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The A’s should retire Campaneris number 19

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Former Oakland A’s shortstop Bert Campaneris is regarded as the best shortstop in Oakland A’s history winner of three consecutive World Series Championships. Campaneris is seen here seated for a 2012 photo (photo from wikipedia)

The A’s Should Retire Campaneris Number 19

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By Amaury Pi-González

OAKLAND–Baseball is a generational sport. People grow-up watching their favorite players, they are engraved in their collective memories forever. It is passed from one generation to the next one.

Many times during The Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame exhibits at Fanfest, All-Star Games, community and other events I have seen fathers telling their kids (as they watch an exhibit) “Billy, this was Minnie Miñoso, my favorite player as a kid”.

Players numbers are retired by teams to honor their past stars.Teams are proud to retire their legends numbers, not to mention it is also a smart marketing tool to sell more jerseys and merchandise for people to wear and use. It is a win-win situation for everybody.

On September 11 when the A’s host the Chicago White Sox, the Oakland A’s fans in attendance will receive a replica of #34 Dave Stewart’s number which will be officially retired by the team. Stewart is one of the A’s legends. As a great pitcher Dave Stewart was the heart and soul of the Oakland Community, specially during the 1989 World Series during the Loma Prieta earthquake.

One of the last pitchers in baseball to have four consecutive 20 game winning seasons, his famous “Death Stare” in the mound when he was pitching is remembered forever in the memories of A’s fans, as well as those hitters who faced him.

Another great Oakland A’s player is Cuban-born shortstop Dagoberto Blanco (Campy) Campaneris. Campy is the only Latino shortstop in history to have been a shortstop for three-consecutive World Series champion. The 1972-73-74 Oakland A’s. Campy will be in attendance as the A’s celebrate their 1972 World Series Champion team reunion on Saturday June 4 at the Oakland Coliseum.

Campy (now living in Arizona) is a shy and humble man who as the A’s lead-off hitter was the spark plug for those great championship teams of the early 1970’s. Many times I have spoken with Campy he has always cherished those great memories.

He is a baseball man to his core, his stories about the game are priceless. He still represents the Oakland A’s and is happy to sign autographs for fans when the A’s conduct their Spring Training camp in Arizona.

A few years ago I was called by CH 2 FOX to translate for Campy for an exclusive interview done by Mark Ibañez their sports anchor during Spring Training. Campy is so humble he told me “¿por qué quieren hablar conmigo?” trans- ‘why do they want to talk to me?”.

Reggie Jackson became a star with the Oakland A’s, and a mega star once he won two World Series championships and earned the nickname “Mr. October,” with the New York Yankees. Reggie said that those Yankee teams were inferior to the Oakland A’s teams that won back-to-back-to back championships in the 1970s with Jackson as its megastar, according to the man himself. Reggie (whose number 9 is retired by the A’s) always talks fondly about Campy Campaneris, “The Road Runner”, the man that ignited that great lineup.

Around 30 to 33 percent of all players in today’s game are Hispanic. The Oakland A’s always enjoyed very loyal Hispanic fans in the Bay Area and across the country and those that remember Campy will tell you he was an integral part of the “Swinging A’s” during his playing days.

I hope the Oakland Athletics consider the retirement of Campy Campaneris number 19. To this day, the A’s have not retired a number from one of their Latino players and I cannot think of a better person than Dagoberto Blanco (Campy) Campaneris. In the past I have suggested to A’s upper management the importance of retiring Campy Campaneris number 19. I hope in the near future they will. It is time.

These are the numbers retired to date by the Oakland A’s:

34 Rickey Henderson, 43 Dennis Eckersley, 9 Reggie Jackson, 27 Jim “Catfish” Hunter, 34 Rollie Fingers and Walter A. Haas, Jr, Owner.

