And it was a pitch that got away really cost the Oakland Athletics. In seven innings, he allowed four hits and three earned runs, but gave up two long home runs in the process. Soon after that, the A’s were trailing.
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“That was all on me”, Hendriks said. “I hung some pitches and that’s what hurt us”.
“Just frustrating from where I’m at”, Manaea said.
Maxwell said he and Astros batter Alex Bregman were both surprised by the wild pitch, which came with baserunner George Springer at third.
Catcher Bruce Maxwell chased the ball to the backstop and made a desperation throw to first, but Bregman beat the throw by a step as Springer scored. Entering Tuesday, his eight wins since June 23 were tied for third most in the American League, and while the Astros bested him with a pair of home runs from Colby Rasmus and Evan Gattis, Graveman showed again that he just might be turning a developmental corner.
Before dropping the series opener against the Houston Astros on Monday night, the Oakland Athletics had caught a glimmer of hope with consecutive series victories over postseason contenders Cleveland and St. Louis.
Detwiler gave up three hits and struck out seven. Graveman has issued two or fewer walks in each of his last nine turns and 14 of his last 15.McHugh defeated Pittsburgh in his last start after going 0-4 over his previous five turns.
“It’s good, he’s going to drive in like 100 runs in (each of) the next five years”, Altuve said. “It’s a shame we weren’t able to pull this one off for him”.
– With Wendle coming up from Nashville, the Sounds got a replacement in shortstop Franklin Barreto, who is widely seen as the best shortstop prospect in the Oakland organization. They did a good job of neutralizing our offense, and you get that feeling that you need to keep it where it’s at. Danny Valencia has hit McHugh well, he is 6-for-17 with two doubles and a home run. “It’s a tough game and it’s always tough to win on the road”.
Michael Feliz (8-1) pitched a scoreless eighth.
Ken Giles worked through the A’s in the top of the ninth to close out Oakland’s 76th loss against 57 wins.
“We got extra opportunities in the second, obviously got the two runs on a couple errors and a couple walks but Altuve’s homer obviously was a big tack-on run”, Hinch said.
Manaea allowed two unearned runs and one hit with four strikeouts.
“This is a guy that we felt like when we made the trade (with the Blue Jays on November 28, 2014) had a high ceiling”, Athletics manager Bob Melvin said. “A team that’s in our position, we’re trying to look at younger players as well as try to keep our veteran guys in the lineup enough to keep them happy too”. In his major league debut, he went 0 for 4 and scored a run.
I think he made that either right before or right after that, so that was in my opinion, the play of the game. “Just missed the curveball in the right-center field gap when he flew out there”. “I thought he was pitching fine”.
Manaea left Monday’s start against the Houston Astros in the bottom of the fourth inning, and is being called day-to-day with what amounts to a sore back.
– Lefty starter Sean Manaea won’t make his next scheduled start Sunday, that going instead to Kendall Graveman.
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Athletics: RHP Andrew Triggs (1-1, 4.39 ERA) takes the mound against Boston on Friday.
