Before the Oakland A’s final game of the regular season on Sunday, new third baseman Jake Lamb talked about how he hadn’t yet been tested in the Coliseum’s notoriously expansive foul territory. Per John Hickey of Sports Illustrated:
“I know how this works; I’m going to say I haven’t been tested about territory,” Lamb said Sunday morning in a video conference call. “And in the first inning today I’m going to get a popup in foul territory. ... Obviously I’ve noticed all this space, but I haven’t had a ball that I really had to bust for in foul territory.