Like a good ol’ childhood friend who runs up and switches off the Nintendo 64 before you can officially cross the finish line and kick their butt at Mario Kart, the A’s took whatever steps necessary to make sure that none of their baserunners ever had a chance to step on home plate.
Alex Bregman was probably one of those types of kids.
The A’s had ducks on the pond in nearly every inning, but the team couldn’t take advantage regardless against a struggling starter in Colin McHugh. In the first inning, a park-aided ground-rule double off of the bat of Marcus Semien was erased on a Semien baserunning blunder.