There won't be October baseball in Oakland this year, but the A's do have a couple of postseason series to enjoy. The Double-A Midland RockHounds are attempting to defend their 2014 Texas League championship, and the High-A Stockton Ports are looking for their first California League title since 2008.
The RockHounds won their game against the Corpus Christi Hooks (Astros) on Friday, giving Midland a 2-1 lead in their best-of-5 series. However, the Ports lost a 15-inning winner-take-all game to the San Jose Giants, thus eliminating Stockton from the postseason. If you want an analogy for that, it was like losing Game 5 of the ALDS to a third-place team in the style of the 2014 Wild Card game but against the Giants.