One of the beauties of major league baseball is the relentlessness of the schedule. Whether a player is in a zone or in a slump, another game is coming the next day to keep it going or snap out of it. As a club, the Rangers snapped out of it Monday night at Oakland Coliseum. After being swept in a three-game series in Seattle, A.J. Griffin pitched a gem against his old club in his old stomping grounds.
He held the A’s to one hit and a walk over six scoreless innings, striking out eight and retiring the final 14 batters he faced.