Nothing much went right for the Oakland A’s today, unless you count playing a role in another team’s hero origin story.
The A’s dropped an 8-4 decision to the Baltimore Orioles on a breezy Saturday afternoon at the Coliseum, and along the way they didn’t quite come together in any department. But they did watch one of their former farmhands continue his comeback tour in the majors.
If there’s one thing to take away from this game, it’s that Jesús Luzardo did not have the disastrous outing that his line suggests. The six runs he allowed in the 3rd inning were just as much a product of bad luck and shaky defense by his teammates behind him than anything else, although he didn’t entirely help his own case either — he wasn’t missing bats, uncorked a pair of wild pitches, and allowed a parade of contact that, while mostly not hard, wasn’t soft either.