Somewhere toward the middle of Saturday’s game, some tape measures broke trying to keep up with the monstrous homers the A’s were belting at the Coliseum.
Mark Canha smoked a solo shot out to left, 453 feet from home plate, to open the fifth inning. Two batters later, Khris Davis crushed a 429-foot homer to center. And with one on and two outs, Chad Pinder hit one of the longest drives in the history of the building, certainly post-Mt. Davis, which went up in 1996: He put a two-run moonshot into the plaza reserved level above the suits in center field, an area only three other balls have landed, according to the A’s.