Elephant Rumblings: A’s run winning streak to four
Saturday’s news and notes
Paul Blackburn tossed six shutout innings Saturday and the Oakland Athletics came through with a timely hit in the 10th inning to defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 Saturday. Oakland has now won a season-high four straight games and secured their second straight series win. Aledmys Diaz paced the offense Saturday with three hits, including the go-ahead single in the 10th.
A’s Coverage
- ‘Paul’s best’ on display in Blackburn’s gem
- A’s ‘reverse boycott’ might go down in Bay Area history. Don’t miss it
- A’s finally enjoying fruits of labor amid four-game win streak
- The point in the season where there are no ‘flukes’
MLB News
- Julio Urias suffers setback in rehab from hamstring injury
- These players deserve to be first-time ASG starters
- Giants option Joey Bart
- Marcus Stroman hoping to engage Cubs in contract extension talks
- Could the White Sox trade Liam Hendriks?
- Yankees broadcaster John Sterling, bloodied by foul ball, will be back in booth Sunday
Best of Twitter
Mark Kotsay on the team’s four-game winning streak.
Kotsay says the A's are starting to come together as a club over this recent hot streak pic.twitter.com/i9JlHGdM86
— A's on NBCS (@NBCSAthletics) June 10, 2023
Paul Blackburn on the team’s new found confidence.
Paul Blackburn and the A's are playing with a newfound confidence, and it's showing pic.twitter.com/9cndMdW2c3
— A's on NBCS (@NBCSAthletics) June 10, 2023
The first ever fan funded giveaway will take place Tuesday in Oakland.
@MLB’s first ever fan funded giveaway! Provided to the first 7K fans in attendance at the #ReverseBoycott @Athletics game June 13th. Thank you to @Oaklandish and the most wonderful fan base in the world! #OAKtogether pic.twitter.com/gSjsHj9yjC
— Oakland 68s (@Oakland68s) June 10, 2023
Down on the farm, Tyler Soderstrom homered again for Las Vegas
A’s Prospect of the Day is catcher Tyler Soderstrom @tylersode who had a HR & a triple to help @AviatorsLV win on Saturday. He's hit 4 HRs in his last 6 games & now leads Las Vegas with 14 HRs…https://t.co/g0CAtruStI https://t.co/8lhtRErERS
— Athletics Farm (@AthleticsFarm) June 11, 2023