SAN FRANCISCO -- The A's usual late-inning shenanigans were missing in Friday night's 7-1 loss to the Giants at AT&T Park.
Instead, their neighbors mimicked them in the Bay Bridge Series opener, pouncing for five runs in a disastrous seventh inning after the A's squandered their own opportunity in the top half of the frame.
With it went a chance to gain on the Mariners, who fell to the Rockies on Friday, in the American League Wild Card race. The A's remain five games back of their division foes after suffering just their sixth loss in their last 25 games.