After so much went wrong for the A’s in last night’s defeat, the team needed to bounce back and play its best ball with spot starter Chris Smith, making his first career start, taking the hill. And like it has on so few occasions all year, just about everything went right for Oakland as the team excelled on all fronts in what wound up being a nail-biter of a game.
Going up against twenty three years old rookie Andrew Moore, who made the first start of his big league career just a little more than a week ago, the A’s bats were quiet until Ryon Healy reached base on a hard single on the ground to center field to lead off the second inning.