OAKLAND — Matt Olson thought he had a walk off homer a couple of days ago that ended up bouncing off the wall in an extra-inning loss. He made sure that didn’t happen two games in a row.
After an exhilarating comeback in the ninth to get the game to extras, Olson took Tony Sipp to a full count before unloading on a slider. He knew this one was gone, and even took a few seconds to admire it as it went over the right field wall and sent the electric crows at the Coliseum into a frenzy as the A’s walked it off in the tenth for a 4-3 victory over the Astros, keeping their hopes of overtaking Houston for first place in the American League West this weekend alive.