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A’s down to their Fab Five in rotation and hope to keep it that way

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SAN FRANCISCO — When it comes to high profile injuries and the Bay Area sporting landscape, the Athletics barely register when measured against the Madison Bumgarner-Stephen Curry disasters facing the Giants and Warriors.

But that doesn’t mean A’s manager Bob Melvin isn’t without a sense of dread, given that he’s down to five healthy starting pitchers for a five-man starting rotation.

Not much room for error there as the A’s visited the Giants Monday night at AT&T Park.

“That’s probably the one area that we were maybe not as apt to handle, and that’s why the last couple of games, you want to bubble-wrap these guys, hoping nothing happens, and you get into the season with no more injuries,” Melvin said.