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Reuters
3 days ago
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- Reuters
A's 3B/LF Miguel Andujar (oblique) likely heading to IL
June 2 - Athletics third baseman/left fielder Miguel Andujar sustained right oblique discomfort in Sunday's game and likely will be placed on the injured list, manager Mark Kotsay said after the 8-4 loss to the host Toronto Blue Jays. The team said Andujar, 30, was hurt while taking a swing and will have an MRI on Monday to determine the severity of the injury. Andujar exited in the bottom of the fifth inning and was replaced at third base by Max Schuemann. Andujar has gotten on base on a fielder's choice in the top of the fifth and later scored on Luis Urias' double. Andujar went 0-for-2 with one walk and the run. He is batting .296 with three home runs, 20 RBIs, a .328 on-base percentage and .402 slugging percentage in 46 games. A career .276 hitter, Andujar has 46 homers and 199 RBIs in 419 regular-season games with the New York Yankees (2017-22), Pittsburgh Pirates (2022-23) and Athletics (2024-present). He was second in the American League Rookie of the Year voting in 2018 when he batted .297 with 27 homers and 92 RBIs in 149 games with the Yankees. --Field Level Media
New York Post
27-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
A's manager Mark Kotsay has long, embarrassing journey in awkward ejection
For once, someone may have missed the Coliseum. Athletics manager Mark Kotsay had to make a 330-foot-plus walk of shame after being ejected from Sunday's win over the Phillies since the home team clubhouse at Sutter Health Park — a minor-league park in Sacramento serving as the team's temporary home — is located beyond the outfield walls. While almost all his fellow managers can just retreat through their dugout to the clubhouse, Kotsay instead had plenty of time to think about his ejection in the seventh inning of a 5-4 win. Advertisement 4 On the bright side, Kotsay got his steps in for the day. @uprootedoakland/X 'It's long. It's long, definitely,' Kotsay said with a laugh. 'There was a moment where I thought, should I jog? And then I thought, actually no, I think (Phillies starter Jesus) Luzardo could use a little break.' The Athletics are playing in Sacramento while they prepare for their eventual move to Las Vegas and their home games are hosted at the home of the Giants' Triple-A affiliate. Advertisement Minor-league parks are not as lavish as major-league ones, which can create the awkward situation like the one that unfolded Sunday. In a 3-3 game in the seventh, Kotsay earned the booth for disagreeing with a first-pitch strike call against Miguel Andujar with two on and two outs. 4 Kotsay yelling at umpire Roberto Ortiz. Getty Images Advertisement Kotsay noted in the ex-Yankee's previous at-bat, Andujar also disagreed with a call and the manager said to let him know if he felt a wrong call had been made so he could take it up with umpire Roberto Ortiz. Andujar felt the first pitch in the seventh missed but it was ruled a strike. Kotsay argued the call from the bench before being ousted, and he then walked to the plate to let Ortiz hear it. Kotsay's outrage included some finger pointing. 4 Mark Kotsay did some finger pointing. @uprootedoakland/X Advertisement 'I was obviously frustrated with the first call, I expressed that, but I was more frustrated in the reaction that I got back from the umpire,' Kotsay said. 'And that's what we kind of talked about. I made sure that he was aware that I was frustrated with how he treated me. I know he's frustrated with my disagreement in the balls and strikes, which he's perfectly allowed to be, but I think we agree to disagree in that situation.' Kotsay then made the trek down the left field line toward the wall, walking 330-something feet. 4 On the bridge side, the Athletics won. @uprootedoakland/X The game had to be paused while he walked, with some of the fans giving him an ovation. One reporter told Kotsay he clocked him walk at 48 seconds. The A's eventually rallied for two runs in the eighth to end their 11-game losing streak. Kotsay watched the end of the game in the training room. Advertisement 'No one in that room was happy about losing 11 straight games and there's obviously emotion that's pent up,' Kotsay said. 'Sometimes, that volcano erupts. There was nothing preconceived, there was no thought process, it was just reactionary to the moment in the game. It was a big moment in the game. 'I think I've grown up a little bit as a manager over the last three years, calmed down in certain ways and been able to be a better communicator and today I wasn't maybe the best of communicators to the umpire.'
