Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Jesse Hahn walks to the dugout after being pulled from the baseball game during the third inning against the Houston Astros Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

By Jerry Feitelberg

The A’s had five homers on Wednesday but fell short of a victory 11-8 and Khris Davis is heating up again for Oakland he hit two home runs he’s a very streaky hitter and he’s got 21 homers for the season and he put the A’s ahead 5-4 and that was the only time Oakland had a lead. Unfortunately that would have been enough in most games to win. The A’s had eight runs on five solo homers to go along with Davis’ other home runs.

The relief pitching and Jesse Hahn just didn’t have it on Wednesday night. Hahn was pounded last week on Thursday with ten runs in two innings. Wednesday night he went two plus innings and gave up six runs to nine hits and Josh Smith came in and the Astros pounced on him and he gave up four more runs.

Jerry does the A’s podcasts each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com