The Athletics dropped the second game of the series against the Giants, losing 1-0 and splitting what is likely the final Bay Bridge Series. Would have been nice to end on a high note but what can you do?
We had ourselves a good ol’ fashioned pitching duel today. The A’s turned to veteran Ross Stripling hoping to secure the 2-game sweep over the cross-bay rival Giants. San Francisco countered with arguably their best pitcher in Logan Webb, who finished second in NL Cy Young voting last season but has been much more average this year.
Oakland looked like they might get the scoring started early as they collected two singles in the very first inning to set up runners at the corners with just one out.