HOUSTON — A raging forest fire isn’t easy to extinguish. And the A’s happened to catch the Houston Astros on a tear through dry brush.
Houston was fresh off a 21-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Sunday with the type of heat that singed into Monday’s matchup against Oakland, and all the A’s could throw at their fire was some spit.
The last time Mike Fiers faced the Astros he allowed four home runs. It was a moonshot frenzy that the A’s outlasted by one run back on a rare hot, dry night in Oakland. Fiers was hard on himself despite the win and the conditions.