Category: Oakland A’s

  • Minnesota Twins 6 – Oakland Athletics 8

    Minnesota Twins 6 – Oakland Athletics 8

    Chris Herrmann’s first MLB hit? A grand slam! Game Recap | Box Score As a Montrealer who is used to massive concrete structures as a venue for baseball games, I feel a bit of sympathy for Oakland Athletics fans.  If we can forget Mount Davis for a second — which I realize it very hard…

  • Oakland A’s 1 – Toronto Blue Jays 7

    Oakland A’s 1 – Toronto Blue Jays 7

    Eric Sogard extends his hit streak to nine games Game Recap | Box Score Day two of the Vladimir Guerroro Jr. era is Toronto was a much more subdued affair thanks to a smaller crowd. While today’s defeat of Oakland by the Blue Jays was more convincing, the crowd didn’t enjoy the game as much as Friday’s…

  • Oakland A’s 2- Toronto Blue Jays 4

    Oakland A’s 2- Toronto Blue Jays 4

    Vladimir Guererro Jr. Debuts Game Recap | Box Score Once Blue Jays announced that Vladimir Guererro Jr. would be added to their roster and debut Friday, April 26th against the A’s, I knew that I had to be at that game. Everything about this young man life so far connects emotionally with this Montréaler. On…

  • Oakland Athletics 2 – Seattle Mariners 1

    Oakland Athletics 2 – Seattle Mariners 1

    Manaea outduels King Felix for the win Game Recap | Box Score With Sean Manaea sharp through seven innings of two-hit ball, all it took for the Athletics to beat King Felix in his house was one home run in the first by Jed Lowrie. Hernandez seemed rattled in the first, confused by an overturned baulk call which seemed to…

  • Oakland Athletics 8 – Seattle Mariners 10

    Oakland Athletics 8 – Seattle Mariners 10

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Oakland Atheltics 0 0 3 1 0 0 3 1 0 8 10 3 Seattle Mariners 0 3 2 0 3 1 1 0 x 10 17 0 6:13 pm: , Safeco Park, Seattle, WAStarting Pitchers: XXX vs. XXXAttendance: 29,013 | Time: 3:32Section…

  • Oakland Athletics 2 – Toronto Blue Jays 3

    Oakland Athletics 2 – Toronto Blue Jays 3

    Game Recap   |   Box Score Kendrys Morales, Walkoff Homerun With the Blue Jays hitting silent most of the game thanks to a solid pitching performance by Paul Blackburn, the A’s cruised into the bottom of the 9th with an almost certain win. Little did they know that Justin Smoak and Kendrys Morales would pull off back to back home runs to…

  • Oakland Athletics 1 – Toronto Blue Jays 3

    Oakland Athletics 1 – Toronto Blue Jays 3

      After spending a few days in Winnipeg as speaker and attendee of the Culture Days Congress, I decided to pass through Toronto for a few meeting (and Baseball games) before heading to Washington, DC to meet with a new client of ours. I could have gone home to Montreal for a day but I…

  • Tampa Bay Rays 0 – Oakland Athletics 4

    Tampa Bay Rays 0 – Oakland Athletics 4

    Perfect Game: Dallas Braden Game Recap | Box Score In front of just over 12,000 fans, yet another journeyman starting pitcher manages to produce one of the most unlikely feats in baseball, a perfect game. One of the sweetest things that I discovered about this game is that it was Mother’s Day, and Dallas’ grandmother, Peggy Lindsey was in…