Somewhere toward the middle of Saturday’s game, some tape measures broke trying to keep up with the monstrous homers the A’s were belting.
Mark Canha smoked a solo shot out to left, 453 feet from home plate, to open the fifth inning. Two batters later, Khris Davis crushed a 429-foot homer to center. And with one on and two outs, Chad Pinder hit one of the two longest drives by an A’s player in the history of the building, certainly post-Mount Davis, which went up in 1996: He put a two-run moonshot into the plaza reserved level above the suits in center field.