SEATTLE — A gold-clad King’s Court crowd seeped into the half-full T-Mobile Park stands. It was Felix Hernandez’s final start for the Seattle Mariners, for 2019 and possibly forever.
Hernandez tormented the A’s throughout his career; his 26 wins against Oakland is his best against any of them. The crowd stayed the same but Hernandez, on his last toe, would not be a torment. He gave up three runs, on Matt Olson’s RBI single and Matt Chapman’s two-run homer (his 36th of the year), in the A’s 3-1 win on Thursday night.
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