The Oakland Coliseum has been the most extreme pitcher’s park in baseball this year. Both the A’s and their opponents are struggling to make anything happen in its cavernous expanses, especially in terms of hitting homers, and nobody has been able to consistently score there. Well, almost nobody.
One team is having a field day on Rickey Henderson Field, and that’s the reigning champion Astros. Not only are they finding success in Oakland, they’re actually hitting better there than anywhere else.
First, the raw numbers. The A’s and Astros have played nine games so far in 2018, with six coming at the Coliseum.