Mid-Week Notes After A Roller Coaster Ride Of A Big Win

If you can’t do better than whiff 3 times with the bases loaded and nobody out, what can you do? Apparently, win the game the next inning. 25 years ago the A’s celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a rollicking 17-16 loss but in 2025 fortunes smiled just enough for the A’s to slink away 1 game out of 1st place and 4 games north of .500.

Here are some thoughts as the A’s prepare for game 2 of a telling 12-game stretch against the Mariners, Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants...

Bullpen

The bullpen’s depth has been much tested of late and the depth has come up huge. Grant Holman would be considered the #4 reliever out of the pen and he has twice gone 2 innings with only a bloop RBI hit standing in the way of 4…