It was a huge day for the Oakland Athletics offense, but the A's bullpen picked entirely the wrong day to have a bad day, and Dae-ho Lee picked a heck of a day to double his career home run totals.
Oakland's bullpen came into Wednesday's game with the third best ERA in the league at 2.46. But despite Bob Melvin's efforts to get the bullpen some rest before the club's 16th consecutive day of play, today's bullpen proved incapable of preserving a hard-won 8-4 lead. A's relievers conceded two in the sixth and three in the seventh as the A's lost to the Mariners 9-8.