The Oakland A’s bullpen worked overtime Tuesday night, after starting pitcher Chris Bassitt was seriously injured and had to leave early.
It was difficult to take the rest of the baseball game seriously after watching one of the players get carted away to the hospital, and there wasn’t much to see anyway as the Chicago White Sox cruised to a 9-0 victory. But that blowout margin did have one interesting result.
In the bottom of the 8th inning, with the home team leading comfortably and likely coming up for the last time that night, the A’s gave their pitching staff a break and called on a position player instead.