Oakland A’s starter Ken Waldichuk who started is seen her delivering to the Houston Astros line up in the bottom of the first inning at Minute Maid in Houston on Sun Sep 18, 2022 (AP News photo)

On the A’s podcast with Barbara:

#1 Houston Astros (96-51) pitcher Framber Valdez was a mystery for Oakland A’s (53-94) hitting going six innings four hits and gave up two earned runs.

#2 Framber also set the Major League record for 25 consecutive quality starts, Framber now 16-5 moved past New York Met Jacob deGrom who held the quality starts record at 24 set in 2018.

#3 The Astros were teeing off on the A’s with five runs in the third and two in the fourth innings and pretty much put it out of reach with Yordan Alvarez hitting three runs and a double, Alvarez also has a nine game hitting streak going.

#4 A’s starter Ken Waldichuk got lit up surrendering five earned runs and five hits in 2.2 innings of work drops his season win-loss record to 0-2 and raised his ERA to 7.13.

#5 Barbara, the A’s have Monday off and get ready to host the visiting Seattle Mariners (80-65) on Tuesday night the M’s will start Luis Castillo (7-5, 2.68) the A’s will send starter JP Sears to the hill (5-2, 3.90) a 6:40 pm PDT at the Oakland Coliseum.

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