Tyler Clippard went to the Mets on Monday, Scott Kazmir to Houston on Thursday.
"It can be a cloudy day," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "You could see that when the Kazmir day transpired, and we've had two more since then, so to be able to go out there and give the team a good feeling after what was a rough day for everybody, you can't say you expect it out of him, but you get used to games like he pitched today."
"No matter who is out there, who is in the clubhouse, who's not, when the game starts, you have your 25 guys out there and you're just trying to win a baseball game," Gray said.