Each Sunday, take a look back on the most important moments in the Oakland Athletics’ organization with This Week in History:
This Week in A’s History Chavez showed great plate discipline, as he was known to do, when he evened the count at 1-1 after taking a called strike for the first pitch.
On this date exactly fifteen years ago, a 22-year-old Eric Chavez stepped to the plate with two down in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Athletics were leading the Orioles 8-2 and had the game under control, but this at-bat was quite possibly the biggest at-bat so far in the young career of the A’s third baseman.