NEW YORK — All was going according to plan for the A’s Saturday evening in New York after they jumped to a big early lead with Sean Manaea on the mound.
Manaea made it through the first five innings with little trouble, scattering three hits and an intentional walk. Until, in the sixth, the Mets stormed back to cut Oakland’s edge to one run — and leaving it up to the A’s reformulated bullpen to hold the edge.
The new-look relief unit could not: New York tied it in the eighth and won 6-5 on Wilmer Flores’ two-out homer off Simon Castro in the ninth.