OAKLAND –- The A’s problems began Friday with another rough outing for Sonny Gray.
They certainly didn’t end there.
Sloppy defense combined with an uninspired night at the plate to help produce an 8-3 defeat to the New York Yankees that was much uglier than the final score indicated.
It was one of the A’s poorest overall games of 2016, and the polar opposite of the caliber of play that marked their three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers to begin this homestand. Since then, the A’s have dropped the first two of this four-game series against the Yankees, who reside in the American League East cellar and arrived in Oakland with a 5-12 road record.