A's veteran Eric Chavez confirmed on Friday he won't be playing again this season and is still very much considering retirement.
The A's made it look easy Sunday, when they got another strong outing from Gio Gonzalez, took advantage of Rangers miscues, and received a pair of long balls in their 8-2 finale win.
Ben Sheets was in the A's clubhouse on Friday looking like he'd never left, but he was also sporting a rather complex contraction around his surgically repaired right arm, which underwent repairs to the flexor tendon, pronator tendon and ulnar collateral ligament less than three weeks ago.
Much of Cliff Pennington's childhood was spent on the diamond, in a steamy Texas heat, between second and third base on the left side of the infield. "I was always a shortstop," Pennington says.
Jacki Lynch walked into her first A's game Thursday night with no other itinerary than to take advantage of a free ticket and enjoy the company of some college friends.
A walk-off RBI single off the bat of Cliff Pennington in the bottom of the ninth inning handed the A's a 5-4 victory and subsequent series win over the Blue Jays on Wednesday afternoon.
The A's entered Tuesday's meeting with the Blue Jays having tallied a combined seven hits over their previous three games.
Eric Chavez remembers it well, that June weekend in San Francisco when he told himself he was ready for a Minor League rehab assignment.
Behind a strong complete-game performance from lefty Dallas Braden, the A's salvaged a win in the final contest of a three-game set in Seattle by way of a 5-1 victory at Safeco Field on Wednesday afternoon.
A's top prospect Chris Carter was still beaming Monday, when the club officially announced they have called up their top prospect, along with recently acquired infielder Jeff Larish, in the wake of outfielder Matt Watson's (kidney stones) trip to the 15-day DL.
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