In a heart-attack inducing ending, Edward Mujica, the closer for some reason, managed to strand the tying run on 3rd after a couple of very loud flyball outs and a balk. That was really the theme of the game; numerous mistakes, miscues, and bad pitches never really came back to bite the A's.
But the 2015 A's never win these types of games. That's reason enough to celebrate and ignore the things that went wrong. The A's actually won an imperfect, close game. That might be more on the Astros than the Athletics, but I'm certainly not complaining.