The Oakland A’s and Arizona Diamondbacks played a very good baseball games on Tuesay but the A’s fell short as they lost 2-1. The A’s got good starting pitching but the bullpen couldn’t hold the D-backs down late in the game as they scored the winning run on a home run in the eighth inning. The Diamondbacks took two out of three agains the A’s in the series.
The A’s sent Greg Smith to the mound to start the game and he threw the first five innings of the game giving up three hits and one run. Smith did walk three batters while striking out five. I’m not really sure why he was pulled after five innings but the first two guys out of the bullpen did a good job when they came in.
Brad Ziegler and Alan Embree combined to throw the sixth and seventh innings without letting a run score. But in the eighth inning, Keith Foulke gave up a home run to Justin Upton that proved to be the game winning hit. Foulke took the loss the Athletics and is now 0-2 on the season.
Jack Cust had the only rbi for the Athletics when he singled in Mark Ellis in the sixth inning. The A’s only had two other hits in the game as they really couldn’t get anything going at the plate against the Diamondbacks.
Hopefully the A’s will swing a better bat this weekend when they take on the Florida Marlins.
