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  • Athletics defeat Pirates-Sweep Complete

    The Oakland Athletics wrapped up a three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates this afternoon at the Oakland Coliseum. The teams started the day with identical records; 14-17. Manager Mark Kotsay sent winless 34-year-old righty Ross Stripling to the mound for this matchup against Quinn Priester for the Bucs. Switch-hitting Abraham Toro got the scoring started with a line-drive homer to straight away center field in the bottom of the second inning. Tyler Nevin extended his hit streak to nine...

  • Oakland A’s news: A’s build momentum with third straight win

    Happy Wednesday, Athletics Nation! What happens when you add a bit of offense to your excellent defense? You start winning games in bunches. The A’s put up a second straight five spot against the Pirates last night to win their third straight game. The A’s are now 13-11 since getting off to an awful start this season with a 1-6 homestand. The A’s bullpen, buoyed by rising stars Mason Miller and Lucas Erceg, has been turning heads throughout April, and Jason Burke at SI.com rightly points to the...

  • Rooker’s clutch doubles, strong pitching win it for Oakland in extras

    The Oakland Athletics don’t seem to have the capacity to score more than 3 runs in a game but it hasn’t mattered much with the way the team is pitching. Today, the A’s only needed 4 pitchers in 10 innings to keep the now 16-9 Baltimore Orioles at bay. Starting with a vintage Ross Stripling outing — 5 2⁄3 innings with 2 earned runs, 3 Ks and 0 BBs — and closing with an increasingly vintage dominant inning from Mason Miller, the pitching staff is somehow proving itself to be a huge strength, maybe...

  • Elephant Rumblings: Mason Miller might be the best closer in the game already

    The Oakland Athletics snapped a three-game losing streak Monday with a 2-0 win over the New York Yankees. JP Sears turned in another great start and Zack Gelof’s two-run home run in the ninth was the difference. Mason Miller slammed the door in the ninth to pick up his fifth save of the season in electric fashion striking out Anthony Volpe, Juan Soto and Aaron Judge. The often injured Miller was moved into a relief role by the A’s for the 2024 season in hopes that he could build innings and...

  • A’s vs. Guardians game thread

    The Oakland A’s finally lost a series. After handling a triplet of teams that included the reigning champion Texas Rangers, the A’s let the St. Louis Cardinals take 2 out of 3 earlier this week. They’ll hope to regain some of their unlikely momentum by getting some revenge on Steven Vogt’s Cleveland Guardians, who squashed the A’s for the first 3 games of the season. Guiding the A’s from the mound will be rookie Joe Boyle, who has a 5.68 ERA but has been wildly effective his last two times out....