Happy Monday, Athletics Nation!
The weekend started off promisingly enough. The A’s jumped ahead in the Twins series with a late comeback win on Friday and had scored five or more runs in three of their past four games. Having been swept through four games in Minneapolis last week, the A’s were well positioned to get revenge at the Coliseum.
Sadly, the bats went flat as the weekend got into full swing. The A’s had just four hits in Saturday’s 10-2 rout. It may have been just as well that they save their energy for Sunday, given the catastrophic eight-run outing of just 1u2153 innings that JP Sears had—his second rough go against the Twins in as many weeks.