Game #99: A’s hand winning run to Mariners

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images This was almost an awesome play by KempTalk about throwing away a game.

The Oakland A’s uncorked a five wild pitches Friday night, tying their franchise record, and in the process they handed the winning run to the Seattle Mariners in a 4-3 defeat at T-Mobile Park.

The game was tied entering the 7th inning, and it’s baffling that it ended the way it did. In the top half the A’s loaded the bases but struck out to strand them, and then in the bottom half the Mariners did almost nothing but somehow scored.

With two outs on the board, Dylan Moore barely made contact and hit a dribbler toward second base. But he hit it so weakly that it was basically a hard bunt,…