by Jerry Feitelberg

The A’s Jesse Chavez struggled through much of his outing on Monday night at the Oakland Coliseum getting rip torn by the Baltimore Orioles Chris Davis in the first inning for a three run shot for home run number 27 of the season and Caleb Joseph added insult upon injury with a two run homer in the fourth as the O’s won by seven runs when it was all done 9-2.

For the Orioles it was their eighth win in their last ten games as the same two clubs get together again on Tuesday night for game two of the three game series. The Orioles Tyler Wilson who started the game and who was transitioned from the minors up to the big club several times might have won himself a spot on the roster with his pitching performance against the A’s on Tuesday going 7.2 innings, six hits, two runs both earned, with three strike outs and lowered his ERA to 2.19.

Wilson had great control throughout the contest and had the A’s going down as they continue to suffer with poor offense, “I’m just trying to stay focused on the task at hand. There’s a lot of different variables in this game that are completely out of control. I focus on the things that I can be prepared when the phone rings and I hope it does keep ringing I’ll do whatever it takes to be back up here.” said Wilson.

Chavez looked like Charlie Brown on the mound out there on Monday surrendering the two homers and a line that read 3.2 innings, nine hits and six runs and an ERA of 3.88 and Chavez dropped his record to 5-11. The A’s with the loss are now 47-60 in the cellar of the American League West. Meanwhile the A’s Coco Crisp returned to the line up after 60 days of being on the D.L. and went 2-4 with two hits in his first two plate appearances.

Crisp says he feel comfortable at the plate and is feeling great to be back in the line up, “I haven’t had that many at bats from the end of last year, no at bats really in spring training, so when I came back the first time from elbow surgery I really didn’t have the appropriate time. I wanted to wait and make sure I was myself and I was able to do that” said Crisp.

For Tuesday night’s tilt the Orioles will start Miguel Gonzalez (9-7) Gonzalez dropped his last game in an attempt to win number ten and he’ll be matched up against right hander Chris Bassitt (0-4) Bassitt who has not a victory this season but one last year could pick up his second career win if he can overcome Baltimore on Tuesday night. First pitch at the Coliseum is at 7:05PM.

Jerry Feitelberg is the Oakland A’s beat writer at http://www.sportsradioservice.com