by Charlie O Mallonee

OAKLAND–The A’s who crushed their guests the Colorado Rockies at the Oakland Coliseum on Monday night 7-1 got knicked and lost by a run 2-1 on Tuesday night. I said last week if the A’s could get one win in Texas maybe two wins at home against Kansas City things would be okay because they would be about .500 that was the thought during that three game stretch.

Never in my wildest imagination they’d go to Texas and the A’s would sweep them. Then I got optimistic I thought wow the A’s could take two out of three from Kansas City, whoops! that was a little optimistic. So the their .500 after that six game stretch, it’s just that they did the sweeping and then they got swept. It’s pretty much the pitching and no offense against Kansas City.

That’s pretty much what you get, right there, right now the Athletics are 35-45. Their still in fifth place ten games behind Houston but if they keep creeping up on Seattle the A’s are just a half game back of Seattle for fourth place and we talked about it before when they hit before that it’s really a tremendous physiological barrier.

If the A’s can just get out of the cellar and leapfrog over Seattle then they realistically can think about “lets get to .500” right now their nine games under .500 that’s not insurmountable if they get to .500 they then could start thinking about other things. Their 6-4 in their last ten games which a lot of teams would take 6-4 in their last ten. They’ve won one in a row starting on Monday night, the A’s have the third best record in the American League since May 23rd.

The A’s have been playing so much better over this stretch and they need to do something to get over the hump and getting out of last place is a big physiological jump that will lead them to better things. One thing they’ve got to be thinking positive about is playing interleague games right now their 4-1 in interleague play this season. They are second best in the majors with that record of course the A’s always as you know have done well in interleague play.

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