game and they had starter Drew Pomeranz who came in with a 2-3 record facing Houston’s Lance McCullers who didn’t figure in Tuesday’s decision. McCullers is off to a big start for the Astros he doesn’t have a great record but he has a 1.93 ERA. When your posting that kind of a ERA average your having a big season. Neither starter was overwhelming in that game.

Charlie O has your A’s commentary podcast tonight at http://www.sportsradioservice.com