With 17 games remaining in the MLB regular season, the Oakland Athletics are currently riding a six game winning streak after bombarding the Baltimore Orioles today 10-0.
The teams six game winning streak is currently the best in the majors. The Athletics have a better record then all the teams in the National league. Only three teams have a better record then the A's, and two of those three teams, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees are a combined 4-8 against Oakland this year. The Sox's and Yankees were both 1-2 away and at home when they faced Oakland this year.
Boston is the number one team in hitting, and by far has the most runs scored in baseball. Athletics pitcher Sean Manaea no hit them in April.
Oakland has claimed and kept the number two wild card spot since Aug.,2 and the number one AL wild card holding Yankees have a whopping one game lead over the A's.
The A's have the second most doubles in baseball, third in home runs and fifth in over-all hitting. http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting
Oakland's left fielder Khris Davis currently leads the majors in HR, and their center fielder Ramon Laureano has a cannon arm, he can throw a bullet to second base from the warning track in center field. Third baseman Matt Chapmen has more then 20 dingers, is batting over .280 (http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting) and is one of the main reasons the A's are the number one team in defense efficiency, which is measured by the percentages of balls hit that the defense converts into outs. (SI, Aug, 27)
Oak towns number one saver, Blake Treinen has a slider that can hit 100 mph. (SI, Aug, 27) Treinen is 37-4 in save opportunities, has the lowest era in baseball and when a Minnesota Twin homered off him on Aug., 23, it was only the second HR he's relinquished since the second week of the season. SI; http://stations.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/pitching?sort=WARBR
Team chemistry is tight this year, and the team has no $20 million dollar a year players. At the beginning of the season, the A's had the lowest payroll in the pros at $66 million dollars. (SI, Aug., 27)
The Athletics are exciting once again. Izzy Schurr, aka Mark Schurr
