What the two moments happen to have in common is Matt Olson.
Back on May 12th came a play that would be much discussed in the following months, though at the time it seemed to have no post-season implications as the A’s were trudging around .500 in what most believed to be a building-block year.
With a record of 19-19, the A’s came within, well, a thread of taking the lead against Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman when Jonathan Lucroy hit a fly ball to LF and Matt Olson tagged up. As I’m sure you know, Olson was called safe only to have the call overturned on replay.