It’s been nearly 10 months since we’ve seen a live Oakland A’s baseball game, but that fast will finally be broken Monday evening when they take on the Giants in a preseason exhibition game. Sean Manaea will pitch for the A’s, against Kevin Gausman of San Francisco, as the two clubs tune up for their regular season openers later in the week.
But if you can’t wait that long to see the A’s in action, then here’s a sneak peek. Teams have mostly been playing intrasquad games against themselves during the past couple weeks of Summer Camp, in order to avoid interaction during the age of social distancing and the coronavirus pandemic, and Oakland (along with Matt Kawahara of the S.