Game #94: A’s Tear White Sox Apart

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ImagesYou would think from the 12-2 score that the A’s were scoring all throughout day and widening their lead as the sun approached the horizon. In reality, the A’s mounted two brutal assaults on the White Sox, the first of which put the game out-of-the-reach just as fans were finding their seats.

In the bottom of the first, after a mostly clean inning from Chris Bassitt, the A’s lineup strung together, by my calculations, about 20,000 hits. The first bunch of them came off of former A’s minor leaguer Dylan Covey.

Despite being a decent prospect in his early years, Covey hasn’t found much success since the Sox plucked him from Oakland in the 2016 Rule 5…