SEATTLE — Two home runs of two very different varieties, hit two batters apart and landed within feet of each other. Both tacked two runs on the board and put the A’s in a hole they would not climb out of in a 6-3 loss to the Mariners.
Starting pitcher Chris Bassitt was cruising through three innings. Daniel Vogelbach changed that — slowly — then Kyle Seager added on — very fast.
Vogelbach hammered the first pitch he saw from Bassitt in the fourth inning. When the ball came down after nearly seven seconds of hang time, it had landed midway up the seats in right field and Seattle had answered two early runs from the A’s.