Dagoberto “Blanco” Campaneris is in The Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the lead Spanish play by play announcer for the Oakland A’s on flagship station 1010 KIQI LeGrande San Francisco and does News and Commentary at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Twins open series against A’s with 3-1 win at Coliseum

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Minnesota Twins’ Gary Sanchez, bottom left, is congratulated by third base coach Tommy Watkins after hitting a home run off of Oakland Athletics pitcher Domingo Acevedo, rear at the Oakland Coliseum on Mon May 16, 2022 (AP News photo)

Minnesota. 3. 8. 0

Oakland. 1. 4. 0

Monday May 16, 2022

By Lewis Rubman

OAKLAND–May has not been a merry month for the Oakland A’s (15-23). Their won-lost record since April 30 was 5-7 going into tonight’s game against the Minnesota Twins (21-15), bad enough for the hometown team to bring up the rear in the American League’s western division at 15-22.

Their hitting has been so bad that this is what the game notes distributed this afternoon led off its section entitled “Offense:” “The A’s had three sacrifice hits yesterday, which was just their second game with three sacrifice bunts over the last 21 years (also Aug. 3, 2013 vs. Texas)…have seven sacrifice hits for the season, which is tied for the most in the American League….” That was the good news.

Oakland’s team batting average after Monday’s debacle stood at .199. Sabrmetrics has taught us that there are better gauges of offensive strength than the BA, but that’s still a pretty distressing statistic.

Meanwhile, their opponents from the Twin Cities came to town leading the AL Central at 20-15. Not earth shatteringly good but not too shabby either.

The A’s chose a rookie southpaw for their starter Zach Logue, at 2-1,1.35, owed his one loss to the Twinkies, having thrown 90 pitches against them on May 6, his first major league start. He lasted five innings and allowed two runs, both earned, on five hits and two walks. Unfortunately, two of those hits went the distance.

The 26 year old native of Mason, Ohio, was acquired from the Blue Jays in March and assigned to Las Vegas, joining the A’s on the day of his debut. With the Aviators, he went 0-0,5.63. He took the loss tonight.

His right handed opponent for the Twins had a tad more experience. This was his 222nd start in the show. (As WC Fields complimented May West in “My Little Chickadee,” “What symmetrical digits!). At game time, he had hurled 1276-2/3 innings for five teams in a major league career that dates back to 2006, in which he twice was named to the American League all-star team.

Sliders and four seamers, in that order, are the pitches he throws most frequently. They average 88.8 and 93.2 mph, respectively. He also uses a changeup that averages 87.1 mph and a curve. He uses those last two tools a little less than 11% of the time, combined.

The Twins drew first blood in the top of the third following a leadoff double to center by Royce Lewis. Just when it looked as if Logue would escape unscathed, Polanco lined a two out single to center, driving in Lewis

An over eager Christian Pache overthrew Murphy at home, and Polanco took second on the throw. No error was charged to the A’s centerfielder, but a more judicious return of Polanco’s hit would have been cut off before he could advance.

No harm was done, however; Luis Barrera corralled Kyle Garlick’s fly at the left center field wall to retire the side. Nonetheless, Oakland was down 1-0, and with the A’s hitting in the state it’s been in, that was an unpleasant situation for the East Bay crew to find itself in.

But they came back to tie it up in the bottom half of the frame. With Seth Brown, who walked, on first with two down, Elvis Andrus, whose bat has started to come alive recently, split the distance between left and center field for a run producing two bagger. It was his fourth RBI of the season and raised his BA to .224.

The Twins broke the tie in their next turn at bat. Logue walked Lewis, and number nine batter Nick Gordon sacrificed him to second. The gambit paid off; Byron Buxton singled Lewis home.

When Logue threw four balls to Polanco for his second walk of the inning (and the game), putting runners on first and second with one out, manager Mark Kotsay yanked him in favor of Domingo Acevedo.

Twins manager Rocco Baldelli responded by having left handed Luis Arraez pinch hit for Garlick. Acevedo got the next two men out, limiting the damage to a single run.

Logue had toiled 4-1/3 innings and allowed two runs, both earned on five hits and two walks. He struck out three, having thrown 82 pitches, 46 of them strikes.

Archer didn’t make it as far into the game as Logue had. The veteran was removed after four full innings, too soon to be credited with the win. He surrendered one run, it was earned, two hits and a walk.

He K’d two Athletics and threw 62 pitches, 37 for strikes. Yennier Cano took his place on the mound and was credited, in a scorer’s decision, with the win. His record now stands at 1-0, and he lowered his ERA from 11.57 to 6.23.

