The A’s have managed to keep just one starting pitcher healthy all season, but there’s no telling if Sonny Gray will make his final start next week in Anaheim after beating the Giants 5-4 Friday.
Gray, troubled by a hip injury in his last start against Houston, gave up two runs in the first inning and kicked into gear after that. He said the hip pain flared up again in the fifth inning, and after pitching out of a jam in the sixth the A’s weren’t going to push it with their ace.
“I was pressing with my pitches in the sixth,’’ Gray said, singling out a battle with the Giants’ Marlon Byrd that resulted in a strikeout with men on second and third.