Daily Mail
27-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Athletics hits new low as ejected manager Mark Kotsay is left humiliated by temporary minor league ballpark
Often referred to as the 'walk of shame,' the unceremonious departures of ejected baseball managers are usually quick journeys from home plate to the dugout. But in West Sacramento, where the migrating Athletics are playing for three years en route to their new Las Vegas home, that walk is considerably longer. As manager Mark Kotsay discovered Sunday, ejected managers in West Sacramento will need to hoof it about 330-feet to their respective outfield corners in order to access the clubhouse. So when Kotsay was tossed in the seventh inning of Sunday's game against the visiting Philadelphia Phillies, the game needed to pause briefly as he exited stage left (field). The A's, who were on an 11-game losing streak, took a 3-0 lead in the first inning but were tied 3-3 at the time of the ejections in the seventh. They went on to a wild 5-4 victory over the Phillies to snap their skid. Kotsay said something from the dugout after the first pitch from Jesús Luzardo to Andujar, a sweeper near the bottom of the strike zone, was called a strike despite appearing to be outside. Kotsay came out of the dugout to continue the argument and motioned with an arm at Ortiz following his 15th career ejection, the first for the A's this season. Kotsay then had to make the long walk down the warning track along the third-base side to the clubhouse behind the left-field wall at Sutter Health Park, the team's temporary home for at 2025-28. 'I was more frustrated in the reaction that I got back from the umpire,' Kotsay said. 'And that's what we kind of talked about, and I made sure that he was aware that I was frustrated with how he treated me. I know he's frustrated with my disagreement in the balls and strikes, which he's perfectly allowed to be, but I think we agree to disagree in that situation.' Andujar took another strike, then struck out swinging on the third pitch. He motioned at Ortiz with an arm and also was tossed. 'For Andujar, he felt the next pitch was in the same location, maybe even a little higher, called for another strike. And then he chased the fastball up,' Kotsay said. 'So there's a lot of frustration in there and I think that came out and it's OK.' Bench coach Darren Bush took over as acting manager to get the win. The A's had not lost 12 straight games in a season since 1994. Prior to the season, the Athletics moved about an hour east from Oakland to the Sacramento area, where they will be based in a minor league ballpark for the next three seasons while hoping a more permanent home in Las Vegas will be ready in 2028. The A's now play at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, a 14,00-seat park they share with San Francisco's Triple-A River Cats.
Associated Press
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
A's catcher MacIver gets go-ahead hit, throws out runner to end game in big league debut at age 28
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Willie MacIver hit a go-ahead single in the eighth inning of his major league debut. Minutes later, the 28-year-old catcher threw out a runner trying to steal second for the final out that ended the Athletics' 11-game losing streak. 'I woke up hoping for a Gatorade bath at the end of the game and, man, I've never felt such a good feeling with such cold water,' he said after the A's beat Philadelphia 5-4 on Sunday and stopped the Phillies' nine-game win streak. MacIver was among five players brought up from the minors on Friday. He started Sunday in place of Shea Langeliers in the day game after a night game. 'This is part of the talk that we had in spring training, it was going to take the whole army that was in the room,' said manager Mark Kotsay, who watched the end from the clubhouse following his first ejection this season. MacIver, hitting .389 with two homers and 30 RBIs at Triple-A Las Vegas, grounded out in the second and fourth against Jesús Luzardo, then struck out in the sixth. After Trea Turner homered in the eighth off Hogan Harris for a 4-3 lead, another Friday call-ups sparked the rally. Logan Davidson walked and scored on Lawrence Butler's triple against Matt Strahm. MacIver fouled off a fastball, then drove a cutter into center field to bring home the go-ahead run. 