Acevedo coughed up the Twins’ third run on Gary Sánchez’a lead off blast over the Stream Your A’s sign in center field in the sixth. The Minnesota catcher’s third homer of the year traveled 433 feet and came off of a 92 mph four seam fastball.

AJ Puk, who recently has been one of the bright spots of the A’s bullpen, took over on the hill to open the top of the seventh for the hometeam. In spite of two hard hit singles and with a little help from outstanding plays by Cristian Pache, Elvis Andrus, and Seth Brown, he held the line at 3-1, Twins.

Griffin Jax entered the game for the Twin Cities after “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Andrus greeted him with his second safety of the night, a single to right, but he was erased in a 4-6-3 double play off the bat of Barrera before Kevin Smith fanned on three pitches.

A’s reliever Lou Trivino pitched a perfect eight, yielding to A’s reliever Justin Grimm for the ninth, who gave up a walk without suffering any further damage

Tyler Duffey, trying to earn his first save of the season after failing in his two previous opportunities, set the Athletics down in order

At 6:40 tomorrow evening, the A’s James Kaprielian (0-2,4.97) will match pitches against the Twins’ Dyan Bundy (3-2,5.76) at the Oakland Coliseum first pitch 6:40 pm PDT.

That’s Amaury News and Commentary podcast: A’s simply are missing the hitting; Failure to score is keeping A’s in loss column

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The Oakland A’s Ramon Laureano steals third base in the bottom of the fifth inning of Sun May 15, 2022’s game against the Los Angeles Angels at the Oakland Coliseum. The A’s have been thin on scoring runs in recent games. (AP News photos)

On That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary podcast:

#1 Amaury, Oakland A’s starter Frankie Montas has had some great outings but took another loss on Sunday against the Los Angeles Angels 4-1. The A’s simply have not been able to provide enough offense against a team like the Angels.

#2 Onto Montas his line impressive six innings, four hits, two earned runs, one walk, and 12 strikeouts. He’s been consistent keeping runners in check and hitters off balance.

#3 The A’s host the Minnesota Twins tonight opening up a three game series here at the Coliseum. The Twins have won five out if their last ten games maintain first place in the AL Central and have a three game lead over the second place Cleveland Guardians.

#4 Amaury, in other baseball news speaking of not getting any run support Cincinnati Reds starter Hunter Greene went 7.1 innings, no hits and nine strikeouts and reliver Art Warren pitched two thirds of an inning walking the Pittsburgh Pirate Rudolfo Castro who eventually scored the game’s only run in the bottom of the eighth as the Pirates were no hit but won the game 1-0.

#5 Amaury, The Cleveland Guardians and Chicago White Sox were the first game to be postponed in the 2022 season. There were multiple Covid 19 positive tests within the Guardian organization which included manager Tito Francona the Guardians are scheduled to face Minnesota Twins Friday night for three games.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the lead Spanish play by play announcer for flagship station 1010 KIQI Le Grande San Francisco and does News and Commentary podcasts at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Howard Terminal Ballpark-Lawsuit has 270 days of life

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Artists rendition of the Oakland A’s Howard Terminal Ballpark at Jack London Square in downtown Oakland (image from the San Francisco Chronicle)

Howard Terminal Ballpark – Lawsuit have 270 days of Life-

That’s Amaury News and Commentary

By Amaury Pi-González

OAKLAND–Howard Terminal New Ballpark. A huge project that would transform the City of Oakland.

-$12 Billion private investment

-$1 Billion for the construction of the ballpark

-3.000 units of housing

-1.5 million square feet of office space

-270,000 feet of retail space

-400 room hotel

-18 acres of parkland

-$450 million in community benefits

In 2014 California Judicial Council approves new court rules, (below)

  • New court rules will significantly expedite the timeline for lawsuits brought under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to challenge the certification of the environmental impact report (EIR) or the granting of any project approvals that require the actions or proceedings for certain large “leadership” development projects certified by the Governor.
  • For these leadership projects, the CEQA lawsuit, including appeals, must be resolved within 270 days of certification of the administrative record.

