With late inning excitement, the A’s salvage one of three this weekend. Today’s game yielded 11 hits and 8 runs with no errors. Tampa Bay picked up 7 hits on 2 runs with 2 errors (Cabrera and Loney).
A pitching dual with excellent balls/strikes calls from Crew Chief Dana Demuth gave way to the A's drawing first blood in the fourth inning at O.co. After Rays' RHP Odorizzi struck out Butler, Sogard, and Fuld in the third to retire the side—the A's blasted back with a Billy Burns leadoff triple. Burns took it into the right-center gap and ran so fast that he kicked up dust and shed his helmet somewhere between first and second.