OAKLAND — A new dad couldn’t make a 3-0 lead stand up and the Oakland A’s offense went cold in an 11-3 loss to the Texas Rangers on Thursday night.
Home after a tough seven-game road trip against division leaders Minnesota and Houston, the A’s figured to have the edge against a Rangers team that had dropped nine of 10.
They staked Brett Anderson to a three-run lead in the first and he held Texas scoreless for four innings.
But three days after his wife delivered their first child, Anderson ran into trouble in the fifth.