ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Is there a good living to be made in finding new ways to lose baseball games? The A’s, 5-4 losers to Tampa Bay Sunday, seem be working under that premise.
After blowing leads of 3-0 and 4-3, Oakland’s inability to play baseball the way baseball is supposed to be played cropped up again in the seventh inning.
This time around it was an inability to defend against a bunt that did the A’s in. Tampa center fielder Mallex Smith was just trying to get something started for in a 4-4 game in the seventh inning.