The announced crowd of 10,292 — let’s say 7,000 — came to the A’s game bored with the idea of watching the Warriors roll to another win on television. Fans came to see the Oakland baseball club try for a third-straight walk-off win Monday night.
And they were rewarded, when Jed Lowrie sent a change-up deep into the right-field bleachers with two outs in the 11th inning Monday night, his second homer of the evening, giving the A’s a 3-2 win over the Angels.
“Momentum carries over,” Lowrie said. “Coming to the ballpark is more fun, after you do this two, now three times.