Happy Friday, Athletics Nation!
The A’s seemed to be turning a corner a couple of weeks ago when they went on a seven game winning streak, improving to 19-50 in the process. But they’ve lost eight straight since then despite signs of improvement from their starting pitchers. The skid has returned the A’s back to last place in all of baseball with a .247 winning percentage. Ouch.
Five of these eight games were lost by a single run. The A’s lost close ones to the Guardians on Tuesday and Wednesday, in large part due to some embarrassing defensive miscues late in those games, like this epic bungle from Wednesday:
Become ungovernable on the base paths.