Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
The Oakland A’s scored one run on six hits, and it wasn’t enough to win. The final result was a 3-1 loss to the Kansas City Royals in the opener of a road series at Kauffman Stadium.
The A’s have now dropped 22 of their past 26 games. In half of those losses, they scored either zero or one run. In 13 of the losses, they managed six or fewer hits. They’ve totaled 64 runs during this span, an average of 2.46 per game, dating back four weeks to the end of May.