It was 22 games into the 2016 season that Billy Butler drove in his first run for the A’s.
As Oakland prepares to play its 30th game of the season Friday night in Camden Yards against the Orioles, he has three RBI. Three.
Needless to say, that’s not what the A’s were hoping for when they signed him as a free agent two years ago and nothing at all like what Butler expects from himself.
It’s becomes a little easier to swallow in that two of the three RBI have come against former Cy Young Award winners Justin Verlander and Felix Hernandez.