SAN FRANCISCO — Jeremy Bleich waited more than a decade to make his Major League debut. He’ll need to activate his pitcher’s memory to forget it.
After getting recalled from Triple-A Nashville earlier in the day, the A’s reliever finally stepped onto a Major League mound with the bases loaded in the seventh. Bleich faced two batters, surrendering a double to Steven Duggar that brought in two runs, tipping the scale in a 7-1 Giants win in the opening game of the Bay Bridge series at AT&T Park.
The Stanford product pitched for 15 minor league teams in a 10-year span before he earned a shot in the big leagues with the A’s by posting a 3.