Tokyo Dome is 5,138 miles away from the Oakland Coliseum. It was in this far off land that the A’s and Mariners first locked horns to open the 2019 baseball season. What we knew after that opening series from “The Land of the Rising Sun” was that Ichiro was officially retiring, the A’s had been swept by Seattle and Matt Olson was looking at surgery and a lengthy rehab. Five months and 96 games later, the A’s season is looking much brighter then it did when they left Tokyo in mid-March. They come into today’s game against the Mariners riding a five game winning streak, tied for the second wild card spot and welcoming a new starting pitcher to the team this afternoon in one David Dewitt Bailey, Jr.
Game #97: A’s vs. Mariners
