Go Greens, smash State. Better Green than Dead. Power emanates from the barrel of a….wait, scratch that. We have no bats from which power emanates. A’s face Kelly Leake tonight. He’s not the skinny kid with the bad teenage facial hair any more. No, wait…he is so! A’s pitchers are done hitting this year…well, at ...

Slusser: He’s also added another element to his game. Barton felt as if he was letting the team down too much the past two seasons by failing to move runners from second to third with nobody out. So this year, he’s bunting in those situations. He has nine sacrifice bunts already. No A’s player had ...