Athletics Nation · Jun 18, 2017
Game #68: A’s Leave Yanks Feeling Blue
Neville E. Guard-USA TODAY SportsFor most all of this season, when it has rained on the A’s, it has poured. If the offense was crushing the ball in one game, the starting pitching would get knocked around as well. If the starting pitching was keeping the other team at bay, the bullpen would find a way to let the opponents back into the game. If both pitching and hitting were in sync with each other, the most embarrassing defense in the MLB would rear its ugly head. The A’s need perfection, to be firing on all cylinders, in order to have a hope and a prayer against the toughest competition, and today, against the first place Yankees, the A’s were anything but perfection. They won 5-2.