Tag: Oakland A’s

Oakland A’s Tony Kemp (5) considers rounding second base as the New York Yankees infielder Anthony Volpe (11) looks for the possible throw at the Oakland Coliseum on Thu Jun 29, 2023 (@Athletics photo)

By Jerry Feitelberg

OAKLAND–The Oakland A’s met the New York Yankees in a day game on Thursday at the Oakland Coliseum. Both teams, the A’s and the Yankees, wanted to win the rubber game of the three-game series. The A’s had to rebound from having been the recipients of Domingo German’s perfect game Wednesday night. The Yankees beat the A’s 11-0 and wanted to continue putting runs on the board.

Well, the Yankees found their offense again on Thursday as they erupted in the sixth inning to score eight times to break open the game and coast to an easy 10-4 win over the hapless A’s.

The A’s starter, lefty Hogan Harris, was pitching relatively well heading into the sixth. Harris had held the Yankees to just two runs in his first five innings. The A’s scored one in the first, two in the third, and led 3-2 heading into the fateful sixth inning. The Yankees sent 13 men to the plate in the sixth, scoring eight times. The game summary follows.

The A’s jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first. Tony Kemp led off the inning with a single. Kemp stole second and went to third on an errant throw from Yankees’ catcher Jose Ramirez. JJ Bleday’s sacrifice fly to left drove in Kemp for the score.

The Yankees tied the game with a run in the top of the second. Yankees left fielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa sent one of Harris’ pitches over the wall in center field. Esteury Ruiz tried to make a leaping catch. Ruiz had the ball in his glove, but his momentum crashing into the fence caused the ball and his glove to drop on the other side. 

The A’s plated two runs in the third to lead 3-1. Yankees’ starter Clarke Schmidt walked Ryan Noda and JJ Bleday to start the inning. Seth Brown singled to deep right field to drive in Noda, and Bleday went to third on the play. Carlos Perez’ Sacrifice fly drove in Bleday with the A’s third run.

The Yankees put their second run of the game on the board in the fourth. Harrison Baded doubled to get things going. Josh Donaldson’s ground out sent Bader to third base. Kiner-Falefa drove in BAder with a sacrifice fly. The A’s led 3-2 after four complete.

The Yankees had a huge inning in the sixth. The New Yorkers sent 13 men to the plate and scored eight runs. They had seven hits, one walk, and two batters hit by a pitch. Harrison Bader singled to get the rally started.

Third baseman Josh Donaldson, much maligned by Yankee fans for his poor showing this year, crushed a pitch that went 472 feet off the facing of the second deck in left field. Donaldson’s blast was the eighth-longest home run hit by any player in baseball this season.

Harris retired Kiner-Falefa for the first out. Anthony Volpe singled. A’s manager Mark Kotsay brought in Lucas Erceg to pitch. Erceg hit Jose Trevino with a pitch. DJ LeMAhieu walked to load the bases. Glyber Torres singled to drive in Volpe and Trevino to make it a 6-3 Yankee lead.

The onslaught continued. Erceg hit Anthony Rizzo with a pitch. Giancarlo Stanton doubled to drive in two more. Bader’s single drove in Rizzo with the Yankees’ ninth run and the seventh of the inning. The A’s brought in lefty Ken Waldichuk to pitch. Kiner-Falefa drove in his third run with a single to make it 10-3. The Yankees blew the game open.

The Yankees did not score after the sixth. The A’s scored a meaningless run in the eighth. The Yankees won 10-4 and won the series two games to one.

Game notes: The A’s have lost 12 of the last 14 games played. Their record is now a dismal 21-62. The Yankees improved to 45-36.

Hogan Harris was the losing pitcher. His record is 2-2. Hogan’s line was five and 1/3rd innings pitched. He allowed nine hits, five runs, four earned, walked two, struck out two, and gave up two home runs. Reliever Lucas Erceg did not record an out. He allowed three hits and four runs. 

