The A’s couldn’t overcome some expensive defensive miscues Sunday within the remaining recreation of their season-opening 10-game highway journey.
Two A’s errors, together with a essential one within the fifth inning, led to 2 unearned runs for the Toronto Blue Jays, who closed out the three-game collection at Rogers Centre with a 4-3 win.
With the A’s down 3-2, shortstop Kevin Smith’s throwing error to first base on a Matt Chapman grounder allowed Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to attain from first base for a Toronto insurance coverage run for Toronto.
The A’s have made eight errors in 10 video games this season.
The A’s acquired a run again within the high of the eighth as Seth Brown’s sacrifice fly scored Sean Murphy from second base. However the A’s couldn't pull at the same time as they closed out the highway journey with a 5-5 report.
“I couldn’t be happier with the membership’s vitality, effort stage and struggle by means of these 10 days,” supervisor Mark Kotsay stated. “The report could not replicate, proper now, how effectively I really feel we performed on this highway journey.”
Catcher Stephen Vogt hit his first house run of the season and Sean Murphy’s sacrifice fly to middle discipline scored Cristian Pache from third base for 2 A’s runs within the fifth inning. However the A’s had been in any other case held in examine by Jays beginning pitcher Alek Manoah, who allowed 4 hits and had six strikeouts over six innings.
The A’s now return to Oakland and can play 13 of their subsequent 15 video games on the Coliseum, beginning with Monday’s Opening Night time recreation with the Baltimore Orioles.
Adam Oller’s second Main League begin lasted longer than his first for the A’s, however not by a lot.
Oller struggled along with his command and labored by means of 3⅓ innings, permitting 5 hits and two earned runs.
The Jays scored two runs within the first two innings Sunday as Oller, too, didn’t get a ton of assist from his protection.
Third baseman Sheldon Neuse within the first inning misplayed a floor ball hit proper at him by George Springer, who later scored on a sacrifice fly by Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
Within the second, proper fielder Seth Brown ran and dove however was unable to catch a ball hit by Zack Collins, who then scored from second on a Santiago Espinal single.
Oller, 27, lasted simply 1.1 innings in his Main League debut final Tuesday in opposition to Tampa Bay. He allowed 5 hits, together with two house runs, and 5 earned runs, and had three strikeouts to go together with three walks.
In opposition to the Jays, Oller threw simply 44 of his 75 pitches for strikes and was changed by Ryan Castellani with one out within the fourth inning after he walked Cavan Biggio.
“I assumed the fastball command was higher tonight, I simply didn’t have the breaking ball command,” Oller stated. “It’s unlucky in opposition to a very good hitting group.”