On the positive side, few people saw it.
The A’s struggling offense was close to rock bottom Wednesday night at the Coliseum, where the smallest crowd in 15 years watched three Tampa Bay pitchers combine on a one-hitter in Oakland’s 6-0 loss.
Playing before an announced bundled-up gathering of 6,705, the A’s were a Jed Lowrie single from getting no-hit for the first time since 1991.
Making matters worse, a pitcher making his first start since a second Tommy John surgery threw hitless ball for six innings. Nathan Eovaldi hadn’t pitched since Aug. 10, 2016, but he appeared in midseason form.