http://www.athleticshomeplate.com A blog about Oakland Athletics Baseball Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:36:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Oakland Athletics and the Colorado Rockies have reached a deal that would send outfielder Matt Holliday to the Oakland A's. In exchange for Holliday, the A's would be sending Greg Smith, Huston Street and Carlos Gonzalez to the Rockies. Holliday, playing half his games at Coors Field, has 128 homers ... http://www.athleticshomeplate.com/as-trade-for-matt-holliday/ Second basemen Mark Ellisa and the Oakland Athletics have agreed on a new two year contract that includes an team option for the third year. The A's mentioned early on that they would like to have Ellis back and Ellis didn't want to go anywhere so working out the contract ... http://www.athleticshomeplate.com/mark-ellis-and-the-as-agree-on-new-contract/ The Oakland Athletics were absolutely hammered on Wednesday afternoon by the Texas Rangers. The Rangers jumped all over the A's and went on to win the ballgame by the score of 14-4. The A's dropped two out of three games on the road to the Rangers in the series. All four ... http://www.athleticshomeplate.com/as-are-crushed-by-the-rangers-14-4/ On Monday night the Oakland Athletics and Texas Rangers played 11 innings with the A's coming out on top with a 4-3 victory. The A's had blown the save in the bottom of the ninth inning, so it was nice to see them battle back and still get the victory. Brad ... http://www.athleticshomeplate.com/as-beat-the-rangers-4-3-in-11-innings/ The Oakland Athletics rallied in the bottom of the ninth inning but came up just short against the Los Angeles Angels. The A's scored four times in the ninth inning to avoid the shut out as they ended up losing by the score of 6-4. The A's came up just ... http://www.athleticshomeplate.com/as-rally-but-come-up-short-against-the-angels/ The Oakland Athletics finished up a three game series with the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday afternoon with a 5-2 victory. The A's took two out of three games in the series and they improved their season record to 67-78. There wasn't a ton of offense for the A's but they did ... http://www.athleticshomeplate.com/as-finish-up-tigers-series-with-5-2-victory/ The Oakland A's bats were hot Monday night however the pitching staff was terrible and the A's still lost. The A's gave up 14 runs to the Detroit Tigers and lost the first game of the series by the score of 14-8. Talk about a let down by the pitching ... http://www.athleticshomeplate.com/as-score-eight-runs-but-still-lost-14-8-to-the-tigers/ The Oakland Athletics had 16 hits and scored six runs in the first two innings of the game and then held on to beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-5 on Wednesday evening. With the one run victory, the A's and Angels split the four game series. Six differen't A's pitchers pitched ... http://www.athleticshomeplate.com/as-score-early-and-hold-off-the-angels-for-6-5-victory/ The Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels played a very close ballgame on Monday night and it was the A's coming out on top with a 2-1 victory. Dallas Braden and Jered Weaver both tossed seven innings but it was Braden who only allowed one run and received the win ... http://www.athleticshomeplate.com/braden-outduels-weaver-as-as-beat-angels-2-1/ The Oakland Athletics bats faltered on Wednesday afternoon as they lost to the Minnesota Twins by the score of 3-1. The A's pushed across one run in the first inning but then were held scoreless the final eight innings of the game. The A's ended up losing the three game ... http://www.athleticshomeplate.com/as-bats-falter-as-the-lose-3-1-to-the-twins/