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Easter Elephant Has Been Hiding Wins

He lays huge eggs and bounds around the garden hiding them while trumpeting loudly and splashing in the water from the nearby sprinkler. Yes he’s the famous and beloved Easter Elephant and the A’s are but 2-6 as the calendar hits his special day. Let’s go inside a couple numbers to see why or how […]

A’s Pitching and Defense Implode in Blowout Loss to the Astros

The Athletics’ second home game of 2026 was exactly the opposite of its first game. After the A’s blew out the Houston Astros 11-4 in yesterday’s series-opener, the Astros responded with a blowout win of their own, taking advantage of porous A’s pitching and defense to win 11-0. Playing in front of a crowd full […]

Astros vs Athletics Game Thread: Game 9, 4/4/2026

The Houston Astros (5-3) travel to the Athletics (2-5) this afternoon in Sacrament0 in the second game of a three game series. Astros game three starterRHP Tatsuya Imai will make his second start of the season for the Astros, this time opposite RHP Luis Morales and the Athletics. Saturday’s TILT: The Astros and Athletics will play the second game […]

Game #8: Astros at Athletics Game Thread

Following six games of offensive ineptitude, the Athletics’ offense erupted last night in the team’s home opener in front of a sold-out crowd at West Sacramento’s Sutter Health Park. The team defeated the Houston Astros 11-4, all of the A’s runs coming with two outs. Third baseman Max Muncy finished a triple shy of the […]

Blowout! A’s Demolish Astros 11-4 in Divisional Matchup

We got our second win of the season folks! The A’s throttled the Astros on Friday evening, opening their home stand with a win against a squad that is expected to compete for the division crown. Springs dominates Lefty Jeffrey Springs got the call for the first home game of the season. After having some […]

Astros vs Athletics Game Thread: Game 8, 4/3/2026

he Houston Astros (5-2) travel to the Athletics (1-5) tonight In Sacrament0 in the first game of a three game series. Astros game three starterRHP Cristian Javier will make his second start of the season for the Astros, this time opposite LHP Jeffrey Springs and the Athletics. Friday’S TILT: The Astros and Athletics will play the first game of […]

Game #7: Astros at Athletics Game Thread

Home game! First of the year everyone. The A’s are back in West Sacramento for their first series of the year in front of the home crowd. The starting pitcher for the home team is going to be Jeffrey Springs. Set to make his second start of the season he’ll be looking for more of […]

Elephant Rumblings: A’s Back in Sac For First Game at Home Tonight

Happy Friday A’s fans! The Athletics wrapped up their season-opening road trip this week with a series loss to the Atlanta Braves. Combined with the sweep to open the year up in Toronto against the Blue Jays and the A’s are already behind the eight ball with a 1-5 record to begin the year, sitting […]

Astros – A’s Series Preview with Athletics Broadcaster Ken Korach

Tonight marks the first of thirteen contests this season with the division rival A’s.  Ken Korach, who’s a staple in the A’s booth serving as lead announcer since 2006, joins The Crawfish Boxes for an in-depth series preview:  Q: What’s the ceiling for Nick Kurtz?  How dominant can he be?  A: I think his ceiling […]

Extensions To Colt Emerson And Konnor Griffin A New Trend?

After reading the headline you were probably wondering how long it would take for me to mention Leo De Vries. The answer was, apparently, 18 words. Let’s take a look at two trends that are on collision course unless they aren’t: 1. The A’s have gone wild lately with regard to extensions, inking not one, […]

Elephant Rumblings: No Hit Parade (yet) for the A’s

Well, the A’s are six games into the season and the power surge that we saw in spring training seems just like a Desert Mirage. The team that averaged 7.0 runs per game in Arizona can barely manage 2.8 now that the regular season has started. To be fair, it’s unreasonable to expect the same […]

Braves vs. Athletics series recap: A business-like start to the season

4-2 sure beats the crap out of 0-7, right? Indeed, the Atlanta Braves have gotten their season off on the right foot following a successful homestand to get things going. Atlanta took the opening series with two straight wins over the Royals to start things off and now they’ve kept things going in the right […]

