Baseball is weird, guys. The A's ran James Paxton -- coming off of 23 scoreless innings -- out of the game after 4.1 innings. They sent out a pitcher who hadn't seen a major league batter since I was in the 7th grade. There were all kinds of weird errors NOT made by the A's, so that was weird in and of itself.
Jed Lowrie put on a nice little show with a double, single, and a couple slick plays at second. Ryon Healy added two singles, and double, and walk. Trevor Plouffe neared redemption with a three-run homer following strikeouts in his first three at-bats.