I'm not sure his defense at 3B is even "adequate" but the bat certainly is intriguing. Murray is one of those guys that gets dealt to the A's and makes an AS team somewhere along the line.
My boy Ballesteros doing work. I knew he had at least 1, but was not aware that our favorite bowling ball has 3, yes 3, stolen bases this year already.
Franklin was really good through 4. 4 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 Ks, 8 groundouts on only 54 pitches. Gave up a solo bomb and walked 2 in the 5 which made his line ho-hum.
Yes. I had to switch to my phone to watch the game.
Horton was fine in the 1st, despite allowing 3 hits and 2 runs. 2 of the 3 hits were seeing eye singles and there were 2 stolen bases that allowed the runners to score from 2nd. Sitting 96-97.
As I was the jinx for Jordan Wicks, I am the anti-jinx for Ben Brown. He only craps the bed when I don’t get to watch. Seriously, what the hell happened to him today? Ugly.
Franklin leaving balls over the middle too much when ahead in the count in the 1st. Settled down nicely in the 2nd. I have only heard one velo reading, which was 96.
K swinging (fastball), K swinging (curve), 5 pitch walk, groundout
Brown almost surely done with over 80 pitches. He had a weird habit of losing fastball command on the 3rd hitter of each inning.
Ground ball single up the middle, line drive single to LF (could have been caught), K swinging (fastball), fly out to CF, K swinging (fastball) in the 4th for Brown.
65 pitches through those 4