A’s Drop Another Series in 5-1 Defeat to Braves

Not much to write home about here after yet another series dropped to begin the 2026 campaign. Luis Severino took the bump. His second start of the season, following an outing on opening day where he pitched…fine. Across five frames against the Blue Jays he gave up 2 ER while striking out three. Everything would […]

Offense does enough as Chris Sale deals in Braves win

The Atlanta Braves took on the Athletics today in the series finale as both staff aces took the mound. Both teams have struggled offensively to start the season, which may be shocking to some because both team’s lineups look solid on paper in comparison to the rest of the league. The key to this game […]

Athletics at Atlanta Braves game thread

The Atlanta Braves are set to face off against the offensively struggling Athletics in a series finale that features both staff aces in Chris Sale and Luis Severino. The Braves have only scored 3.80 runs thus far and the Athletics have only scored 3.20. The crazy part is even though the Braves have a thin […]

Game #6: Athletics at Braves Game Thread

Rise and shine everyone! We got an early one today as the Athletics wrap up their first road trip of the year. Toronto was not kind to us but Atlanta has been a bit better after yesterday’s first victory of the year. Another win today and we’ll also have our first series win of the […]

Atlanta Braves go with same lineup against Athletics

There is no sugar coating it, the Atlanta Braves need to score more runs if they want to be successful. They face the Athletics today averaging 3.8 runs score per game against two teams that are not exactly World Series favorites. Only ten teams in MLB are scoring fewer runs per game than the Braves […]

Nick Senzel leads 3rd straight double-digit Oklahoma City outburst

The Oklahoma City Comets erupted for seven runs in the sixth inning to break a tie, and scored 13 runs for a third straight game in a rout of the Las Vegas Aviators (Athletics), in the first road game of the season for Oklahoma City. Player of the day Nick Senzel drove in a run […]

Elephant Rumblings: New Month Means New Opportunities

Happy Wednesday A’s fans! News flash: the Athletics return to Oakland and catapult to the top of the American League. April Fools! But the A’s did get their first win of the season yesterday, defeating the Atlanta Braves 5-2. April 1st starts the first full-month of the regular-season. Perhaps it will be the beginning of […]

Chris Sale takes the mound for the Braves against the Athletics

The Atlanta Braves are facing off against the Athletics in a series finale that fans of pitching should love. Both staff aces will be facing off as both teams look to take the series. The Braves will bring Chris Sale to the mound and face Luis Severino in a matchup against two struggling offenses. Both […]

Athletics defeat Braves 5-2 in Atlanta

The Athletics continued their interleague series with the Braves today at Truist Park in Atlanta. Making his first official start of the season for the A’s was 30-year-old righty Aaron Civale. He was 4-9 with a 4.85 ERA last season for three MLB ball clubs. Civale matched up against 28-year-old lefty José Suarez for the […]

Offense can’t pick up Jose Suarez in 5-2 loss

Looking for another series win, the Braves had Jose Suarez on the mound facing the A’s and Aaron Civale. Things started nicely for Atlanta and for Suarez, as Jose struck out two of the 3 A’s he faced in the first. Drake Baldwin continued his torrid hitting to start the season with a first inning […]

Game #5, Athletics vs. Braves Game Thread

The Athletics continue their interleague series with the Atlanta Braves today.  The 3-1 Braves will take on the 0-4 A’s at Truist Park in Atlanta. Making his first official start of the season for the A’s is Aaron Civale.  The 30-year-old righty was 4-9 with a 4.85 ERA last season with three different teams: the […]

There Is An “A” In “GrAvediggers”

29 teams have now celebrated their first win of the season now and then there’s the A’s. 0-4 and continuing what is now a disturbing trend of digging an early grave and then spending precious time trying to dig out. The last winning season the A’s had was 2021 and that season they opened 0-6. […]