WEST STOCKBRIDGE The fact that four Major League Baseball teams came to this small town in the 1930s and 1940s to play a scrappy group of local boys is
Just to put this into perspective, Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known as the Hall of Famer Connie Mack, brought his A’s to tiny West Stockbridge to play an exhibition game. The
Xander Bogaerts hit a two-run single with two outs in the 10th inning and the Boston Red Sox completed a three-game sweep of the struggling New York Yankees by
Apr 8, 2021
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It took six pitchers, 10 innings and a sacrifice fly by a .042-hitting shortstop in the bottom of the ninth, but on Wednesday afternoon, it finally happened: the Oakland A’s won a game.
Mitch Moreland lined a walk-off single to centerfield to give Oakland a 4–3 win over the Dodgers. As pitcher Jesús Luzardo put it, the team “just got tired of getting our ass kicked.”
In storming back to beat Los Angeles, the A’s improved their 2021 record to 1-6 and avoided making history with the first 0-7 start in the 121-year history of the franchise. Their 0-6 start was the team’s worst since 1916 when they were in Philadelphia. That team, managed by Hall of Famer Connie Mack, was led by first baseman Stuffy McGinnis and had a pitcher named Bullet Joe Bush.