The A’s thought they’d gotten Billy Burns on base on catcher’s interference in the eighth inning Wednesday, but they couldn’t get the call.
Manager Bob Melvin asked the umpiring crew to have a look at the non-call by home plate umpire Adrian Johnson.
Melvin said he was told that the call wasn’t on the list of plays that are reviewable, but he was hoping that third base umpire Jim Wolf would have seen things their way. He didn’t.
Burns lost his bat swinging at the pitch from Sam Freeman of the Rangers, but Oakland’s contention was that catcher Robinson Chirinos’s glove hit the bat, which is defined as catcher’s interference with the batter awarded first base.