The A’s are facing two lawsuits, one by the Union Pacific Railroad Company and another by the East Oakland Stadium Alliance, which is a coalition of marine, port and transportation.  Both lawsuits are challenging the certification of the ballpark’s environmental impact report, another important part of process to approve the project.

Most recent good news for the A’s came in early May, from the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission which said a report that the land where the A’s proposed to build the ballpark is not needed by the Port of Oakland.

This was a preliminary recommendation, although a positive step, now the Commission will decide on June 30 whether to accept that recommendation. If that hurdle is cleared, the A’s are running between-second and third, on their way to score the new ballpark in Oakland.

Join Amaury Pi Gonzalez at the Oakland Coliseum for a visit at the Major League Baseball Hispanic Heritage Hall of Fame Museum and for News and Commentary at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Where’s the O in Oakland? A’s are looking for it after quiet 4-1 loss to the Angels

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By Morris Phillips

OAKLAND–Thirteen times in 37 games the A’s haven’t given themselves a chance. In the cavernous, sparsely populated Coliseum, you can hear what everyone’s asking.

Where’s the offense?

The A’s got a high quality start from Frankie Montas but did little to support it in 4-1 loss to the Angels on Sunday. Thirteen times the A’s have scored one or no runs, and they lost for the 12th time on Sunday under those limitations.

The A’s finished with five hits, proof they couldn’t solve Patrick Sandoval or reliever Jimmy Herget. Both pitchers had their moments of vulnerability, but the A’s never produced a breakthrough. Eleven at-bats with a runner in scoring position were squandered. The A’s only run came on Sean Murphy’s ground out with Jed Lowrie breaking to the plate from third.

The hosts could claim fatigue. In a once in a career type week with nine games in seven days, the A’s finished 5-4, but lost three of the last four to their Southern California rivals.

Last season–with Matt Olson and Matt Chapman leading their offense–the A’s won 15 of 19 against the Angels. This season the health of Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, along with the emergence of Taylor Ward have allowed the Angels to turn things around. They’re tied for first place with the Astros, and Sunday’s win moved them 11 games over .500 for the first time in nearly three years.

“Our goal is to win within our division,” Maddon said. “That’s a big goal of ours this year. We were horrible at it last year, and especially against Oakland. They beat up on us like a drum last year. We have to get better within our division. We’ve got to win series like this on the road.”

Ohtani capped his best series in Oakland with a loud, two-run shot off Montas in the first inning. On Saturday, Ohtani hit his 100th home run in the second game of the scheduled doubleheader.

“Not many people hit Montas but I don’t know, that was 97 mph elevated and he got all of it. When he’s starting to get to that, heads up.”

Anaheim nursed a 2-1 lead until the eighth when they came up with single runs in the eighth and ninth to put the game away.

On Monday, the A’s loaded stretch of games continues with the Twins visiting the Coliseum. Zach Logue will be recalled from AAA Las Vegas and make his third, big league start for the A’s in a match-up with the Twins’ Chris Archer.

Ohtani puts the clamps on A’s in 4-1 Halos win at Coliseum

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Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani gets around on a Oakland A’s starter Frankie Montas top of the first inning pitch for a home run at the Oakland Coliseum on Sun May 15, 2022

By Jerry Fetielberg

The Los Angeles Angels Shohei Ohtani connected for the second game in a row for a home run at the Oakland Coliseum to help pace the Angels past the Oakland A’s 4-1 on Sunday afternoon as the Angels took three out of four games in the series.

Ohtani who hit his 100th career homer on Saturday’s second game of a doubleheader becoming the third Japanese born player to accomplish such a record knocked out his eighth home run of the season a real rip 425 feet into the right field Coliseum stands.

Angels manager Joe Maddon was impressed by the length of the Ohtani blast and said not too many people can hit a ball off A’s starter Frankie Montas like that, “That had some great hang time to it,” Maddon said. “Not many people hit Montas but I don’t know, that was 97 mph elevated and he got all of it. When he’s starting to get to that, heads up.”

Angels starter Patrick Sandoval contributed big in his performance getting into the sixth inning with one out surrendering four hits and just one earned run. Sandoval in his last two outings got touched up but against the A’s line up on Sunday he had his control and helped the Angels go 11 games over the .500 mark in the AL West.

