The Oakland A’s finally put some runners on base in front of their homers.
Both teams went deep three times Tuesday night at Comerica Park, but two of Oakland’s dingers came with runners on while the Detroit Tigers settled for three solo shots. The A’s also added a few more rallies to their power display, and came out on top 9-3 in the opener of a three-game series.
Entering today, 20 of Oakland’s last 22 homers had come with nobody on base, a particularly painful inefficiency given the number of close games they’ve played lately. They got to work early changing that trend.