OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Oakland Athletics are dropping and throwing away the ball at a staggering rate.
The A's committed five errors in the first three innings of a 9-0 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Monday night to become the first team in 29 years with at least 13 fielding miscues in the first five games of the season.
"I wish I had an answer for the defense right now," Kotsay said. "They're going to have to get better. That's just all there is to it. These first five games, if you told me we were going to play as bad defensively as this, I would have said you're dead wrong.