Game #128: A’s lose by one run, again

Neville E. Guard-USA TODAY Sports Thursday night was the same game we’ve been watching for the last two months. The Oakland A’s were right there but fell just barely short of a victory.

This time it was a 7-6 loss to the New York Yankees, opening a pivotal four-game series at the Coliseum. The Yankees scored the first six runs, then Oakland battled back to tie it, but New York found the plate once more in the 9th inning.

Since mid-June the A’s are 6-16 in one-run games. That stretch began at Yankees Stadium two months ago, with the infamous triple-play game, and since then Oakland has gone 26-30. Most recently they’ve lost five games in a row, and four of those defeats included either a blown…