More than four hours before the first pitch in the Coliseum Friday, Khris Davis was giving the A’s a new look.
He was in the batting cage at home plate, but the right-handed batter was in the left-handed batter’s box as batting coach Darren Bush was flipping baseballs to him from behind a screen about 15 feet away.
Davis was taking his right-handed swing, so that the end of his bat was just inches from the netting of the batting cage. He had pitch after pitch flipped to him, and Davis worked on keeping from extending too much and tried to deliver a short but powerful swing.