Elephant Rumblings: Rough weekend for A’s pitching staff
A’s Coverage:
- Hall: Athletics fall 8-2 to Rays in series finale...
- Gallegos: A’s take the measure of themselves after split...
- Kawahara: A’s drop series finale to Rays, 8-2...
- Poindexter: A’s week in review — Solid work on the field is tempered by gloomy news off of it... ($)
- Kawahara: Side issue halts A’s left-hander Sean Manaea’s rehab...
- Slusser: A’s need starters just as Marco Estrada begins working way back...
- Tafur: Plug and play — With closer Blake Treinen out, A’s turn the job over to Liam Hendriks... ($)
Best of AN:
- Baker-Gillman: Game #80 — SundA’s Bloody SundA’s...
- Iversen: Oakland A’s place Blake Treinen on injured list, recall Brian Schlitter...
- Hall: Oakland A’s pitcher Frankie Montas suspended 80 games for drug violation...
- Nico: Blogfather Picks Wrong Week To Stop Sniffing Glue...
- Hall: Oakland A’s prospect watch — Sheldon Neuse going ham in Triple-A...
- Hall: Finn the Bat Dog is the Most Valuable Pup of the Triple-A Las Vegas Aviators...
- Fatrolf’s Sunday Sketches: If Life Is A Box of Chocolates Edition...
MLB News:
- Randhawa: Here are the finalists for All-Star Starters Election...
- Collier: Nationals release reliever Trevor Rosenthal...
- Lennon: Newsday’s Tim Healey explains incident with Mets manager Mickey Callaway...
- Toribio: Rays place righty Diego Castillo on IL with right shoulder inflammation...
- Heyman: Twins sign righty Cody Allen to minor league deal...
- Bowman: Braves option struggling starter Mike Foltynewicz to Triple-A...
- Keri: The 30 — The Yankees make another heist, a quandary in Oakland and the Astros’ reasons for optimism... ($)
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Stark: The Useless Info Dept., Dude, Where’s My Coors? Edition... ($)
- Szymborski: The ZiPS (Almost) Midseason Update — American League...
- Clemens: Do Hard Throwers Allow Fewer Home Runs per Fly Ball?
- Gammons: Revisiting the trade deadline that changed baseball forever... ($)
- Lindbergh: Mike Trout’s Consistently Great, and the Angels Are Consistently .500...
- Callahan: Introducing aRBI+...
Today in Baseball History:
- 1953 — The Braves sign 17-year-old Joey Jay from Middletown, Connecticut, making him the first Little League player to make it to the major leagues.
- 1984 — Oakland’s Joe Morgan hits his 265th career home run as a second baseman, breaking Rogers Hornsby’s major-league record for that position. Morgan, who has 267 home runs overall, connects off Frank Tanana in the 1st inning of the A’s 4 - 2 win over Texas.
Best of Twitter:
- Somehow, teams still haven’t learned...
Are you or a loved one thinking about running on Ramón Laureano?
— Cut4 (@Cut4) June 22, 2019
DISCLAIMER: pic.twitter.com/3qrcNDI0b4
- One of the highlights of Friday’s Bark at the Park night...
To the fan who dressed her dog to look like a hot dog...all I can say is: amazing! pic.twitter.com/4PSuSNoce1
— A's Hot Dog Vendor (@ashotdog) June 22, 2019
- This is pretty neat...
As promised here are some more cool photographs of the @RingCentralColi / @OracleArena (Oakland Coliseum) complex being built. To the best of my knowledge these have never been seen before. pic.twitter.com/4JE0zWlvk8
— brandon (@BHOAK510) June 23, 2019