If Seth Brown was stressed out over the birth of his firstborn son, one could not tell in his Friday night return from the paternity list.
Brown stepped into the batter’s box in the sixth inning and hammered a Lance Lynn pitch into the Chicago stands for a solo home run. He then hit another line drive home run in the top of the eighth and added to a 7-3 A’s win over the host White Sox.
Ramon Laureano should have been out by a proverbial mile when he grounded the ball to third in the second inning, but Chicago’s 2020 MVP Jose Abreu literally dropped the ball from third and put the A’s slugger on base. This mistake cost Chicago a few moments later, when Lynn’s former St. Louis teammate Stephen Piscotty ripped his fifth home run of the season over the wall.
