The 2022 A’s join the 1979 squad as the only teams to lose 100 games in the franchise’s 54 seasons in Oakland.
ANAHEIM — By nearly becoming involved in major-league history Thursday night, the A’s reached a level of infamy that baseball fans in the East Bay last experienced more than four decades ago.
“It doesn’t feel good,” catcher Stephen Vogt said. “It’s the first time I’ve experienced it, and hopefully the last. None of us like it.” “When you’re a major-league baseball player, you come not only to play the game, but to prove to yourself, to your teammates and to everyone that’s watching that you belong here, that you can have an impact here,” he said. “The last thing that you want to portray is that you’re defeated. I don’t feel like our ballclub has done that one bit.”
“We try not to focus on the amount of losses,” Vogt said. “Not unlike tonight, we’ve had a lot of our games where we get the tying or winning run to the plate and make it a close game.” Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani throws to the plate during the first inning of a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Anaheim, Calif.
Mike Trout then lined a double onto the warning track in left-center field. Ohtani followed by poking a single up the middle to bring Trout home and extend his hitting streak to 14 games, his longest as a major leaguer. In Japan, Ohtani hit in 17 successive games.