Jarrod Parker Sharp, Donaldson and Rosales Homer in 2-1 “Bacon Friday” Win
Jarrod Parker threw arguably his best outing of the season Friday night as the Oakland A’s beat the Kansas City Royals on “Bacon Friday” at the Oakland Coliseum.
Parker tossed seven innings, allowing just one earned run on four hits and two walks. He struck out five batters and tossed 98 pitches, 60 for strikes, in his outing. He retired 10 of the final 11 batters he faced...
Fantasy Baseball Dingers and Stingers: May 15
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Josh Donaldson (3B OAK) 64% owned in Yahoo! – A lot of people have been disregarding him for his hot start, but he needs to be owned in more leagues. The start might seem fluky, but only because he doesn’t have a great track record or minor league stats. You know what I say? Ride him while he’s hot. He has five homers...
Josh Donaldson: Hot Streak or Breakout?
Josh Donaldson of the Oakland Athletics has been tearing it up this season. Donaldson is slashing a .315/.387/.523 line that has the entire fantasy community wondering if it’s just a hot streak or if he’s enjoying a sustainable breakout season. Donaldson is 27 years old with an interesting minor league history.
Throughout the minors Donaldson has enjoyed a pattern that involves...
The Reality of Josh Donaldson
In last night’s Athletics-Rangers extra-inning affair, Oakland third baseman Josh Donaldson went 4-for-5 with two doubles. Oakland lost, but it was not Donaldson’s fault that no one was on base when he came up to the plate, or that the As only drove him in once of the four times he was on base himself. Donaldson’s 2013 performance so far has been excellent. Donaldson has been...
Melvin Ejected, Donaldson 4-for-5 In Athletics 6-5 Loss to Rangers
Josh Donaldson went 4-for-5 but the Oakland Athletics left eleven runners stranded on Tuesday night at the Coliseum as they fell to the Texas Rangers 6-5 in ten innings.
After a scoreless three frames on both sides, the Rangers put three runs on the board, thanks in part to Mitch Moreland’s eighth home run of the year.
The Athletics offense woke up in the bottom of the fifth after...
Athletics 5, Yankees 4
Josh Donaldson hit Oakland's third home run of the game, a tiebreaking drive off Boone Logan in the eighth inning that lifted the Athletics over the New York Yankees 5-4 Sunday.
Luke Montz and Yoenis Cespedes homered as Oakland took a 4-1 lead against Andy Pettitte, who struggled for the second straight start, but the Yankees rallied in the sixth against reliever Jerry Blevins...
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Oakland A's Josh Donaldson Will Need Some Time to Get Past This One
The sad thing is Josh Donaldson hit a home run in the 12th on Friday to give the A's the win over the Tigers, but no one is going to care about that. They are just going to talk about this pitch from Detroit's Rick Porcello to Donaldson on Sunday.
There was one thing that happened very early in my baseball career that told me I did not want to play (and wouldn'...
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Porcello's curveball embarrasses Donaldson
Josh Donaldson nearly hurting himself thinking he needed to get out of the way of a Rick Porcello pitch in the 9th inning, only to realize it was a breaking ball and he didn't, was the most embarrassing thing to be captured on tape of anyone wearing A's gear on Sunday. (Yes, way more embarrassing than the young A's fan who threw a foul ball back after his Dad gave it...
Rick Porcello’s breaking ball embarrasses Josh Donaldson (VIDEO)
Can somebody get Josh Donaldson a new pair of pants please? Donaldson, the A’s starting third baseman, was the victim of a diving Rick Porcello breaking ball Sunday.
Porcello entered Sunday’s game as a relief pitcher since his next start will be skipped with a Tigers’ off day. He threw two perfect innings.
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