Oakland Athletics’ Seth Brown, bottom left, slides safely past Houston Astros catcher Martin Maldonado to score on Stephen Vogt’s sacrifice fly during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 17, 2022, in Houston. (AP News photo)

On the Oakland A’s podcast with Barbara:

#1 Barbara what a way to end the first half of the season as the Oakland A’s beat the second best team the Houston Astros in baseball at Minute Maid Field Sunday 4-3.

#2 Stephen Vogt slugged a key single RBI in the top of the eight as the A’s and Astros were tied Vogt’s knock put the A’s on top which proved to be the game winner.

#3 The A’s Ramon Laureano contributed with a home run and his bat has been key going into the All Star break.

#4 The Astros got home run help from Kyle Tucker and Jeremy Peña the Astros in the first half of their season had been getting help from different hitters up and down their line up.

#5 The A’s hope to have a better second half but if hey have a huge fire sale that could bring in more inexperienced players that might further add more loses to their loss column.

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