There were many close ones they couldn’t quite pull out. “That’s just kind of what we thought it was”. Each side scored all of their runs in the third, with Jose Abreu and Jimmy Rollins scoring on a wild pitch to give Chicago a four-run lead. The first batter of the year, Adam Eaton, was hit by a Rich Hill pitch then was thrown out a little while later when he got into a rundown between first and second. He set a franchise record with 274 strikeouts last season and the team puts a lot of hope for a successful season on his shoulders. The Athletics got some offence from veteran Jed Lowrie on Tuesday as he drove in two runs. Two of those, John Axford and Ryan Madson, threw scoreless innings Monday, while returners Ryan Dull, Fernando Rodriguez and Sean Doolittle combined to allow two hits in 4 1/3 innings. His three-run shot in the fifth inning off A’s left-hander Chris Bassitt gave Chicago a 3-1 lead.
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Chicago White Sox’s Hector Sanchez is tagged out at home plate by San Diego Padres catcher Christian Bethancourt while trying to score on infield grounder hit by Tyler Saladino in the ninth inning of an exhibition baseball game Saturday, April 2, 2016, in San Diego.
“Even though it’s only two, it’s character-building wins”, Frazier said. “Held it together, and thankfully we got out of it”. Lowrie drew a leadoff walk in the eighth and advanced when Zach Duke came in and induced Josh Reddick’s groundout before Nate Jones got the final two outs of the inning.
“We got it done”.
“Let’s be honest, Sonny wasn’t very happy when I told him in the hospital that he wasn’t pitching today”, Paparesta said.
Those ready for an opening-day matchup between Sale and Athletics pitcher Sonny Gray were disappointed Monday. He pitched 208.2 innings in 31 starts. Hill, who struggled through an abysmal spring training, couldn’t make it through the third inning and left the game with the A’s trailing 4-0. Hill, 36, made his fifth start in the past seven years, including four last year with the Red Sox.
The A’s are counting on their revamped bullpen to back the starters after Oakland went a majors-worst 19-35 in one-run games a year ago.
The White Sox were mere minutes removed from their first big downer of the season. Jackson walked and reached third on Hill’s throwing error. “Vomiting and everything.”. A’s RHP Kendall Graveman contracted the flu Monday but is expected to start Thursday against Chicago, Oakland manager Bob Melvin said.
“Antsy is probably a decent way of describing most all of us around the club the last few years”, Hahn said. Before the 4 he made at the end of 2015 he had not made one since 2009.
The A’s took the field wearing jerseys with patches for two members of the 1989 World Series championship team who died recently, Dave Henderson and Tony Phillips.
Henderson died in late December at age 57, and Phillips passed away in February at 56.
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