To watch the A’s play defense this year is a study in the macabre.
With Friday’s four errors in a 12-7 loss to the Angels, Oakland has made 69 errors in 70 games and is on a pace for 160 errors this season.
It wouldn’t be a club record – from 1977-79, three of the worst clubs in Oakland history averaged 182 errors – and the 1982 team, the last of the Billy Martin “BillyBall’’ teams, committed 160 on the nose.
Still it’s been three decades since the A’s made that many, and this team, the numbers notwithstanding, should be better defensively than it is.