To have any shot this season — which begins Monday night at the Coliseum against the Angels — the A’s will have to roll out their pre-Bay Bridge Series offensive approach rather than the meek attack they showed against the Giants.
Oakland scored only four runs in the three losses to the Giants, but before that, the A’s were putting together big innings with regularity, a real difference from last season when Oakland finished at the bottom of the heap in on-base percentage. During the Cactus League portion of the schedule, the A’s had an on-base percentage of .