SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!

Games don’t come much more satisfying than this one, as the A’s pile on the Tigers’ tough season with a three-game sweep. Unlike the previous two games, this one was over in the seventh, but it didn’t make the win any less sweet.

Robertson and Duchscherer started the game out sharp, swapping zeros until the bottom of the fourth, when back-to-back singles by Brown and Barton put runners on the corners for Travis Buck. The first run of the game scored on Buck’s double-play, and although that seems like a bad way to score a run, we know from personal A’s experience that they can (and do!) strike out twice in a row in that situation to leave runners stranded at third. My offensive expectations were comfortably low; at least the run scored at all. more...