The A’s took four-of-five against the Houston Astros with a 3-1 win Thursday afternoon. The win moved the A’s 6.5 games ahead of the Astros for first place in the American League West with 18 games remaining in the regular season.
Sean Manaea followed up his strongest start of the season against the mighty San Diego Padres with an even more dominant one against the Astros.
Manaea was perfect through his first five innings before Josh Reddick interrupted with a double down the first base line to le. .