Новости за 02.04.2019

You may not believe this, but every atom in your body

has been shared with some other living thing that

slithered, crawled or walked on this planet in the

past. This is to reference the rather inescapable

truth that all living beings are a reiteration of a

previous living being.

Consider an asteroid sailing towards our Earth 66

million years ago. At that moment, Earth was a hot,

wet, carboniferous planet filled to the brim with

living beings. Читать дальше...

A’s Coverage:

• Hall: Aaron Brooks outduels David Price, Oakland A’s blank Boston Red Sox 7-0...
• Gallegos: Ramón Laureano’s bat, arm back Aaron Brooks’ gem in A’s win over Red Sox...
• Shea: Contract extensions all the rage, but will A’s join the party?
• Gallegos: With heavy hearts, persistent anxiousness, Venezuelan ballplayers carry on...

Best of AN:

• Raun-Linde: Game #7 - A’s Pound Price 7-0...
• Hall: 5 Best parts of Oakland... Читать дальше...

So I returned to my car after Sunday's game and was greeted by vandalized paint. I think something had been poured on my car. At first I thought the paint damage had come from a fire, but considering the lack of residue on the ground, absence of any smoky smell and the presence of a smell more like a cleaning liquid, I think it was something deliberately poured on it.

It’s been a fast and furious first (true) five days to start the 2019 MLB season.

Khris Davis is the only player in baseball to hit 40 home runs and drive in 100 runs in each of the past three seasons, and the first A’s player since Jimmie Foxx from 1932-1934.

As he continues his amazing stretch of completely demolishing baseballs at Oakland Coliseum and wherever the hell else he chooses, let’s track each of his home runs this season.

1: Game one, third inning off Marco Gonzalez, 405 center field, two-run, closed deficit to 5-4 (lost 9-7)

Pace (in a 162-game season)... Читать дальше...

Call it Pound Town. Call it muscle mania. Call it a hit parade. But whatever you call it, David Price is going to take a good long shower and try to avoid thinking about how his special K performance slipped away, dominated collectively by the A’s squad and supported by Aaron Brooks’ excellent outing, notching his first win of the season.

Khris Davis struck first blood in his first at-bat with homerun #5 for the season. Ramon Laureano followed suit and, in his first at-bat, took it 428 feet deep to straight center field. This is not to say that David Price is not pitching well. He is and, through 5 innings struck out 8. But Price is not the only pitcher controlling the opponent’s offense. Brooks has 6 strikeouts through 6 innings, giving up only 2 hits in the second.

Game #7. Lucky #7? Quite possibly in this “opposites attract” matchup between the Oakland Athletics and the reigning World Champion Boston Red Sox. The A’s, struggling to find the right starting rotation during the spring, ended up finding the perfect combination with lights-out pitching from both starters and relievers. Opposite this stands the BoSox who came into the season with a concern for relief pitching and lots of confidence in their starters. To-date, these Red Sox starters have disappointed. Читать дальше...

The Red Sox are coming off of a historically dominant year in which they topped off a 108 win season with a 5 game World Series victory. The starting rotation was led by a trio of Cy Young winners and/or candidates, with a fourth starter who had a stronger postseason performance than any of them. The offense, surprisingly, was even better, with young stars like Mookie Betts and Andrew Benintendi leading Boston to the highest team OPS and the most runs scored in 2018, with second place barely within shouting distance. Читать дальше...

Hot rotation, hotter Khrush, and some bat flippin’

The Oakland A’s began their 2019 season with a bad dream in Japan. They dropped two games to a Mariners team they should have beaten, they lost one of their stars to injury in Matt Olson, and all of it happened in the middle of the night in the Bay Area while most of the fan base was asleep. It was a real bummer of a way to start the year.

Fortunately, we all woke up last week, and everything seems back to normal. The A’s took 3-of-4 games from the Angels in the Coliseum... Читать дальше...