The Oakland Athletics are making a convincing pitch in April that they’re an actually competent baseball team. They may have lost today to the Washington Nationals, but they’ve still won 5 of their last 7 and have a chance to take their third series in a row tomorrow.
The A’s pitching staff in particular has been on a flaming hot streak, riding it into today’s game and holding their April ERA at a genuinely impressive 2.88 mark. That’s good for fifth-highest in the league this month!
Today, the effort was led by rookie starter Joe Boyle, whose command looked shaky in the first few innings and recalled concerns about his consistency.