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Warriors coach Steve Kerr has a secret passion: baseball
Warriors coach Steve Kerr has a secret passion: baseball
By John Shea
Somewhere along the line, Steve Kerr made a wise career choice. Based on his eight NBA championships, basketball was his destiny, but there was a time in his life, before high school, his best sport was ...
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A’s Matt Chapman has planned surgery to resolve thumb issue
Cortisone shots helped save the A’s season this year, alleviating discomfort in third baseman Matt Chapman’s left thumb and hand that prevented him from swinging a bat. Chapman had surgery Tuesday ...
Recalling Dennis Eckersley-Kirk Gibson, 30 years later
Highlights of Hall of Famers tend to be favorable toward Hall of Famers, frozen-in-time moments that set them apart from fellow legends. Willie Mays’ World Series catch that deprived Vic Wertz. Hank ...
Oakland’s Bob Melvin named Sporting News Manager of the Year
Bob Melvin, who managed the A’s to a surprise playoff spot this season after three consecutive last-place finishes, was named the American League Manager of the Year by the Sporting News on Tuesday. ...
A’s cut ties to flagship radio station
After months of hinting that they’ve parted ways with their flagship radio station, the A’s made it official, tweeting, “It’s not us, it’s you,” when their four-year contract with 95.7 FM The ...
Giants’ bid for Bryce Harper gets complicated
The news Friday was that Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius will undergo Tommy John surgery, and in a roundabout way, that could be a detriment to the Giants’ pursuit of Bryce Harper . The Giants will ...
From castoff to playoffs: Max Muncy bashes for Dodgers
LOS ANGELES — With all the high-priced players on the Dodgers’ roster, Max Muncy had to find a way to stand out. He has done it with his bat, coming from the minors to lead the team in home runs. ...
Former A’s reliever Brad Ziegler retires
Chronicle Staff Report
Brad Ziegler, who broke into the majors with the 2008 A’s as a submarine-style relief pitcher, announced his retirement in a Twitter post on Wednesday. Ziegler, who played for four teams (the ...
Giants need new boss; A’s have qualified candidates
By John Shea
The Giants will make one of their most important franchise-shaping decisions in years when they hire someone to run baseball operations, and they’ve pledged an extensive nationwide search. That means ...
Catching Houston won’t be easy for A’s
The A’s have had enough of wild-card games. Between the 2014 disaster at Kansas City and Wednesday night’s 7-2 loss to the Yankees, the A’s have been drummed out of the postseason under a terribly ...
A’s face decisions on rotation members, free agents
For their next trick, the A’s must try to figure out how to retain some key figures from their stirring 2018 run to the playoffs and how to ensure that their rotation is far more stable and reliable ...
Yankees-Red Sox: A call to history
It’s a bit of a sour story in Oakland, as the A’s have departed early, but the Yankees-Red Sox matchup lends tradition and a ton of promise in the American League Division Series. This is a rivalry ...
With any luck, A’s leave bullpenning behind
Nine regrettable innings at Yankee Stadium, and there went the A’s season Wednesday night. It just vanished, like some sort of mirage. One game, no second chances, and have a nice winter. With a lot ...
A’s try another tactic, but still no playoff success
By John Shea
NEW YORK — Here we are again. All dressed up for an extended run of October baseball and nowhere to go but home. The A’s constantly rewrite the way they do things, from building rosters to drafting ...
A’s super season crashes to an end in wild-card loss to Yankees
NEW YORK — Really, from mid-June on, the A’s proved to be ahead of schedule, turning into a much better team than almost anyone had anticipated except, perhaps, the players themselves. Before ...
Struggling rookie Lou Trivino has A’s best wild-card outing
NEW YORK — On a night that the A’s pitching was largely ineffective, rookie Lou Trivino turned in a fantastic outing, and a long one at that. Trivino, the A’s setup man the first half of the ...
When Reggie Jackson talks, Oakland should listen
By John Shea
The buzz from Wednesday’s wild-card game at Yankee Stadium: • Reggie Jackson wore a Yankees cap with “Mr. October” written on the back, as if anyone needed a reminder. Jackson is on the ...
Rough bullpenning opening by A’s Liam Hendriks
By John Shea
NEW YORK — For the first time this season, A’s opener Liam Hendriks surrendered a first-inning run — two, in fact — and it couldn’t have come at a worse time. Hendriks walked his first batter, ...
