The A's got single runs in the 3rd through 8th innings last night and buoyed through a late inning faltering of Mark Mulder and Jim Mecir to get a 6-3 win.
The win was the A's 14th in a row and tied an Oakland team record set way back in 1988 when Milli Vanilli was blaming things on the rain.
David Justice collected 3 hits and may have put thoughts of retirement on the shelf.
Greg Myers tweaked his hamstring last night and the A's may consider calling up a catcher from Sacramento. The most likely candidate is Cody McKay, son of former A's coach Dave McKay. McKay is an organizational soldier and at 28 is two years older than Ramon Hernandez. Myers said that the twinge was just a cramp, which makes sense, he hadn't caught more than a single inning in more than two weeks.
Ray Durham smacked a solo homerun in the 3rd that went 15 feet beyond the wall in left. Chuck Knoblauch trailed the ball and eventually slammed into the wall in his best Wyle E Coyote, painted railroad tunnel on the side of a mountain, impression. If you want to look at Knoblauch's career as that play, it works. It looked like he had a play on the ball the way he trailed it, but never really did, and ran in the wall out of stupidity and not inability. Knoblauch left the game after the play.
Terrence Long was moved into the two hole in the batting order and went 2 for 4 at the plate. Is this a long term plan?
No.
Scott Hatteberg got the day off and Art Howe has been tinkering with the lineup the last few days after winning 12 straight with the same lineup. At this point, Art could pencil in Brandon Buckley in the leadoff spot and the A's would still get six runs and 10 hits.
The 12 hits the A's collected ended a streak of six consecutive games with exactly 14 hits. Trivial, yes, but interesting in a statistical variance sort of way.
The A's have at least 10 hits in their last seven games.
The win was the A's 14th in a row and tied an Oakland team record set way back in 1988 when Milli Vanilli was blaming things on the rain.
David Justice collected 3 hits and may have put thoughts of retirement on the shelf.
Greg Myers tweaked his hamstring last night and the A's may consider calling up a catcher from Sacramento. The most likely candidate is Cody McKay, son of former A's coach Dave McKay. McKay is an organizational soldier and at 28 is two years older than Ramon Hernandez. Myers said that the twinge was just a cramp, which makes sense, he hadn't caught more than a single inning in more than two weeks.
Ray Durham smacked a solo homerun in the 3rd that went 15 feet beyond the wall in left. Chuck Knoblauch trailed the ball and eventually slammed into the wall in his best Wyle E Coyote, painted railroad tunnel on the side of a mountain, impression. If you want to look at Knoblauch's career as that play, it works. It looked like he had a play on the ball the way he trailed it, but never really did, and ran in the wall out of stupidity and not inability. Knoblauch left the game after the play.
Terrence Long was moved into the two hole in the batting order and went 2 for 4 at the plate. Is this a long term plan?
No.
Scott Hatteberg got the day off and Art Howe has been tinkering with the lineup the last few days after winning 12 straight with the same lineup. At this point, Art could pencil in Brandon Buckley in the leadoff spot and the A's would still get six runs and 10 hits.
The 12 hits the A's collected ended a streak of six consecutive games with exactly 14 hits. Trivial, yes, but interesting in a statistical variance sort of way.
The A's have at least 10 hits in their last seven games.
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