OAKLAND, Calif. – The most uplifting news for the Oakland A’s on Thursday was the announcement that Tony Kemp had been named the team’s nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award, the third straight year he’s been given that distinction.
Otherwise, on the field, it was mostly business as usual for the A’s, who moved that much closer to establishing a new Oakland record for futility at home over a full season.
JP Sears had his poorest big league outing of the year, allowing six earned runs in the first two innings as the A’s were handed their most lopsided loss of the season, a 14-2 boat-racing at the hands of the Chicago White Sox before a crowd of 4,591 at the Coliseum.
