The A’s head into the All-Star break looking forward to more than a mini-vacation. They have a reason to play the rest of the season.
“Absolutely,” second baseman Jed Lowrie said. “We have our eyes on the prize and I think we have the talent to be a playoff contender.”
The A’s beat the Giants 6-2 on Sunday, their 21st victory in their past 27 games, best mark in the majors over that stretch. They have the fifth-best record in the American League and trail the slumping Seattle Mariners by just three games in the race for the second wild card playoff spot.