Sandoval also improved his ERA dropping it to 1.91 he walked four batters but was able to get out of some close calls leaving runs aboard after the first three innings. Sandoval cut it really close leaving runners in scoring position four different times.

Ohtani was walked intentionally to the sound of the Coliseum crowd booing many of who were wearing Angels red jerseys this coming after Montas had got two out and gave up a top of third inning lead off triple to leadoff hitter Taylor Ward.

The A’s were 0-11 while leaving men on second base, the A’s ended Sandoval’s shutout in the bottom of the third inning when A’s catcher Sean Murphy hit into a ground out RBI. Montas had his pitches working despite the loss going six innings giving up four hits and two earned runs, walking one and striking out 12 Angels batters.

The Minnesota Twins (20-15) are a team that have presence and they come to the Coliseum to open a three game series on Monday night the Twins will be starting right hander Chris Archer (0-1 ERA 4.43) going up against the A’s lefthander Zach Louge (2-1 ERA 1.35) a 6:40 pm PDT first pitch.

Barrera’s walk-off homer helps A’s earn doubleheader split with Angels; A’s win 4-3, lose 9-1

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The Oakland A’s Luis Barrera connects for a right field walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning against the Los Angeles Angels in the front game of a doubleheader at the Oakland Coliseum on Sat May 14, 2022 (AP News photo)

By Daniel Dullum
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Luis Barrera hit a dramatic walk-off home run for Oakland in game one, and Shohei Otani reached a unique milestone in game two for the Los Angeles Angels, as the AL West teams split a doubleheader Saturday at the Oakland Coliseum.

The Athletics won the first game 4-3, while the Angels took the nightcap 9-1. Oakland is in fourth place in the AL West at 15-21, while the Angels are in second place with a record of 23-13.

GAME 1
Athletics 4, Angels 3In the bottom of the ninth, Raisel Iglesias (1-1) was called upon by Los Angeles to preserve the Angels’ 3-1 lead, and promptly retired pinch hitter Seth Brown and Sean Murphy on outfield flyouts.

Ramon Laureano doubled to right-center, followed by a walk issued to Christian Bethancourt. Barrera homered 373 feet to right field, ending the game and atoning for a throwing error in the eighth that allowed the Angels’ third run.

The Angels scored two runs in the top of the eighth to break a 1-1 tie. Anthony Redon hit a run-scoring single to left, and Andrew Velazquez also hit an RBI single to left. Mike Trout, who was intentionally walked, scored on the play after Barrera’s throwing error.

Oakland tied the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the seventh on Jed Lawrie’s RBI single to center, scoring Laureano, who opened the inning with a double.

Barrera’s heroics made Lou Trivino (1-2) the winning pitcher. Trivino worked the final 1/3 of the ninth inning, logging one strikeout. A’s starter Paul Blackburn went 6 2/3 innings, giving up one earned run on five hits and two walks with three strikeouts.

Angels starter Jhonathan Diaz worked 4 2/3 innings, giving one hit and four walks with four strikeouts. Reliever Aaron Loup was charged with a blown save.

Laureano had two of Oakland’s five hits. Brandon Marsh was 3-for-4 for Los Angeles.

GAME 2
Angels 9, Athletics 1

Shohei Ohtani hit his 100th career home run in the top of the fifth inning off A’s starter Adam Oller (0-3). By hitting his seventh home run of the season, Ohtani became the second MLB player to hit 100 home runs as a hitter and strike out 250 hitters, joining only Babe Ruth.

Ohtani also became the third Japanese-born MLB player to hit 100 home runs, joining Hideki Matsui and Ichiro Suzuki.

Oller was rung up for eight earned runs on six hits and three walks, while striking out three. Justin Grimm and Adam Kolarek also pitched in relief for the A’s.

Michael Lorenzen (4-2) held the A’s to one earned run on five hits and one walk, with three strikeouts. Angels leadoff hitter Taylor Ward was 3-for-3 with a double and his eighth home run of the season, along with five runs batted in.

The two teams wrap up their weekend series on Sunday afternoon. Patrick Sandoval (1-1, 2.03) starts for the Angels, while the A’s counter with Frankie Montas (2-3, 3.77). First pitch is set for 1:07 p.m. PDT.