'I'm always upset about walks,' Strahm said. 'I just feel like I've had too many too close together.' A day after blowing a ninth-inning lead, Mason Miller allowed a two-out single in the ninth to Alec Bohm. Johan Rojas pinch ran and MacIver, who had been in the minors since 2018, threw to shortstop Jacob Wilson, who tagged the sliding Rojas on an elbow. 'I had family here, friends, teammates, ex-teammates,' MacIver said. 'It's a dream come true. I can't even put it into words.' Rojas at 29.9 feet per second has the fifth-highest sprint speed in the majors among players with 10 or more opportunities, according to Statcast. MacIver was selected by Colorado in the ninth round of the 2018 amateur draft from the University of Washington. He played in the 2021 Futures Game with Bobby Witt Jr., Julio Rodríguez and Spencer Torkelson. MacIver became a minor league free agent last November and signed a minor league contract with the Athletics a month later. 'I'm so grateful for my family and for my support system,' he said. 'They've been everything to me and I obviously wouldn't be here without them and like I can't thank them enough. ... The fact that they could be here and see my first hit and how that game ended, man, it's awesome.' Davidson started at first a day after Nick Kurtz left the game because of a left hip issue. He had two hits and two RBIs a day after a forgettable debut. Davidson entered as a pinch runner for Kurtz in the 10th inning. He was thrown out at the plate, called for obstruction and ended a 9-6 loss by striking out. 'There's a lot of confidence that I have in this kid,' Kotsay said. 'I've invested a lot of time, we've had a lot of conversations through the last two seasons about what it was going to take for him to be a big leaguer and he has not backed down from anything that I've given him and to see the reward come today and just his first start and contributing and having such an impact to the win, was awesome.' ___ AP MLB:
CBS News
25-05-2025
- Sport
- CBS News
Athletics snap skid, end Phillies' win streak with 5-4 victory
Willie MacIver had a tiebreaking single for his first big league hit in a two-run, eighth-inning rally, then capped his debut by throwing out a runner attempting to steal for the final out as the Athletics beat Philadelphia 5-4 Sunday to stop an 11-game slide and the Phillies' nine-game winning streak. A's manager Mark Kotsay and third baseman Miguel Andujar were ejected in the seventh inning by plate umpire Roberto Ortiz with the score 3-3, angered over a called strike. Philadelphia's Trea Turner homered in the eighth off Hogan Harris for a 4-3 lead. Matt Strahm (1-3) issued a one-out walk in the bottom half to Logan Davidson, who hit a two-run double and singled for his first hits. He made a forgettable debut Saturday when he entered as a pinch runner in the 10th inning and was thrown out at the plate, was called for obstruction and ended a 9-6 loss by striking out. Lawrence Butler tied the score with a triple and MacIver singled to center. A day after blowing a ninth-inning lead, Mason Miller allowed a two-out single in the ninth to Alec Bohm. Johan Rojas pinch ran and MacIver, a 28-year-old catcher who had been in the minors since 2018, threw to shortstop Jacob Wilson, who tagged the sliding Rojas on an elbow. The A's had to wait for a video review to uphold the call. Tyler Ferguson (1-2) got his first win since Sept. 18. Miller, pitching for a third straight day for the first time in his big league career, got his 12th save in 14 chances. Wilson hit a 420-foot homer on Jesús Luzardo's first pitch as the A's built a 3-0 first-inning lead. Turner had three RBIs, including an RBI single in the third and a sacrifice fly in the fifth. Phillies starter Jesús Luzardo struck out 10 in seven innings. Key moment A day after allowing Max Kepler's tying ninth-inning homer, Miller retired him on a grounder starting the ninth before striking out Realmuto. Key stat The A's had not lost 12 straight games in a season since 1994. Up next Phillies: LHP Ranger Suárez (3-0, 3.70 ERA) starts Tuesday night at Atlanta against RHP Spencer Strider (0-2, 5.79 ERA). Athletics: LHP JP Sears (4-4, 4.00 ERA) starts Tuesday night at Houston against RHP Hunter Brown (6-3, 2.04 ERA).
