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Photo by Daniel Shirey/Getty Images The Oakland A’s pitching staff got knocked around last night, and the hits kept coming today in the trainer’s room. The A’s placed Jesús Luzardo and J.B. Wendelken on the 10-day injured list Sunday morning, the team announced. The diagnoses are a fractured left hand for Luzardo, and a strained left oblique for Wendelken. The pair combined to allow all eight runs the Baltimore Orioles scored in an 8-4 loss the previous day. Luzardo’s injury occurred before the game, in which he was tagged for six runs (three earned) in three innings. He was playin...

Harvey wins third start in row, Orioles beat sloppy A's Matt Harvey won his third straight start and the Baltimore Orioles took advantage of Oakland's sloppy play to score six runs in the third inning Saturday in an 8-4 win over the Athletics. The Canadian Press Matt Harvey , The Canadian Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Matt Harvey won his third straight start and the Baltimore Orioles took advantage of Oakland's sloppy play to score six runs in the third inning Saturday in an 8-4 win over the Athletics. The Athletics made two errors and threw a pair of w...

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The Oakland A’s got to add a 27th player to their active roster yesterday to help with their doubleheader, but that means someone has to go down today to reduce the roster back to 26. That odd player out is reliever Jordan Weems, who was optioned to the alternate site, the team announced Wednesday morning. Usually when a team adds the extra player for a doubleheader, they do so by calling someone up from the minors and then sending the same player down at the end of the day, but the A’s took a different path this time. On Tuesday they simply act...

A's slug, pitch past Tigers for 7th straight win Matt Olson, Aramís García and Mark Canha each homered and the Oakland Athletics shut out the Detroit Tigers for a second straight game, 7-0 on Saturday for their seventh win in a row. The Canadian Press Elvis Andrus , The Canadian Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Superstitious manager Bob Melvin ditched his in-game candy habit during Oakland's awful start. Now that things have drastically trended upward, Melvin is sticking with a couple of favourite, lucky pens and specific parking places for now. He doesn...

Detroit takes 3-game slide into matchup with Oakland April 18, 2021 By The Associated Press Detroit Tigers (6-9) vs. Oakland Athletics (8-7) Oakland, California; Sunday, 4:07 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Matthew Boyd (2-1, 1.86 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 14 strikeouts) Athletics: Chris Bassitt (1-2, 4.96 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, 11 strikeouts) FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Athletics -141, Tigers +122; over/under is 8 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers enter the matchup as losers of their last three games. The Athletics went 22-10 at home in 2020. Oakland hit 71 total home runs and averaged 7.2 hit...