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Crisp, Lowrie power Athletics to sweep

Greg Thurston — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:51:24 +0000

Coco Crisp and Jed Lowrie both homered for the second straight day to help the Oakland Athletics finish a 3-game sweep of the Houston Astros. Lucas Harrell had possibly his worst outing as an Astro, lasting only 4 & 1/3 innings while giving up eight runs on seven hits and five walks. On the offensive side, Astros hitters continued to struggle to make contact, striking out 14 times on the afternoon. The result — a 9-3 blowout.

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Oakland Athletics Season Preview

Greg Thurston — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:02:01 +0000

The 2012 Oakland Athletics shocked the baseball world by dethroning the two-time defending A.L. West champion Texas Rangers. What was especially exciting for A’s fans was the way they did it. Oakland finished the regular season on a six game winning streak, including the final three games against the Rangers, to win the division by the slimmest of margins. The A’s would eventually succumb to Justin Verlander and the Tigers in game 5 of the ALDS to put an end to their storybook season. Was last year a fluke, or will the 2013 Athletics pick up right where they left off?

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Thanks a lot Jeff (Luhnow)

Jeff Raymer — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:00:50 +0000

So I had an article all ready to go, then it happened. The Astros traded Jed Lowrie to the Oakland A’s for three prospects. There went my article, thanks a lot Jeff Luhnow. All of the time, all of the words, all of the research, gone. It was a bitter sweet moment to say the least, because I actually liked the trade for the Astros (really, really liked the trade for the Astros, but that has been covered extremely well already on this site, so no need to go into that aspect of this story here). But my article was done, and I was back at square one. The one word that comes to mind for a new staff writer is frustrating.

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