Hooooooooooooooollllllllllly cannoooooooooooooli what a win by the A’s! It was as if innings 1-8 were the A’s in the playoffs from 2000 - 2014, with every failure represented in a microcosm, and then came inning 9. The ghost of Eric Byrnes Ramon Laureano seemed to be thrown out after a weird play at home after Nick Martini smoked one of only three real hits of the game, and then the call was...OVERTURNED! It was OVERTURNED! And there wasn’t anyone, including the Astros, who didn’t know that when the game went to extras, the A’s were going to win.
And then they did, with the very first batter of extra innings, as Matt Olson teed up a 3-2 fastball for his first career walk-off home run as he won the game, brimming with the confidence of a player who has just put his team exactly one game behind the Division lead.