The line score for Oakland was four runs, eight hits, and one error.

The Line score for New York was ten runs, 13 hits, and one error. 

When a pitch hit Anthony Rizzo in the sixth inning, it was the 212th time he was hit in his career. Only seven other players in all of baseball history have been hit more times.

Seth Brown’s three singles were the only bright spot for the A’s. 

The A’s welcome the Chicago White Sox to the Coliseum for three games starting Friday night. The A’s will send Luis Medina (1-7, 6.84) to the hill Friday night. The White Sox have yet to announce their starter. The game will start at 6:40 pm.

New York Yankees pitcher Herman Domingo holds up the winner’s belt after throwing a perfect game no hitter at the Oakland Coliseum against the Oakland A’s on Wed Jun 28, 2023 (@Yankees photo)

Oakland A’s podcast with Jerry F:

#1 He’ll be the talk of baseball for the rest of this season the New York Yankees pitcher Herman Domingo who threw a perfect no hit game against the Oakland A’s.

#2 The A’s have struggled up and down the line up how bad does it get for their confidence after having a no hit perfect game thrown against them?

#3 Watching Herman Jerry talk about his command and control against the A’s line up on Wednesday night.

#4 You can’t forget also the Yankees who hit everything that was thrown up at the plate for them they got 11 runs on 11 hits.

#5 The Yankees will start right hander Clarke Schmidt (2-6 ERA 4.32) who will be opposed by the A’s Hogan Harris (2-1 ERA 4.91) for a 12:37pm PT first pitch at the Oakland Coliseum to conclude the three game series.

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New York Yankee Domingo German deals the last pitch of the game for ground out to third for a no hit perfect game at the Oakland Coliseum against the Oakland A’s on Thu Jun 29, 2023 (photo by Mauricio Segura)

By Michael Roberson

OAKLAND, Calif. — New York Yankees pitcher Domingo German is the 24th pitcher in Major League history to toss a Perfect Game, in an 11-0 shutout victory over the Oakland Athletics in the Coliseum.

Both teams were actually hitless and scoreless the first three innings of play, but that changed in the Top of the fourth.

Yankees right fielder Giancarlo Stanton belted a homer to left field, putting the visitors on the scoreboard, 1-0 NYY.  Eventually the game-winning run.

The fifth inning turned into an explosion for the Bronx County Batters.  They tallied a whopping 6 runs in a variety of ways, including two more rbi’s for Stanton on a single to left.  After five, 7-0 Yankees.

While this offensive onslaught was going on, New York’s pitcher was keeping Oakland at Bay.

The Yankees managed to add four more runs to their advantage, but that wasn’t the compelling story in the latter innings; could Domingo do it?

German not only Did It, but completed the mission in a very efficient fashion.  He threw 99 pitches, 72 strikes and executed nine strikeouts.

Postgame he acknowledged that Oakland just became one of his favorite US cities after his historic performance, and it will always be synonymous with his best game ever.

The same two combatants will battle Thursday Afternoon (12:37 Pacific) in the rubber game (1-1) of three-game series.

New York Yankees starter Domingo Herman pitches a perfect no hitter against the Oakland A’s at the Oakland Coliseum on Wed Jun 28, 2023 (@Yankees image)

New York (AL) (44-36). 000 016 103. – 11. 11. 0

Oakland (21-61). 000 000 000 – 0. 0. 3

Time: 2:30

Attendance: 12,479

Wednesday, June 28 Oakland

By Lewis Rubman

OAKLAND–JP Sears, whom the A’s acquired in the deal that sent Frankie Montás to New York, started the day at 1-5, 4.10. He went seven innings in each of his last two starts but lost both of them, allowing 16 earned runs in 14 innings.

That comes to an ERA of 3.82. Tonight, he was lights out for 3-2/3 inning and got lit up after that. He ended up pitching 4+ frames and allowing seven runs, six earned and three posthumous.He walked three and struck out five, allowing five hits, including a home run. He threw 92 pitches, 55 for strikes. He took the loss, leaving him with a record of 1-6, 4.43.

