OAKLAND — It may have looked more like a prizefight than a baseball game, with the A’s getting out-slugged by the Houston Astros on Sunday.
The two teams combined for eight home runs, with A’s pitchers allowing five in a 9-4 loss to the Astros to fall out of a first place tie in the American League West.
Matt Chapman and Khris Davis both homered in the first and Davis added another in the third, his 36th of the season, to briefly tie the game 4-4.
Still, an A’s pitching staff — that had been largely rock solid for the last two months — took it on the chin from the defending World Series champions before an announced crowd of 29,143 at the Coliseum.