Oakland Athletics’ Seth Brown walks to the dugout after striking out against the San Francisco Giants during the sixth inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Tue Jul 25, 2023 (AP News photo)

Tuesday, July 25th, 2023

By Troy Ewers

San Francisco, CA – Tuesday’s game in Oracle Park in front of 40,014 fans, both the San Francisco Giants (55-47) and the Oakland A’s (28-75) fans and it’s the yearly battle of the Bay. On the mound the starters were Alex Cobb and Tayler Scott. 

A’s started off the game where Cobb struck out the whole side, but Oakland’s starting pitcher Scott pitched one inning and recorded two K’s and one hit, but that was the end of his night and in the second inning on the mound for Oakland was Ken Waldichuk who kept the Giants at zero until the fifth when a sac fly from Casey Schmitt scored Wilmer Flores who got on from a walk. 1-0 Giants.

During the top of the fifth, the A’s fans in the park stood up and chanted to sell the team so that it could be heard by every fan in the park it felt like. The chants died out once a manager’s challenge debating a play at first.

A major moment for Oakland came when Tony Kemp stopped a potential hit for extra bases with a big catch at the wall. After two outs in the sixth Oakland took out Waldichuk and put in Austin Pruitt, who got them out of the jam.

After seven innings, the A’s kept it close at 1-0. Aledmys Diaz pinch hits for Nick Allen to leadoff the 8th and gets a base hit. JJ Bleday hits a single that scores Diaz and ties it up at one. Bleday has seven RBIs over his last seven games.

Tyler Rogers strikes out Seth Brown, but it was a close call, because Bleday also stole second. Pruitt gets taken out to put Lucas Erceg on the mound in the eighth. Mike Yastrzemski comes into the game to pinch hit for Joc Pederson and hits an RBI double that scores Luis Matos. 2-1 Giants.

The last chance effort for the A’s came in the top of the ninth, but the best closer in the league right now Camillo Doval came in and struck out the side and recorded his 31st save which leads the league at the moment.

The next game between these two is Wednesday and the starting pitchers are Hogan Harris for Oakland and it hasn’t been announced for San Francisco. The A’s are now 6-13 in July and this is the start to a eight game road trip. For Oakland after tonight’s loss, they go 47 games below .500, which is the most in franchise history since 1979 when they finished the season 54-under. 

Starting pitchers for Wednesday night for Oakland Logan Harris (2-4 ERA 6.11) San Francisco has not announced a starter first pitch is slated at 6:45pm PT.