Angels Silseth and bullpen 2 hit shutout A’s 2-0 to open four game series at Coliseum

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Los Angeles Angels’ Chase Silseth deals against the Oakland Athletics during the bottom of the sixth inning at the Oakland Coliseum on Fri May 13, 2022 (AP News photo)

Los Angeles (AL)). 2. 6. 0

Oakland. 0. 2 0

Friday May 13, 2022

By Lewis Rubman

OAKLAND–My childhood friend the late Joseph Nigota used to live across the street from Madison Square Garden. Each year he eagerly awaited the day when the circus train would arrive in the Hudson Yards and make the circus parade past his home while he watched it through the apartment windows.

Today the circus came to Oakland, featuring Shoehei Ohtani and his accompanying trapeze artists, the High Flying Los Angeles Angels, at game time record well above .500 at 21-12, just a half a game behind the Yankees for first place in the AL West.

The boys and girls of the press peered through the windows of their apartment while a scattering of paying customers, announced as numbering 13,992, which qualifies as a crowd these days at the Coliseum watched from the stands as the A’s fell to the Angels 2-0.

Shohei Ohtani did not pitch for the visitors this evening, instead batting third as the designated hitter. He went 0-4 with a strikeout. Pitching duties for the Halos fell to Chase Silseth, making his major league debut. Indeed, last year’s 11th round draft pick hadn’t even thrown a ball at the AAA level.

He made three appearances for the Rocket City Pandas in ’21 and had gone 2-0 ERA 1.69 for the same team in the AA Southern League this year when he was called to the show this morning. He would get the win after an outstanding six innings of masterful hurling.

Oakland’s starter was a more known quality and quantity. Although he, too, technically is a rookie, Daulton Jefferies went 1-0 ERA 3.60 in five appearances for the green and gold in 2021 and 1-5 ERA 5.22 for them last season.

He held Philadelphia scoreless on two hits and two walks in his five inning stint against the Phillies back on April 10 but between then and his first pitch of Friday evening he had 0-5 record in the bigs. He took the loss. For this year Jefferies drops his record to 1-6 ERA 4.84.

The recently reinstated Ramón Laurano saved Jefferies’ bacon twice in the top of the third. Playing in right field, he made an exciting diving catch of Chad Wallach’s sinking liner to right center that opened the inning. Next, his rifle-armed throw to second on Tyler Wade’s hard single to right held the Angels’ second sacker to a single.

Jefferies struck out Andrew Velásquez on an 87.9 mph change up and then yielded an infield single to Taylor Ward but wiggled out of the threat by getting the dangerous Mike Trout to ground out to Elvis Andrus at short.

Andrus giveth and Andrus taketh away. His lead off single to center in the third was Oakland´s first hit. He reached second on Pache sacrifice to third and then made the mistake of trying to advance on Lowrie’s fly to left.

Brandon Marsh’s accurate throw cut him down easily to end the inning. Sheldon Neuse, the only Athletic with a respectable batting average (unless you count Pinder’s .253) was on deck.

The Angels didn’t give away their chance to score in the top of the fourth. Anthony Rendón smacked a one out double to left that left his bat at 107 mph. An out later, he scampered home Marsh´s single up the middle to center.

The team from SoCal doubled its lead in their half of the fifth. Number nine hitter Andrew Velásquez hit his first roundtripper of the season, a 372 foot blast to right that earned him his fifth RBI and made the score 2-0 in favor of the Angels. Mike Trout made the third out of the frame, striking out swinging. One never knows, do one?

Kirby Snead relieved Jefferies after six innings of play, in which the A’s starter allowed two runs, both earned, five hits, one of them a four bagger, and no walks while striking out four. He threw 88 pitches, 55 for strikes. A credible performance and an encouraging one.

Silseth also was removed after six innings of work. The 19 year old’s line was exceptional. He shut the Athletics out on just one hit and two walks. He K’d five A’s and threw 81 pitches, 52 of them considered strikes.

