The A’s took a hard but still encouraging loss to the Royals on Saturday. Already down by four runs after two innings, the A’s were able to come back scoring four runs of their own, one in third, fourth, seventh and eight innings, respectively.
On the day it was announced that A’s closer Blake Treinen was the Reliever of the Month for the month of May, another, unexpected, A’s reliever ended up taking the loss. And the same Royals reliever Tim Hill, ended up with both a blown save and the win thanks to a ninth inning solo shot off of Jorge Soler in the bottom of the ninth.