OAKLAND — In a home stand where the A’s had been battered and bruised for the most part, they closed it out showing they still have some fight left in them.
After a furious late comeback to tie the game, Jonathan Lucroy finished the job with the bases loaded in the 11th inning by crushing a pitch from Eduardo Paredes off the wall in center field for a walk-off single in Sunday’s 6-5 extra-inning victory over the Los Angeles Angels in front of 21,217 fans at the Coliseum.
It was the A’s second consecutive win over the Angels to give them the series victory, and it came after a brutal three-game sweep at the hands of the Houston Astros earlier in the week, and gives the A’s some confidence as the head to San Diego for the start of a three-city, 10-game road trip.