Oakland dropped the middle game off the series to the Nationals, losing 5-1 to Washington on Wednesday evening.
The starting pitching was strong early but came apart in the fifth, and the bats never got going except for a solo homer in the second.
Oakland struck first tonight, and it was one of the rookies who came through. After hitting his first career MLB home run yesterday, first baseman Dermis Garcia swatted his second, a solo shot in the top of the second to give the A’s an early lead:
There was this cool little tidbit about that blast:
Dermis Garcia's 467-foot blast is tied for the A's sixth-longest home run in the StatCast era (since 2015) and longest since Seth Brown's 472-foot homer last season.