When your team’s bullpen has blown late leads a stunning 6h time in the last 19 games, it’s hard to think about anything else. Yet the reality is that yesterday’s loss left Oakland all of 2 games back of even the first wild-card when looking at the all-important loss column.
Your first instinct, when seeing that, is to ponder how if the A’s had just put half of those games in the win column. they would be sitting pretty in the Wild Card standings instead of looking up at three teams, and they would be just three games out of first place in the AL West.