Players’ Weekend came and went in a disappointing thud, but the week prior was the kind of A’s baseball we dream about: Taking down the Astros 3 out of 4, then turning around and sweeping the red hot Goliaths, the New York Yankees. Blips like this weekend are frustrating, but you trip, and you get up again. You’re not going to win them all, but it’s crunch time, and there’s no better time than now to use bitter defeat as a spark to the fire and push past.
At the start of the week, it was a four-game set against the Astros, of which the A’s took three.