It seems like I only  write a blog post after a ridiculously long extra inning game. But how could I not? Yesterday’s 18-inning win over the Yankees completed a series sweep and was probably the biggest win of the year, in a year when there will hopefully be many, many more big wins. Thank goodness [...]

Well I’m a bit belated on talking about that 19-inning game that the A’s played four days ago, but I was belated on watching the game itself. This season I have been watching west coast night games the next day. I have my MLB.tv At Bat app set to “hide scores” so I won’t see [...]

Well we are one week into a new Oakland A’s season and the A’s are 5-2. That is about as good as we could have expected over a seven-day stretch. I was worried when the team started 0-2 and scored a grand total of one run over 18 innings, but luckily all they needed was [...]

Thank you, Justin Verlander, for making it quick and somewhat painless. There was no heartbreaking moment at the end of this one. This was not a one-run game with a gut-wrenching foul popout with a runner on second or a called third strike with the bases loaded. This was just Verlander pitching like what he [...]

Really. We’ve used them a lot this season: Magical, unbelievable, amazing, improbable. Last night’s win was all of those things, and then some. I really don’t know what to call it. All I do know though is the A’s will play another baseball game tonight after what transpired in the bottom of the 9th inning [...]