Well that went better than expected. The A's went down early, with a 3-0 deficit in the 3rd, but they came back. And when they came back, they didn't almost do so by tying it and then losing later on; they came all the way back and won in the late innings, 4-3 against the Astros in Houston. This is the kind of game the A's haven't won this year, a one-run affair featuring a blown save. This was refreshing.
Perhaps it is not a surprise, then, that it was a couple of relatively new characters doing the heavy lifting.