During Spring Training, Trevor Cahill and Gio Gonzalez were in a battle for the A’s fifth starter spot.
Now that Justin Duchscherer is out for the season, Cahill has settled nicely into his spot at number four and now these two guys are pitching back-to-back.
Cahill pitched Thursday against the Angels and went a career-high eight innings. [...]

After getting swept by the Angels this weekend, the A’s are now riding a five-game losing streak and have scored a whopping total of five runs in those five games. That is the lowest total over a five-game span for the A’s since September 8-12, 1979. Those 1979 A’s lost 108 games.
These 2010 A’s are [...]

The A’s lost 4-0 to the Angels last night. Dallas Braden had to be perfect again and he wasn’t. As soon as Hideki Matsui launched that 3-run home run into the right field seats, we all knew this was was over.
So that means the A’s have scored two runs in the last three games! You [...]

Yesterday was May Day, and it was a good day for the A’s. They won, Gio Gonzalez pitched well, and new callup Josh Donaldson hit a 2-run home run in his first major league at bat.
But the past week has not been so kind to the A’s. If you had asked me who are the [...]

Justin Duchscherer is back.
Sure, this was his second start of the season, but this time he’s back, looking like his old self in the A’s 4-0 win over the Mariners yesterday.
He doesn’t throw hard and he doesn’t look sexy pitching, but he gets the job done. And he got the job done as well as [...]