The A\u2019s spring training continued today at Surprise Stadium as the Athletics faced off against the Texas Rangers. The A\u2019s entered today having won five straight and scored fifty-one runs in those victories. Could they keep this offensive barrage alive?<\/p>\n
J.T. Ginn got the start today for the A\u2019s against Jack Leiter for Texas.<\/p>\n
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Max Muncy got the scoring started in the first with a 440 ft. bomb to left centerfield for his third homer of the spring.<\/p>\n
That staked Ginn to a 1-0 lead before he even took the mound. That lead didn\u2019t last. In the bottom of the second, Ginn\u2019s former batterymate Willie MacIver drove in three with a bases loaded double. That was all for Ginn, who gave way to Ryan Magdic*. A Wyatt Langford 3-run blast brought the score to 6-1 that same inning.<\/p>\n
Henry Bolte hit his second homer of the spring to deep left field to inch the A\u2019s closer, 6-2. The A\u2019s scored two more in the top of the sixth on an RBI single by Leo De Vries and a ground out by Colby Thomas. That brought the score to 6-4.<\/p>\n
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In the top of the seventh, Brian Serven hit a sacrifice fly, Bobby Blandford scored. In the bottom of the inning, former A\u2019s veteran Jonah Bride reached on a throwing error by third baseman Jared Sprague-Lott allowing Trevor Hauver to score.<\/p>\n
In the top of the eighth, Breyson Guedez reaches on a fielding error by shortstop Tyler Wade. Michael Stefanic singled, driving in Breyson Guedez from second. The rally ended with Stefanic caught attempting to steal second. The A\u2019s attempted to mount a ninth inning rally but fell short, ending the five-game winning streak 7-6 to the Rangers.<\/p>\n
*Ginn returned and ended up pitching 4.2 innings, giving up four earned runs on four hits and three walks. He struck out five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The A\u2019s spring training continued today at Surprise Stadium as the Athletics faced off against the Texas Rangers.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4818,234868,98957,234866,103431,229361,3963,234867,363,99,2330,79537,234869,154484,234870,45450],"class_list":["post-520110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-brian-serven","tag-colby-thomas","tag-ginn","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jonah-bride","tag-max-muncy","tag-michael-stefanic","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers","tag-the-athletics","tag-trevor-hauver","tag-tyler-wade","tag-willie-maciver","tag-wyatt-langford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}