What’s the definition of irony? The Oakland A’s can’t score any runs this year, and nobody can seem to score much against them, except for during their action-packed games against the Seattle Mariners.
The two sides played another wild one Tuesday, and this time the A’s came out on top 7-5 in a seesaw affair at T-Mobile Park.
Entering this series, Oakland had scored 24 runs over their previous 10 games. They’d allowed 48 during that span, but remove a couple aberrant blowouts and that figure drops to 25 runs in eight games. Meanwhile, over the past couple decades the average A’s/Mariners game has finished with a score of roughly one to negative-one, a perpetually sleepy matchup between two clubs with an uncanny ability to shut each other down.