A win is a win, but man, that was an exhausting win.
After Mike Fiers — who arrived with one of the weirdest (greatest?) facial hairdos of all time — was pulled in the second inning due to what they’re calling “right arm nerve irritation”, I thought the A’s were going to get blown out. Call me a pessimist, but the A’s bullpen is simply not built to carry that kind of load. On an average day, the team can barely patch together enough relievers to get through the last three innings of a game, let alone the last seven.