The Bronx Bombers entrusted mound duties to Domingo Germán, who brought a 4-5, 5.10 record with him. The 30 year old righty needed two strikeouts to reach 500, a milestone he reached in the bottom of the first and passed when caught Jonah Bride looking at a third strike to end the second.

But that was nothing to what was to come. He threw a perfect game. Nine innings. 99 pitches. 72 for strikes. No hits. No walks. No nothing. He ended the day at 5-5, 4.54.

Neither pitcher allowed a hit until the top of the fourth, when Giancarlo Stanton slammed a two out 422 foot shot into the left center field seats, his seventh round tripper of the year. Harrison Badere followed that with a double against the 367 foot sign in left, but Sears recovered to fan Josh Donaldson and hold the damage down to one run.

The damage increased by six runs in the next frame. Isiah Kiner-Falefa led off with a walk. Kyle Higashioka drove. him in with a two bagger to left. Anthony Volpe laid down a bunt and beat it out for a single. Sears had fielded the ball and then threw it past Noda at first for an error that allowed Volpe to reach second and Higashioka to score.

DJ LeMahieu singled Volpe home, and Gleyber Torres walked. It was Noda’s turn to make an error at first. He failed to handle Rizzo’s ground ball, loading the bases and sending Sears to the showers. His replacement was Shintaro Fujinami, who promptly gave up a two run single to Stanton. That and Kiner-Falefa’s two out single brought the score to 7-0.

The recently acquired and promoted Yacksel Ríos opened the top of the seventh, threw three balls to Stanton, and left with an as yet undisclosed injury, and left the game. Austin Pruitt replaced him and delivered the fourth ball to the Yankees’ right fielder. Josh Donaldson’s sac fly to center plated Stanton. The run was charged to Ríos.

The story had long since ceased to be about offense, much less who would win the game. The question was if the Athletics would manage to get a man on base.

San Long. pitched the top of the ninth and gave up three runs, but that was just a footnote to the main story.

Germán had thrown 93 pitches over eight innings, and the closest an A’s batter had come to reaching first was when Germán threw ball three to Jonah Bride before he grounded out to third to end the inning.

Kemp grounded out to short. Noda flew out to right. Rooker grounded out to third. The Yankees’ number 0 had thrown a perfect game.

The series winds up tomorrow, Thursday, with a rubber game that is likely to be anticlimactic, starting at 12:37. The Yanks will send Clarke Schmidt (2-6, 4.32) against an as yet to be announced Athletics’ hurler.

Major league baseball is important to Oakland and the rest of the East Bay, but it’s not the only baseball game in town, and it still won’t be even if the crew that lost a perfect game by the lopsided score of 11-0 today camps out in the back yard of Las Vegas’s Tropicana casino.

We still will have the college, high school, youth leagues, little leagues, and sand lots (not to mention the independent Pecos League) that are the seedbeds of the big leaguers and fans of the future. One of the unsung heroes of that organic infrastructure of the sport is Lou Profumo (1938-2021), one time Red Sox farm hand and longtime youth and women’s baseball and softball coach.

I received word today that, after a two year delay, a playing field in the area he loved will be dedicated to him. The ceremony will take place on Friday morning, July 7, at 10:00 o’clock. The location is the San Leandro Ballpark, Teagarden and Fairway Streets, in that city.

It can be reached from the Marina Boulevard exit of I-880. If baseball is to survive, it will be thanks to the selfless efforts of the Lou Profumos of this world and not because of the nefarious scheming of the corporate entities looking to line their pockets as they cry poverty all the way to the bank.

