Oakland A’s Lawrence Butler and American League Player of the Week had himself quite a day at the plate hitting three home runs off the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Ballpark in Philadelphia on Sun Jul 14, 2024 (AP News photo)

On the Oakland A’s podcast with Barbara Mason:

#1 The Oakland Athletics had their way with the Philadelphia Phillies in the rubber game match crushing the Philadelphia pitching 18-3 at Citizen’s Bank Ballpark on Sunday. The A’s Lawrence Butler had himself a day with three home runs.

#2 In addition the A’s Brent Rooker and Seth Brown both had two homers a piece. Butler had six RBIs, Rooker tied his career high with five RBIs.

#3 The A’s came into Sunday’s game with the fourth fewest wins in baseball watching them you couldn’t tell their a last place team in the American League West hitting eight home runs off Phillies pitching.

#4 The A’s kept pouring it on with Zack Gelof who hit a grand slam home run off Phillies catcher Garrett Stubbs who came in to pitch.

#5 It’s the All Star Game on Tuesday and the Oakland A’s representative Mason Miller whose been closing with lots of success and an American League leading 15 saves.

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