BY J.A. SCHWARTZ The 2020 baseball season has arrived at a destination that many felt would never be reached: the successful end of the regular season. Due to the legitimate concerns of staging baseball games amid a pandemic, many skeptics predicted that it was no better than a coin flip …
Read More »Mariners doubleheader sweep dulls A’s playoff momentum
BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Their AL West championship secure, the Athletics playoff seeding and confidence both took a blow heading into the postseason Saturday afternoon in the form of an ugly doubleheader loss to Seattle at the Coliseum. The losses all but assured the A’s of a third seed and a …
Read More »Giants blow shot to solidify playoff spot in walk-off loss to Pads
BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Two outs away from solidifying their postseason aspirations with a doubleheader sweep of San Diego, the Giants saw their dreams turn to nightmares as the Padres got to Sam Coonrod for three runs in the bottom of the seventh in a 6-5 loss punctuated by a three-run …
Read More »Manaea’s gem and Olson’s bat smoke Astros, extend lead to 6.5
BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER In one of the best pitching duels of the season, the A’s closed out their most important series of 2020 with a 3-1 win over the Houston Astros, firmly putting themselves in the drivers seat in the race for the AL West championship. The win, their fourth …
Read More »Padres, Tatis, shut down A’s as Houston arrives for five games
BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER San Diego got seven strong innings from Garrett Richards and Fernando Tatis Jr. belted his major league lead tying 15th home run to help lead the Padres to a 5-3 win over the A’s on a 100° day at the Coliseum Sunday afternoon. The loss sent Oakland …
Read More »Manaea, slumbering bats lead A’s to much needed win over Padres
BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER The A’s recorded their first win in ten days Saturday afternoon behind a solid start from Sean Manaea and 11 hits from an offense that provided a much needed shot in the arm during an 8-4 win over the San Diego Padres at the Coliseum. Coming into …
Read More »Athletes rising to meet the challenges of historic opportunities
BY J.A. SCHWARTZ Slavery existed in the United States since before its formal inception in 1776. Despite the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 that legally ended the practice of indentured servitude, systemic racism has festered in the genetic material of this nation, passed on from generation to generation. …
Read More »Giants streak crashes and burns in double shutouts to Dodgers
BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER The Giants seven-game winning streak came to a quick and inconspicuous end Thursday afternoon at Oracle Park in the form of back-to-back shutout loses to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The games came in the wake of a last-minute boycott of last nights game by both teams as …
Read More »A’s walk-off against Halos in 10th stretches lead to 4 1/2 games
BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Mark Canha’s tenth inning sacrifice fly drove in the winning run Sunday afternoon to give the A’s a 5-4 comeback win over the Los Angeles Angels in the rubber match of a three game series at the Coliseum. The win made Oakland the first team in the …
Read More »Tyler Anderson’s gem leads Giants past DBacks for fifth straight
BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER The Giants exploited shaky Arizona pitching to score four runs in the seventh inning and rode a three-hitter by Tyler Anderson to score a 5-1 win over the Diamondbacks Saturday evening at Oracle Park. It was the first complete game of Anderson’s career, the first of the …
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