In baseball there’s always another record to set or statistical feat to accomplish, and Matt Chapman is the kind of player who will probably be at the center of a lot of those over the years. He came up with one on Monday.
Facing the Angels in Anaheim, Chapman homered in his first two at-bats, and then added a bases-clearing triple to top off his day — all within the first four innings. That combination of hits has been collected only once before by an Oakland A’s player, Mitchell Page back in 1977.
Overall, including the club’s days in Philadelphia and Kansas City, Chapman is the eighth A’s player ever to do it in franchise history, and the first to drive in six runs along the way.