NEW YORK – The wreck that is the Oakland defense rose up and smacked the A’s hard Sunday in a 9-5 loss to the Yankees.
A’s starter Andrew Triggs gave up six runs. Five of them were unearned, and you can make a case that all of those runs could have been denied the Yankees with better defense. That’s a matter for stat geeks, however, because all the runs counted and led to the A’s losing the series and falling to 1-7 in series played on the road.
The major blow in the game came from Aaron Judge, a NorCal product the A’s drafted out of high school with their 31st-round pick in 2010.