A’s, Yankees set for winner-take-all game; ‘We won all of those games for a reason’
NEW YORK - The Yankees, of course, have the more recognizable team. Fans know about Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, Luis Severino and Aroldis Chapman. The A’s will be by far the lesser known ...
A’s Jed Lowrie preparing for better playoff results than 2014 disaster
By John Shea
NEW YORK -- Jed Lowrie is the only player on this year’s playoff roster who appeared in Oakland’s last playoff game, which A’s fans would prefer to forget. “If this isn’t fun, what is, ...
A’s bullpenning against Yankees is risky business
By John Shea
NEW YORK — Let’s see a show of hands from everyone who knew in spring training that Liam Hendriks would start the A’s playoff opener. Anyone? Anyone? If you raised your hand, you also must have ...
Cal Ph.D graduate becomes 5th woman to win Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Jim Heintz and David Keyton, Associated Press
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three researchers who "harnessed the power of evolution" to produce enzymes and antibodies that have led to a new best-selling drug and biofuels won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on ...
A’s third baseman Matt Chapman takes his craft to playoff stage
Matt Chapman’s defensive artistry traces to the street outside his childhood home in Orange County. That’s where his dad, Jim, a onetime second baseman at Cal Poly Pomona, often hit a yellow rubber ...
Former A’s pitchers Ron Darling, Dennis Eckersley in the broadcast booth
By John Shea
The buzz from Tuesday's wild-card-game workout at Yankee Stadium: • Ron Darling , who’ll accompany Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley in the TBS broadcast booth, pitched for the A’s in his final ...
Late addition Jonathan Lucroy helps steady A’s as they head into wild-card game
NEW YORK — In the A’s only other wild-card experience, they fell to the Royals in 12 innings in large part because of an injury that occurred early in the game. Catcher Geovany Soto was knocked out by ...
A’s ‘humbled’ Liam Hendriks is first Aussie to start a postseason game
NEW YORK — Getting designated for assignment in June and clearing waivers — no other teams wanted him — not only makes Liam Hendriks a most unlikely playoff starter, but it also was the best ...
A’s against Yankees: East Coast wants Oakland to lose
You wonder why they’re even playing the game. A Yankees-Red Sox playoff series is considered such a lock along the Eastern seaboard, Wednesday night’s wild-card game between the A’s and Yankees ...
For homegrown A’s, playoffs are nothing new
By John Shea
Chad Pinder was reminiscing about his minor-league career when asked about the Texas League MVP he won in 2015. His first thought was of teammate Matt Olson. “I can’t count how many times he saved me ...
Billy Beane remembers A’s wild-card heartbreak
NEW YORK — Oakland’s one previous wild-card game experience was a back-and-forth classic in 2014 that the A’s appeared to have nailed down numerous times, and they were two outs from going to the ...
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A’s Matt Chapman has planned surgery to resolve thumb issue
Cortisone shots helped save the A’s season this year, alleviating discomfort in third baseman Matt Chapman’s left thumb and hand that prevented him from swinging a bat. Chapman had surgery Tuesday ...
Recalling Dennis Eckersley-Kirk Gibson, 30 years later
Highlights of Hall of Famers tend to be favorable toward Hall of Famers, frozen-in-time moments that set them apart from fellow legends. Willie Mays’ World Series catch that deprived Vic Wertz. Hank ...
Oakland’s Bob Melvin named Sporting News Manager of the Year
Bob Melvin, who managed the A’s to a surprise playoff spot this season after three consecutive last-place finishes, was named the American League Manager of the Year by the Sporting News on Tuesday. ...
A’s cut ties to flagship radio station
After months of hinting that they’ve parted ways with their flagship radio station, the A’s made it official, tweeting, “It’s not us, it’s you,” when their four-year contract with 95.7 FM The ...
Giants’ bid for Bryce Harper gets complicated
The news Friday was that Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius will undergo Tommy John surgery, and in a roundabout way, that could be a detriment to the Giants’ pursuit of Bryce Harper . The Giants will ...
From castoff to playoffs: Max Muncy bashes for Dodgers
LOS ANGELES — With all the high-priced players on the Dodgers’ roster, Max Muncy had to find a way to stand out. He has done it with his bat, coming from the minors to lead the team in home runs. ...