Game #83: A’s beat Blue Jays 5-3

The A’s won on Tuesday night at the Coliseum, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 in the second game of the series.

Their rookie starting pitcher bounced back from a rough previous outing and was solid for five innings while the offense jumped all over an erratic Seattle starter and worked five walks in the first three frames. That helps explain how the A’s won this game while getting outhit 10-4. Isn’t baseball interesting?

A pair of walks to leadoff the game from Nick Allen and Ramon Laureano helped the A’s jump on Seattle starting pitcher Yusei Kikiuchi early. Christian Bethancourt put a good swing on a 1-2 pitch and lined it up the middle to bring in the first run of the game for the good…