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A’s looking for offensive boost vs. tough foes
- Updated: August 8, 2016
OAKLAND — The reeling A’s faced the hottest team in baseball this weekend in the Cubs, and opposing Chicago’s three strongest pitchers certainly didn’t help.
Chicago’s Jon Lester, Jake Arrieta and Kyle Hendricks all delivered terrific outings, finishing off a sweep Sunday at the Coliseum behind Hendricks. Oakland scored three runs in three games, advanced just one runner past second base over their last two, and were swept for the ninth time this season in a 3-1 loss.
The A’s are losers of eight of their last nine games. Their unsettled starting rotation has gone 0-6 with a 9.96 ERA in their last eight games, but their starters pitched with a slim margin of error against the Cubs. Sunday’s starter Sean Manaea threw five scoreless innings before allowing solo homers in the sixth and seventh to Kris Bryant and Jorge Soler, respectively, taking his seventh loss.
“It’s a pretty good lineup that, other than two pitches, he did a pretty good job against,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said.
But Oakland’s lineup found exactly one pitch — Marcus Semien belted a solo homer in the eighth on Sunday on a Hendricks …
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