The game will be made up as part of a split doubleheader on Saturday. “They just got on us pretty quickly there, and scored some runs [and] we couldn’t battle back enough”. “Any time you’re playing a doubleheader, you hope you get deep in the games with your starters so you don’t pay the penalty for a long time”.
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After winning the opener to end a four-game skid, the A’s were looking for a sweep.
“You try to take each game individually and put whatever it was in the past, ” Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. According to oddsmakers at Bovada.lv, Oakland is favored on the road today, as the Athletics are getting odds of -115 to win, while the Orioles are getting a money line of +105 to win.
“The second game was so beneficial because I was so exhausted and tired already, that I didn’t try to do anything”, Reddick said. Among the many big Baltimore bats mired in a slump is slugging first baseman Chris Davis, who was 0-for-11 with six strikeouts in the Yankees series, and star center fielder Adam Jones, who was 1-for-11 in the set and hasn’t homered since April 16. 2016 hasn’t been all that great to Jimenez, what with his 5.20 ERA, 1.70 WHIP and 1-3 record across five starts and 27.2 total innings. He finished his outing by striking out the side. Zach Britton got three straight outs for his seventh save.
Wright fell victim to a flurry of soft singles in the Orioles’ 8-4 loss to the A’s in the afternoon game of the doubleheader, allowing five runs (four earned) on 10 hits – nine of them singles – over five-plus innings of work. Marcus Semien hit his team-leading eighth home run for the A’s, who had been the only major league team without a victory this month. Relying heavily on a sweeping curveball, the left-hander struck out five and permitted only one runner past first base over the first five innings.
The rainout of Friday’s game between the A’s and Orioles was interesting in that it stopped raining a little after the postponement was announced.
“It was just one of those days where the curveball was working and we were able to spot up some fastballs, ” he said. Several of the hits were opposite-field dribblers against the shift. Stephen Vogt hit a sacrifice fly in the third, Reddick doubled in a run in the fifth and Jed Lowrie hit a two-run double in the sixth.
Athletics: Right-hander Andrew Triggs was added to the roster for the nightcap. The Orioles recalled INF Paul Janish from Triple-A Norfolk.
The rain that had forced the doubleheader was forecast to return, but after some early ominous clouds, the game was mostly played in the sun in front of a sparse crowd of 15,110. WALK THIS WAY Triggs struck out the side in the eighth inning – then started walking toward the wrong dugout.
“I thought it was starting to get there”, Davis said.
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Athletics: OF Coco Crisp returned to the lineup after being sidelined since Tuesday with a heel injury.
