Leave it to a guy from SoCal to describe what’s happening with his team from NoCal.
“It’s tubular right now,” A’s pitcher Cole Irvin said.
The Oakland Athletics earned their 12th consecutive victory — the club’s longest winning streak in almost two decades — defeating the Baltimore Orioles 3-1 on Friday night.
Irvin, from Anaheim, California, took a shutout into the sixth inning to keep the A’s rolling.
Oakland’s string is its longest since it won a franchise-record 20 in a row in 2002. It is the Athletics’ third-longest winning streak since moving to Oakland in 1968, and is the longest in the majors since Houston’s 12-game run from June 6-18, 2018.