The freshest memories of Oakland Athletics bullpen collapses are from earlier this month. On June 7th, the A’s took a 4-0 lead into the bottom of the eighth in Boston. Kendall Graveman watched his beauty of a start disappear as the bullpen surrendered six of the seven Red Sox runs from that inning. More recently, the A’s watched a 7-2 lead against the Los Angeles Angels evaporate in a catastrophic eight-run seventh on June 19th.
Evan Scribner was one of the pieces involved in both of these collapses.
In Boston, Graveman had just given up a solo home run, making it a 4-1 game.