The Oakland A’s opened a three-game series against the NL Central’s Chicago Cubs Monday at the Oakland Coliseum. The Cubs, (8-6) have won seven of their last ten games and took two of three from the Dodgers on the first half of the west coast road trip. Mother nature welcomed the ball club with a break from chilly Chicago weather with chilly for the bay temperature of 55 degrees but with 15 mph Chicagoland-type wind gusts.
Esteury Ruiz, who entered today’s game leading all American League rookies in batting average, hits, and doubles, led off the A’s half of the first with a base hit.