"Him and (Tommy Edman) have both been good leading off," manager Mike Shildt said. "So we're putting him at the top and we like what we're seeing with the at-bats. It is going to be somewhat fluid. We'd like to have that consistency of what we see in the offense in the offense but those guys are giving us good at-bats, that's all you can really ask."
"Clearly not a road trip we felt great about in results," Shildt said. "Really just didn't play well enough to win in Oakland. Ran into a very disciplined team that we helped out a little bit too much with free passes and weren't able to counter that with a lot of offense.