A’s offense goes cold in 3-1 loss

Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY SportsAfter Wednesday's A’s game against the San Diego Padres resulted in 23 total runs and 30 total hits in a losing effort, Thursday's game against the Chicago Cubs was a complete 180. The A’s would score just one run while recording no extra-base hits in a day where pitchers led the way and the A’s dropped their second in a row, 3-1.

Pitchers Duel

JP Sears got the rock for the A’s to mark the fourth appearance of his impressive Spring, and he had glimpses of that continued brilliance on Thursday.

After allowing a single and RBI double to Seiya Sukuzi right out of the gate to give the Cubs a 1-0 lead, Sears settled down to retire the next nine straight batters quite…