Tampa Bay sits 2.5 games atop the American League Wild Card standings, a definitive 8-2 win over the A’s on Sunday thickening that cushion under the throne.The A’s will settle for a series split against a team they’ll be hunting down as the 2019 season’s second half looms; the team had plenty of time to come to terms with a loss essentially sealed after the fourth inning.
“One of those days where what could go wrong, did go wrong,” Brett Anderson, the game’s starter, said.
Here are three takeaways.
Anderson’s clunker
It was clear to manager Bob Melvin out of the gate that Anderson didn’t have his best stuff.