Oakland Athletics: They Drop Yet Another Game

The Oakland Athletics have played well against the Texas Rangers this season. Tuesday night, they hit well, but Eric Surkamp could not get out of the third inning.

Once again, a starter for the Oakland Athletics left early. Once again, it became a bullpen game. Unfortunately, the bullpen was not as helpful as it could have been. Marc Rzepczynski allowed two inherited runners to score in the third. Rzepczynski walked Shin-Soo Choo to plate the seventh run charged to Surkamp.

The Oakland Athletics did come back to make a game of it. The bats came through in a three-run sixth inning, and they rallied hard in the bottom of the ninth. Josh Phegley came up with a big hit. Jed Lowrie had seemingly…