For today’s affair, the A’s once again handily defeated their rivals across the bay in an all around strong effort on both sides of the baseball, stars and scrubs alike.
Unusually, the same starters from the contest for each team were slated to take the mound in the rematch between the two rivals, as Kendall Graveman was set to take the mound against Jeff Samardzija. In the first game between the A’s and Giants, Graveman was able to get the best of Samardzija as he pitched a scoreless inning in which he was forced to navigate out of a minor two-out jam, whereas Samardzija was in trouble early and often in his one inning versus the A’s, in which Matt Joyce hit a homerun and Khris Davis scored after working a walk.