OAKLAND — Chad Pinder slammed his bat against the dirt near home plate in frustration after swinging through a 1-2 slider from Blake Snell for strike three to end the sixth inning with Jed Lowrie on third base. That’s just the way things are going for the A’s offense these days.
A shake up of the lineup didn’t help as the A’s continued to struggle without slugger Khris Davis available in a 4-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays Tuesday night in front of just 7,521 fans at the Coliseum.
Pinder’s inability to bring home Lowrie from third in the sixth wasn’t even the most frustrating failure of the night.