With the MLB All-star game, a week from tonight, the Athletics kicked off their next to last series before the break against the Atlanta Braves. Jeffrey Springs took the mound for the A’s tonight at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento against Didier Fuentes for the Braves.
The game started with two bangs in the opposite extreme. Lawrence Butler rapped an inside-the-park homer on the first pitch of the bottom of the first.
The next loud noise was Fuentes nailing A’s all-star shortstop Jacob Wilson right on the wrist with the very next pitch.