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THIS WASN’T PRETTY — IT WAS BETTER: A GRITTY A’S WIN IN BALTIMORE
The A’s didn’t stroll into Baltimore tonight wearing tuxedos and playing smooth jazz. They walked in with steel-toed boots and survived a nine-inning alley fight. After getting bottled up early by Kyle Bradish, the offense finally cracked the game open in the fifth inning behind clutch at-bats from Max Schuemann, Lawrence Butler, Zack Gelof, and the massive swing from Nick Kurtz, whose two-run triple flipped the entire night on its head. That was the moment the game changed. The A’s stopped playing reactive baseball and started dictating the tempo against one of the toughest lineups in the…
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