Programming note: A’s-Tigers coverage starts today at 3:30 p.m. with A’s Pregame Live on CSN California (Channel locations)
TORONTO — As the setting changes, the A’s challenge remains the same.
Each stop on this three-city road trip brings an opponent with a fearsome middle of the lineup. That leaves a big challenge for an Oakland pitching staff that got knocked around over the final two games of a weekend series against the Blue Jays.
Now the scene shifts to Comerica Park in Detroit, where the A’s start a four-game series Monday against a Tigers team that brings the thunder in the heart of the order.