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 [...]

What a great day to decide to watch an A’s game in its entirety. Late start times and bad timing meant I hadn’t watched a full A’s game in over a week, but I was able to catch all 14 innings of today’s crazy game with the White Sox. Of course, being that it was [...]

Well they almost didn’t pull it off as they needed an extra innings comeback in the last game, but the A’s managed to take two out of three from the visiting Royals for their first series win of the season. In Monday’s game, Tom Milone threw eight innings of shutout ball en route to a [...]