The Oakland A’s lost again.
They scored some runs this time! Six of them! But it wasn’t quite enough, as they dropped an 8-6 decision to the Seattle Mariners on Thursday to open a long series at T-Mobile Park.
The Mariners led for most of the evening, but there were some moments when the A’s made things interesting. After going down 4-1 early, the green-and-gold tied it up in the 5th inning with a clutch homer! But then Seattle scored four more in the bottom of the frame to retake the lead. Oakland picked up a run in each of the 8th and 9th innings to narrow the gap, but in the end they were doomed by their combined 17 runners left on base.