Oakland Athletics’ Garrett Acton (67) high-fives the dugout after making this Major League Baseball debut against the Texas Rangers in the sixth inning at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, May 14, 2023. 214 winning percentage, the 2023 A’s are on pace for a 35-127 record, which would be the most losses in the majors since the 1899 Cleveland Spiders went 20-134. That 1919 A’s team finished the year at 36-104. The 2023 team now has a three-game set with the Arizona Diamondbacks, who sit in second place in the National League West after taking three of four from the Giants at home. This year’s group had been tied with the 1919 Philadelphia A’s for the slowest-ever start after 41 games, but that team from 104 years ago won their 42nd game. “I thought our defense was playing better,” Kotsay said, “but today was a rough day.”Īt 9-33, the A’s are off to their worst start in the franchise’s 123-year history with the season just a quarter of the way through. There’s no other way to describe it,” said A’s manager Mark Kotsay, who was ejected in the eighth inning for arguing balls and strikes. Oakland Athletics manager Mark Kotsay (7) talks to home plate umpire Dan Bellino during their game against the Texas Rangers in the eighth inning at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, May 14, 2023. Ruiz also committed an error in the fourth inning, dropping a routine fly ball by Ezequiel Duran. Texas tacked on seven more runs in the eighth, handing the A’s their seventh loss in the last eight games. With Austin Pruitt pitching in the eighth inning, a Jonah Heim single to right center - combined with an error by Esteury Ruiz - allowed Adolis Garcia to score from second base and give the Rangers a 4-3 lead. The A’s committed four errors, including one that led to the game’s winning run, in what turned into an 11-3 loss to the Rangers before an announced crowd of 7,793 at the Coliseum. But it wasn’t hard to pinpoint what their biggest problem was Sunday in their series-closing game against the Texas Rangers. OAKLAND - The Oakland A’s are experiencing myriad issues in what might just turn into a record-setting season for futility.
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