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Athletics' Joey Estes, 22, fires 5-hit shutout vs. Angels
Joey Estes pitched a five-hit shutout as the Oakland Athletics made it two in a row over the visiting Los Angeles Angels with a 5-0 victory Wednesday night.,Estes, at age 22 years and 269 days, became the youngest major-leaguer to throw a shutout since Zach Eflin accomplished the feat for the Philad...
After avoiding an injury scare, Angels take on Athletics
Zach Neto is expected to be in the starting lineup Monday when the Los Angeles Angels begin a three-game series against the Oakland A's in Anaheim, Calif.,Neto hurt his left calf on Saturday against the Dodgers, first when he fouled a ball off his lower leg, and then later in the game when trying to...
Twins' even-keeled approach paying off vs. Athletics
Minnesota Twins manager Rocco Baldelli appreciates his team's even-keeled demeanor.,If the Twins are winning, they don't get overconfident. If they're losing, they don't panic.,Baldelli will look for his players to maintain the same approach when they play against the Oakland Athletics on Saturday a...
Max Kepler knocks in four as Twins outlast A's in 10
Max Kepler belted a three-run homer in the sixth inning and hit a walk-off RBI single in the 10th to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 6-5 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Friday in Minneapolis.,Kepler finished 3-for-4 for the Twins, who have won the first two games of the four-game series and thre...
Twins hope Carlos Correa stays hot vs. Athletics
Carlos Correa is feeling reflective amid one of the hottest stretches of his career.,The veteran shortstop has eight hits in his past two games. He is batting .404 (21-for-52) with two homers and 16 RBIs in his past 13 games.,"I'm glad it's here with the Minnesota Twins," Correa said. "Ever since I ...
With bats heating up, Rays take on Athletics
The Tampa Bay Rays' slumbering offense woke up with a flurry of extra-base hits Wednesday. ,Tampa Bay will look to keep it up Thursday afternoon in the series finale against the Oakland Athletics in St. Petersburg, Fla.,Struggling to a 2-6 mark on a nine-game homestand, the Rays will go for the seri...
A's activate Aledmys Diaz from 60-day IL
The Oakland Athletics activated third baseman Aledmys Diaz from the 60-day injured list Tuesday, while third baseman Tyler Nevin was designated for assignment.,Diaz, 33, has been on the IL since the start of the season with a strained right calf. He batted .229 with four home runs and 24 RBIs for th...
Rays put 'all-encompassing' struggles up against A's
The Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays meet for the first time this season Tuesday night at the start of a three-game series at St. Petersburg, Fla., that matches a pair of clubs trending in opposite directions.,In Oakland's 112-loss campaign in 2023, not much went right on or off the field. This ...
A's place RHP Ross Stripling (elbow) on 15-day IL
The Oakland Athletics placed right-hander Ross Stripling on the 15-day injured list Saturday with an elbow strain and selected the contract of left-hander Jack O'Loughlin from Triple-A Las Vegas.,To make room on the 40-man roster for O'Loughlin, right-hander Brandon Bielak was designated for assignm...
Abraham Toro's clutch homer lifts Athletics past Rockies
Abraham Toro led off the eighth inning with a tiebreaking home run to help the Oakland Athletics beat the visiting Colorado Rockies 5-4 in the opener of a three-game series Tuesday night.,J.D. Davis and Seth Brown also homered for the A's, who ended an eight-game losing streak.,Ezequiel Tovar homere...
A's activate LHP Scott Alexander from IL
The Oakland Athletics activated left-hander Scott Alexander from the injured list Tuesday and optioned right-hander Tyler Ferguson to Triple-A Las Vegas.,Alexander, 34, opened the season on the 15-day IL with a left rib contusion and began a minor league rehab assignment May 3.,Entering his first se...
A's place RHP Paul Blackburn (foot) on 15-day IL
The Oakland Athletics placed right-hander Paul Blackburn on the 15-day injured list Monday with a right foot injury and recalled left-hander Easton Lucas from Triple-A Las Vegas.,Blackburn, 30, was diagnosed with a stress reaction in his fifth metatarsal. His IL move is retroactive to Saturday.,The ...
The Oakland A’s want to build the Sydney Opera House
Leave it to the A’s and John Fisher to be three months late on the renderings for a ballpark that still feels like it has a better chance of being built in Narnia than it does in Vegas, and then to have it leak out a day after they meant it to:...
The push to block the Oakland A's relocation continues
The Oakland Athletics move to Las Vegas is no closer to completion, as the Nevada State Education Association (NESA) is preparing to file an injunction to block the $380 million in public funds for the A’s, on the grounds that it is unconstitutional....
Notoriously cheap owner has to pay for A's to leave Oakland
The Oakland Athletics are about to pay more than their entire 2022 payroll just to leave Oakland....
MLB owners approve team that they will soon hate
It has been said by many more talented and knowledgeable people than me that the biggest problem with MLB owners is all they see is the next dollar, not the five farther down the line they could have, much less the next win. Oh sure, there are exceptions. Philadelphia’s John Middleton seems to get i...
Rob Manfred perpetuates the stereotype of Rob Manfred
I don’t want to speak for an entire fanbase here, but I’m 99.99999 percent confident when I say Rob Manfred can take his sympathy for Oakland A’s fans and shove it up his (redacted) until his (redacted) are popping out of his (redacted). Go (redacted) yourself, you (redacted) lying heap of (redacted...
The least Rob Manfred could do is leave the Athletics name in Oakland
I don’t like to be fatalist, or wave a white flag to unchecked capitalism. I want to believe, at some point, that the fans’ voice matters. That the runaway chase for profits and growth that ignores and bulldozes everything around it eventually crashes into a wall. And certainly, Oakland A’s fans’ vo...
The Oakland A's can't draw fans, yet get stadium deal hinged on attendance approved
It won’t be that much of a shock that the Oakland A’s were able to wait out the Nevada State Senate and get approval for their grift of a stadium deal. It still has to go through the House, but we know how politicians like to roll over on these things no matter what their constituents think. As Geor...