The Oakland A’s Tyler Wade contributed big with the bat and glove at the Oakland Coliseum against the New York Yankees on Tue Jun 27, 2023 (@Athletics image)

New York (AL) (43-36). 000 010 000 000 – 1. 7. 0

Oakland (21-60). 001 100 000 000 – 2. 5 0

Time: 2:36

Attendance: 13,050

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

By Lewis Rubman

OAKALND–If you race to the bottom of this dispatch, you’ll find an attachment titled “Race to the Bottom.” That’s where you can keep up to date with the A’s dreary race to have the worst winning percentage in the history of major league baseball. Spoiler alert: it isn’t even close.

The Yankees historically have been a big draw here on the banks of the River Nimitz. It often was cheaper for New Yorkers to hop a flight to OAK, buy some pretty decent seats, get good, cheap food, and return to Gotham for less than it cost to spend an afternoon or evening in The House That Ruth Built.

Tonight’s game drew all of 13,050. people to the Coliseum, who watched the A’s defeat the Yanks, 2-1, in a nail biter. Most of the cheers before the ninth inning seemed to be for the Yankees.

The moribund Athletics sent hard luck hurler Paul Blackburn to the mound with an 0-0, 4.21 record. He pitched well tonight, lasting 5-1/3 innings and leaving with a runner on first. He allowed a single run, which was earned and came on a home run.

He surrendered three other hits and a walk, striking out five Bronx Bombers, 55 of his 90 offerings counted as strikes. Blackburn’s efforts earned him his first win of the year and brought his ERA down to 3.77.

The Bronx Bombers entrusted their pitching to rookie right hander Jhonny Brito, who came to work this evening with a record of 4-3, 4.89. Brito’s last appearance had been on June 21 at The Stadium, where held the Mariners scoreless on two hits over 5-2/3 innings, He earned the win for that performance.

He went 5-2/3 innings again tonight but yielded two runs, both of them earned. He surrendered four hits, one for four bases and struck out an equal number of opponents, two. He threw 81 pitches, 52 for strikes. He took the tough loss and now has a record of 4-4, 4.70.

The starters traded goose eggs until Tyler Wade sent a one out triple into the right flied corner and scored on Esteury Ruíz’s ensuing single to left put the A’s ahead, 1-0. Seth Brown’s towering fly over the right field auxiliary scoreboard in the fourth extended the lead to 2-0.

Old Oakland fan favorite Josh Donaldson cut the advantage in half with a lead off blast that travelled 423 feet into left field for his seventh home run of what has been a disappointing year at the plate for the Yankee’s third baseman. His four bagger came off a 91 mph four seam fast ball.

Lucas Erceg relieved Blackburn after the starter had issued a one out walk to Anthony Rizzo in the sixth. A force out and a strike out later the one run lead still stood.

Southpaw Nick Ramírez took over for Brito with one on and two down in the bottom of the sixth, walked Brown and retired Brett Rooker to close out the frame. Right handed Tommy Kahn replaced him for the home seventh and put the A’s away, 1-2-3.

It was Trevor May who was pitching for Oakland in the top of the eighth after Langeliers had thrown out Volpe trying to steal second. The Yanks challenged the call, but after review, it stood. May walked a couple of Yanks and almost walked the bases full but still escaped without any damage.

After Ruíz opened the home eighth with a Texas League single to right center, Wandy Peralta took Kahn’s place on the pitching rubber and shut the A’s down.

Sam Moll earned the save in the top of the ninth. Gleyber Torres led off with a pinch hit single to left. Moll bore down and got Donaldson on a called third strike.

Billy McKinney lined out to right. Two down. Volpe beat out a slow grounder too short. Oakland challenged the call. It stood. Kyle Higshioka, who had replaced IsiahKiner-Falefa, who had pinch run in the top of the inning, to 1-2, and … went down swinging.

The three game series resumes tomorrow at 6:40. Recovering New Yorkers like me can recall the Ballantine Blasts and White Owl Wallops of yesteryear while Domingo Germán (4-5, 5.10) of the pinstripers duels the A’s JP Sears (1-5, 4.10)