Game Thread #48: A’s (sort of) at Tigers

Peter G. Aiken Happy Friday and welcome to a most unusual set of circumstances tonight, as part of a Friday night extravaganza that Nico dubbed the “quarter header”, the A’s need to make up three innings of game #48, nearly a hundred games ago, before they play game #141, which will finally stop our eyes from twitching when we think of the unresolved retroactive eleven game win streak should the A’s win, and finally after so many months, the game count will match the number of games played. Of course, with any luck, the A’s can drop a much needed September win into the playoff race bank.

It’s been a while, but we’re still not over the injustice of this game; needing only three outs to count…