ANAHEIM, Calif. — The 100-win Yankees got what they wanted, the home wild-card game.
The 97-win A’s may have gotten what they needed, the road wild-card game.
On the road the A’s hit better than any team in baseball. They are first in OPS with a .797 mark, first in slugging at .464, first in home runs with 133, first in runs (439) and second in batting average (.263) and third in on-base percentage (.332).
“We just called ourselves Road Dogs early in the year, and it kind of stuck,’’ slugger Khris Davis told the Post Saturday night of the A’s approach to road success before hitting his major-league leading 48th home run of the year, a two-run shot to right in the first inning in the A’s 5-2 victory at Angel Stadium.