Elephant Rumblings: All-Star Matt Chapman leads A’s to series win over Angels
A’s Coverage:
- Gallegos: Chapman stars in A’s rout of Halos...
- Ostler: New All-Star Matt Chapman leads A’s power surge in win over Angels...
- Gallegos: Barreto hopes to seize opportunity in bigs...
- Gallegos: Piscotty sprains knee, placed on IL...
- Ostler: Stephen Piscotty injury outlook more optimistic for Athletics...
- Poindexter: A’s week in review — Back in the wild-card mix thanks to a surging offense... ($)
- Tefertiller: Jonah Heim Continues Improving At Triple-A...
Best of AN:
- Baker-Gillman: Game #86 — Late Rally Leads to Big Win...
- Nico: Eyeball Scout Drops By For A Few Winks...
- Hall: Fan confidence in holding pattern while Oakland A’s figure out who they are...
MLB News:
- Simon, Adler and Kelly: Position-by-position breakdown of 2019 All-Stars...
- Passan: MLBPA continues to fight ‘brand agreement’ bill...
- Merkin: No. 18 prospect Dylan Cease to debut for White Sox...
- King III: Brian Cashman holding out hope on Yankees righty Luis Severino returning in 2019...
- Heyman: Red Sox “quietly surveying” relief pitching market...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Corcoran: What this year’s All-Star snubs tell us about the new voting system... ($)
- Stark: 10 Things we learned in the first half of the season... ($)
- Clemens: Brandon Belt, Bunting Fool...
- Baumann: 27 Dresses, 27 Dingers — Cody Bellinger’s Home Runs As Rom-Com Quotes...
Today in Baseball History:
- 1911 — The A’s pound Walter Johnson for 13 runs, the most he’ll allow in his career, and beat Washington, 13 - 8. Frank Baker hits his second of five career homers off Johnson in the 6th with a man on.
- 2005 - After walking 2,100 miles from Camp Verde, Arizona to reach Wrigley Field, Bill Holden throws the ceremonial first pitch and leads the crowd in singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the 7th-inning stretch at the Cubs game against the Nationals. Inspired by the DVD, This Old Cub, a documentary about former Cubs All-Star third baseman Ron Santo who lost both his legs to diabetes, the 56-year-old school teacher, with two bad knees, pounds the pavement for 172 days and raises $250,000 with his ‘Walk the Walk’ campaign for juvenile diabetes research.
Best of Twitter:
- Jorge Mateo is awesome...
Twice as nice: #FuturesGame AND Pacific Coast League All-Star. @jorgemateord is on a hot streak in Vegas. pic.twitter.com/XbiKHhiLPS
— Oakland A's (@Athletics) June 28, 2019
- Mark Canha is awesome...
"Everything you are going to hear today is going to come up organically." @outtadapakmark let us mic him up to hear the shenanigans that go on during batting practice. #RootedInOakland pic.twitter.com/BXdmX3Hb6G
— Oakland A's (@Athletics) July 1, 2019
- Matt Chapman is awesome...
American League fWAR leaders since the 2018 All Star Game:
— Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) June 28, 2019
8.5 Mike Trout
7.2 Matt Chapman
6.4 Alex Bregman
6.0 Mookie Betts
5.7 Xander Bogaerts
5.5 Gerrit Cole
5.4 Joey Gallo
First All-Star nod and a career-high 6 RBI.
— MLB (@MLB) June 30, 2019
Today was a good day for Chappy. pic.twitter.com/2shfauAJhv
Last 365 days...
— Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) June 30, 2019
Javy Baez (164 games):
.290/.327/.548, 86 extra base hits, 126 wRC+, 5.7 fWAR
Manny Machado (163 games):
.286/.358/.516, 71 extra base hits, 131 wRC+, 5.9 fWAR
Matt Chapman (159 games):
.282/.358/.545, 89 extra base hits, 143 wRC+, 7.6 fWAR