Following the 19-inning marathon played between the Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels Monday night, a few A’s regulars found their immediate status in question after suffering injuries and being removed from the game. Coco Crisp strained his hamstring and was removed from the game in the 14th inning and Chris Young exited in the 16th inning with a strained more »
Offseason Depth Moves Paying Off Early For Oakland, Yoenis Cespedes on 15-Day DL
Once again Billy Beane has shown the foresight that places him among the best executives in baseball annually. The trade to send Chris Carter to the Houston Astros for Jed Lowrie paid instant dividends in spring training when Hiro Nakajima struggled and eventually landed on the disabled list to start the season. Now the move to add Chris Young to more »
Crisp Homers and A’s Take Game One Versus the Mariners
Welcome back Coco Crisp! Crisp led off his first game in ten days with a home run, Drew would add a two run home run of his own and the A’ broke it open with a four run seventh inning to defeat the Mariners 8-2. This is what baseball is all about people. With six games to play the A’s more »
After 4-6 Road Trip, The A’s Head Back to Oakland To Face Mariners
The A’s are finally back home after a grueling stretch of playing 17 of 20 on the road. They played well enough over that stretch to remain two games up on the Angels and Rays for the final wild card spot. So the A’s can finally take a breathe… Alright, break over. Wasn’t that nice? The A’s may be in more »
Oakland A’s Injury Round Up
The trade deadline came and went with no moves from the Athletics. However, the A’s will be adding from within soon enough as more than a few guys look to come off the Disabled List over the next two weeks. Here is a look at the A’s current injury situation. Coco Crisp took some swings in the batting cages more »
Michael Choice’s Hand Injury Clouds His Bright Future
When Chris Carter became a promising fixture in the Athletics’ lineup, that automatically made powerful outfield prospect Michael Choice the number one prize in the organization’s minor league system of affiliates. Unfortunately for the A’s and the young outfielder, Choice is going to be shut down for the remainder of the 2012 season after suffering a fractured hand in the more »
Josh Reddick’s 13th Inning Double Breaks Up Pitching Dual, Pushes A’s Back to .500
The Oakland A’s and Seattle Mariners turned back the clock to 1955 Sunday afternoon when the two teams faced off in the first half finale at the Oakland Coliseum. Fans were treated to a 1955 Oakland Oaks cap and a rendition of the National Anthem by an Elvis impersonator before they watched the A’s and Mariners battle it out on more »
Oakland A’s: Coco Crisp Providing Veteran Leadership at Right Time
With a relatively young ball club, you need a veteran presence to stabilize the team and keep things together. To an extent, this would be the responsibility of the manager. Oakland A’s skipper Bob Melvin has done a nice job of keeping a young team debilitated with injuries stay right in the thick of things in the American League. What more »
A’s VS Giants Game 2: 3 Keys for Madison Bumgarner Against the A’s Offense
The Giants will look to keep some of the energy going after last night’s game winning four run ninth inning. Lefty, Madison Bumgarner (8-4) will take the ball, in hopes to shutdown a hot A’s lineup. He will oppose Tyson Ross (2-6), who was just called up for today’s game. Also, expect centerfielder, Angel Pagan to be slotted in the more »
Yoenis Cespedes at Designated Hitter Opens Options for Oakland A’s
Prior to Friday night’s series opener against the San Francisco Giants, A’s manager Bob Melvin discussed using his star rookie, Yoenis Cespedes, at the designated hitter position while he recovers from a sore hamstring. Cespedes is currently limited to DH’ing to avoid the risk of him re-aggravating the injury chasing down a ball in the outfield. He has gone 3-for-8 more »
