OAKLAND — Even the hottest team in baseball can have a bad day.
For the A’s, things went wrong from the first pitch on Wednesday afternoon.
Shin-Soo Choo homered to left off starter Edwin Jackson to open the game and things never got much better for the A’s, who lost 4-2 to the Texas Rangers in front of 13,139 fans on the final day of what was otherwise a sparkling homestand.
Jackson, who was 4-2 with a 2.58 earned run average in 10 starts since being signed as a free agent by Oakland in late June, was gone by the fifth inning, trailing 4-0.