The A’s came out on top of the Giants tonight, beating their cross-bay rivals in a close 2-0 win in what marks the second to last time these two will meet as cross-bay rivals.
Pitching Duel Early
With righty rookies Osvaldo Bido and Hayden Birdsong on the mound, you would be forgiven for expecting some offense in tonight’s game. Instead we had ourselves an old fashioned pitchers duel for the first half of this game. Neither rookie blinked as both matched each other for four innings tonight. All Oakland could manage was a Seth Brown single and a Darell Hernaiz walk against the Giants’ #2 prospect making just his ninth career start as a major league pitcher.