Oakland’s lineup is getting embarrassed once again today by a pitcher who is not even close to the top of his game. CC Sabathia has yet to figure things out for the Yankees, but the A’s are still losing because it seems that nobody in their lineup can hit. Kurt Suzuki has a home run on the day, but that’s just one of 3 hits through 5 innings. It looks like this is going to be another one of those games where the A’s show promise at the start, but then do nothing for the final 7 innings. Sure, the A’s accumulated 12 hits last night, but very few of them came when it counted. They scored only 3 runs with those hits. How do you manage to scatter 12 hits for just 3 runs? That’s 4 hits for every run scored!
We need better clutch hitting, and better situational hitting if we’re going to have any chance of making the playoffs this season. It seems that every chance we have for a big inning, we end up stranding runners on 2nd and 3rd.
