As the A’s get set to play a three game set on the road against the Boston Red Sox, the baseball world will be gazing longingly at Cleveland. Cleveland has come very close to tying Oakland’s record for most consecutive games won during the regular season, sitting at nineteen and needing just one more win to match the A’s. To see the glorious white elephant replaced atop the record books by a racist caricature of a group of people most entirely exterminated by the same types of folks who claim to be honoring them would be a travesty. But the A’s have been streaking recently, as well, winners of five straight including a four game sweep of the division leading Astros (who, thanks to the combined efforts of Oakland and Cleveland, no longer have the best record in the American League), and so technically there is still a chance for the A’s to rattle of a twenty-one game win streak (or more!
Athletics at Red Sox: Bradley , Betts, Battlestar Galactica
