“I felt really good. That was the one mistake I made that inning”, Doolittle said. He was trying to calm me down as well out there, try not to get too hot when things started rolling for the other team a little bit. It didn’t get there.
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“I felt like I had swing-and-miss stuff”, Doolittle said. His ERA climbed to 7.98 for the spring, but the good news is he walked just four in 14 2/3 innings. It was Oakland’s second straight one-run defeat after leading the majors in that category previous year. Jose Abreu followed with a double, putting Rollins on third and the Sox on the verge of blowing the game open. “I’m disgusted with myself”. Adam Eaton hit an RBI triple and Oakland native Jimmy Rollins drove in a run in his White Sox debut.
Rollins, an Oakland-area native who said he had a couple of big games at the Coliseum when he was in high school, drew noticeable cheers from his home crowd.
The A’s had tied the game in the eighth inning with two runs against Zach Duke, who allowed an infield single to Josh Reddick, and Nate Jones, who hit two batters and allowed a two-run single to Yonder Alonso. “That’s a tough at-bat”. Instead of taking a sure out at first, Lowrie made the aggressive play to second. Chris Sale gave up three runs in seven frames to earn the win. “They feed off of it. You just have to take that into consideration and try to not get overwhelmed”. Chris Bassitt will fill in if he needs more time. Frazier ripped the second one for his three-run homer, the first of the year in the Coliseum.
“Even though it’s only two, it’s character-building wins”, Frazier said. He’s willing to put the blame on a 24-hour flu. Graveman, who is down to start Thursday’s series finale with the White Sox, is at this point expected to make the start.
The flu, or whatever it is, situation is grave enough that the club had a brief pregame meeting to address ways to stay healthy. “Maybe it isn’t so insane”. Gray agreed, saying “you can see there are lot more hand sanitizers around the clubhouse now”. “We still realize this was going to be a process, one which hopefully here in the coming months is coming to an end as we take that next step”. Gray was able to join the team at the stadium later on in the day Monday after being released from the hospital and managed to play some catch, which led the team to give him the nod for Wednesday’s contest. “It’s been improving. I should be OK soon, I hope”.
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The power of the Oakland Athletics’ offseason additions was on display in a losing effort Tuesday night. 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. It’s looking increasingly more likely that lefty Eric Surkamp will get the start over right-hander Jesse Hahn. UMPIRE REPORT: Dan Bellino will be handling home plate duties on Wednesday evening in Oakland.
