The 5 Most Heartbreaking Games of the Oakland Athletics’ Stretch Run

A season that began with so much promise ended with the Oakland Athletics skidding into the last wild-card spot then heading home after a marathon game that seemed to sum up the year as a whole.

The A's were 72-44 on August 9, four games ahead of the Los Angeles Angels and outscoring opponents by nearly 100 runs more than the next-best team. But a power outage at the plate combined with a shaky bullpen saw Oakland finish the season 16-30, falling 10 games behind the Angels in the process.

Oakland lost a surprising amount of close games to bad teams, all too often at the hands of replacement-level players or young guys up for cups of coffee in September....

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