Aaron Loup replaced him on the mound, throwing a perfect seventh, followed by Ryan Teper for Oakland’s penultimate turn at bat. He allowed the A’s second hit, a single by Andrus, who was the only Athletic to hit safely all night.

Snead retired the Angels in order in his assigned frame, yielding to Lou Trivino in the eighth, who looked sharp as he set the Halos down 1-2-3 in his inning of work. Sam Moll took over for him. in the top of the final frame and allowed nothing more harmful than a single to Rendón.

Raisel Iglesias came in in the ninth to get the save, his eighth in eight opportunities. He did, putting Oakland down in order.

The teams will play a day-night doubleheader for Saturday. Games scheduled to start at 1:07 and 6:40. We can expect to see the Angels Jhonathan Díaz (1-0 ERA 0.00) against the A’s Paul Blackburn (4-0 ERA1.74) in the front game and in the night cap the Angels will start Patrick Sandoval (1-1 ERA 2.03) going against the A’s Frankie Montás (2-3 ERA 3.77).

Oakland A’s podcast with Jeremiah Salmonson: A’s coming off four out of five wins in Detroit as Ohtani and Angels open in Oakland tonight

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Los Angeles Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani delivers against the Tampa Bay Rays line up in the top of the third inning at the Big A in Anaheim on Wed May 11, 2022. Ohtani and the Angels come to the Coliseum to open a series against the Oakland A’s Fri May 13, 2022 (AP News photo)

A’s podcast with Jeremiah:

#1 After snapping a nine game losing streak the Oakland A’s (14-19) climbed out of the basement in the AL West with four out of five wins over the Detroit Tigers (9-23) and in some of those wins the A’s did it with authority.

# 2 On Thursday the A’s got home run help from Seth Brown who hit a two run shot to give the A’s the go ahead runs and eventual 5-3 win over the Bengals.

#3 Brown said that he had his hand leaking out on the bat and tightened up on the grip and was able to correct his swing after going 0-3 with a strikeout before hitting the eighth inning home run.

#4 A’s manager Mark Kotsay said that before coming to Detroit the team had been frustrated and needed to find a breakout series which they got from their offense on the pitching side AJ Puk threw two innings of shutout ball against the Tigers and picked up the win.

#5 Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels prepare to open a four game series at the Oakland Coliseum Friday night. The Angels will start Chase Silseth (0-0 ERA 0.00) going up against A’s starter Daulton Jefferies (1-5 ERA 5.22) a 6:45 pm PDT first pitch.

Join Jeremiah for the A’s podcasts Fridays at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

A’s Take four of five from Tigers In a 5-3 Win

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The Oakland A’s Seth Brown (15) who connected for a go ahead two run home run in the top of the eighth inning against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park on Thu May 12, 2022 (AP News photo)

A’s Take four of five from Tigers In a 5-3 Win

By Barbara Mason

Thursday afternoon the Oakland A’s (14-19) took on the Detroit Tigers (9-23) in the fifth and final game of their series. Oakland took their hot bats into this game winning their third game in a row and took four out of five at Comerica Park with a 5-3 win.

Lately the A’s have been scoring in the early innings and this game was no exception. In the first inning a single by Jed Lowrie drove in Tony Kemp for an early 1-0 lead. Christian Bethany who is on a hot streak had a single and drove in Jed Lowrie and Sheldon Neuse now leading 3-0.

It was a quiet second, third and fourth inning for both teams. In the fifth inning the Tigers scored a couple of runs trailing Oakland 3-2. Tucker Barnhart doubled and Willi Castro would score followed by Robbie Grossman who grounded out to first and Torkelson would score.

In the sixth inning the Tigers would tie up the game 3-3. Miguel Cabrera doubled and Candeloria scored .

After a quiet seventh inning the A’s broke this game open. Seth Brown came through for Oakland hitting a tie breaking home run in the eighth inning giving them a 5-3 lead which would be the final score.

Oakland will now head back to the Bay Area where they will meet the red hot second place Los Angeles Angels Friday night. This wil be a huge challenge for the A’s but the good news for Oakland is that they are hitting again and scoring in the early innings.

Dalton Jeffries will take the mound for the A’s and the Angels will send Chase Silseth to start the game. First pitch is scheduled for 6:40 PM.