The A's needed every one of the fourteen hits they racked up today, plus their best starting pitching and bullpen options to best the Blue Jays in Toronto, as they win a thrilling opening game to the weekend series, by the final score of 8-5.
Be honest. There were probably multiple times in this game, possibly at 4-0, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 when you had trouble imagining how exactly the A's would turn this one into a one-run game. Be real honest. But you were pretty sure it would get that way somehow, right? It doesn't exactly take a nervous A's fan or a seer to know that no lead is safe in a park like Toronto, especially going up against a lineup like the Blue Jays, so at some point, you expected all of those unscored runs from the feast of the early innings to come back and haunt the A's like so many ex-relationships.