And just like that, the Oakland A’s are already back at the .500 mark.
After opening their 2021 season with six straight losses, it didn’t even take another two weeks for the A’s to erase their slow start from the standings. They finished flipping the script Friday night with their sixth straight win, a 3-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers, making them just the third team in MLB history ever to have streaks of six wins and six losses within their first 14 games of a year.
The story begins and ends with pitching.