Given everything that is going on around the Oakland Athletics’ franchise, it is hard to focus on the on field product. The A’s fell to 4-17 Saturday night with an embarrassing blow out loss to the Texas Rangers. For some perspective, the game ended with Jace Peterson on the mound and he allowed the least amount of runs of any of the four total pitchers that the A’s used in the game.
Shintaro Fujinami started Saturday and was ineffective again allowing seven hits and eight runs in just 2 1/3 innings. Fujinami was coming off his best start of the season where he allowed three runs in six innings against the Mets.