The Oakland A’s are doing just enough to not quite win games.
Their two-week slump continued Friday night with a 3-2 loss against the Boston Red Sox. The A’s managed to catch up in the late innings, but couldn’t quite push over the top to steal a victory.
Oakland got a pair of homers from their lineup, and lots of defensive highlights, and effectively a quality start from their rotation, and scoreless relief from their bullpen through the end of the 9th inning. But all that got them was a ticket to extra innings, where Boston needed only one pitch to score their bonus runner in the top of the 10th while the A’s saw their own auto-runner thrown out at home plate in the bottom half.