Another dissapointing loss again making it their 7th loss in a row. I can’t help, but wonder if they caught the “Giants bug” from across the bay to cause these series of losses.
In all seriousness, the A’s are quickly losing time to get their act together. Right after the All-star break is when you set the tone for the rest of the season.
It seems like the prognosis for the rest of this season for Harden doesn’t look too bright to me, since these symptoms are a flareup from his earlier time on the DL. With the A’s losing record they really don’t have a lot of time left in the season to be able to handle all these injuries. Let’s hope they manage to work around it somehow and continue to play good baseball.
Yes, Thomas is back in Oakland…. to play as a Blue Jay of course! A’s were in lead 2-1 until the 3rd inning when Frank Thomas came in and hit a grounder to score a runner from scoring position to tie the game. This seemed to be a catalyst and turned the inning into a multipe-run inning.
Denardo was kicked out of the game after 3rd inning one out. The A’s had a couple times where it looked like they were going to come back, but the Blue Jays kept on tacking more runs in. A’s lost 11 to 7.
I’m sure a lot of fans are wondering if Thomas had been in the A’s uniform if they would have lost this game. Well it was mostly bad pitching from denardo, but it did seem like Thomas got the ball rolling with the game tying hit.
I think it’s possible that Dan harren may get the 2007 A.L Cy Young award this year. He has the best E.R.A in the majors. He so far has not had any game with more then 3 runs allowed, the true definition of an ace in my opinion. His win to loss ratio is excellent at 9-2. He has done this all with a full half season with 17 Game starts and 3rd on most innings pitched for the American League.
If he continues to do what he has been doing, heck even 90% of what he is doing for the rest of the season, he will get the CY Young award.
With the 2007 MLB All star game coming to San Francisco AT&T ballpark it’s especially important Bay area people vote this year.
You only have until June 28th to vote online. You can vote up to 25 times.
Oakland Athletics won 6-0 against the Giants at AT&T ballpark. The second time Zito faces his old team he pitches poorly. Bonds who wasn’t supposed to be in the game was only among 2 players to get at least one hit with Harren’s shutout. A’s now lead series 2-0 and have won 4 out of 5 games this season against the Giants.
Next game is on sunday at 1:00 PST.
One of the best games the Oakland Athletics have had this year last night at McCafee Park in Oakland.
In the 9th Inning the game was tied 4-4 with the bases loaded. With a strike out and a risky double play involving home plate the A’s were able to get out of it.
In the 10th inning Ellis hit a single to complete a cycle. Only the 6th player in Oakland history to get a cycle. After another hit Chavez came into bat. With a crack of the bat Chavez ends the game with a right field home run, it was his first walk off home run of his career.
Oakland plays Boston again tonight at 7:05 Pacific.
Two time CY-Young winner Santana couldn’t stop the Minnesota Twins from making a fielding error in an inning that in the end led to the A’s scoring 3 runs. Athletics won the game at McCafee stadium 4 to 2. A’s win the series against Minnesota Twins 2-1.
Next game is 7:05 pacific Time on Fox Sports network on monday. Haren will be starting for the Oakland A’s against Tavarez of the Boston Red Sox.
Oakland Athletics created a 5 run lead early in the game by the 3rd inning. In the 8th the Rangers made their presence known when they loaded up the bases on zero outs. A couple runs scored making the game 5-3 with bases loaded. Sammy Sosa had the day off, but was put in to bat with the bases loaded.
So did Sosa hit #599 and give the Rangers the lead? No, Sosa in the end struck out. It was a reminder of he is definitely no barry bonds in these situations. Bond usually gets on base through a walk or hit or at least puts the ball in play. Sorry Sammy, you’ll have to wait another day for 599.
The Oakland Athletics won the game 5-3.
This week Milton Bradley (15 day DL), justin Duchscherer (15 DL), and Mark Kotsay (60 day DL) are due to be off the list this week. This is great news as the Oakland Athletics have suffered an enormous amount of players on the DL (19 out of 40).
Hopefully this trend will continue until very few players are on the DL. It’s hard to keep a winning team when a lot of your players are on the DL even if they are replaced, because often they are replaced by not as good of players.
