The Oakland A’s lineup finally has a couple of hot hitters, but perhaps not the ones we were expecting.
The A’s cruised to a 5-1 victory over the division-leading Houston Astros on Friday at Minute Maid Park, with all five runs driven in by a pair of bats from the bottom half of the lineup.
Of course, holding the mighty Astros to just one run is impressive in its own right, and Oakland’s pitching staff achieved that with a quality start from the rotation and then scoreless work from four relievers. But the story of the A’s season has been their inability to score, and on this evening they overcame that obstacle to post a pair of crooked numbers on offense.