The Colorado Rockies took Game 1 of this brief two-game series, 8-3, Tuesday night in Oakland.
Here are some takeaways.
Give the bullpen a breather, get a big league debut
The A’s bullpen’s streak of near perfect pitching came to an end. Something had to give, and it came at the expense of a big league debut.
As Chris Bassitt succinctly put it, the bullpen “has been nai. . .