There's buzz going around the reason Bob Melvin didn't discuss his Game 5 starter, if there is a Game 5, is because it may be Sonny Gray instead of Bartolo Colon. But as I say, that's buzz which is not the same as news. Melvin never said it.
They just had the pregame media interviews. One writer asked Bob Melvin if Bartolo Colon will start Game 5 if there is a Game 5. Melvin shot back in his chair like someone blasted him in the gut with a Smith and Wesson .38. He looked horrified like Dracula after [...]
It's an hour before Game 3 between the A's and Tigers. Downtown Detroit is overcast, in the 60s, the sky ominous. Jarrod Parker pitches for the A's. He is a good pitcher who has not pitched well against Detroit. On the other hand, the Tigers have not hit at all [...]
Here is a link to my column on Game 2, A's vs. Tigers. The full text appears below. OAKLAND — There was a feeling of the inevitable to Game 2 — A's vs. Tigers. A feeling that Sonny Gray would throw zeroes until the end of time and Justin Verlander, [...]
Here is a link to my Saturday column about Game 1 between the A's and Tigers. The full text appears below. OAKLAND -- This was not a despair game, the first game of the League Division Series, A’s against the Tigers. If you’re an A’s fan remember that. The game [...]
Here is a link to my Friday column about the A's-Tigers match-up. The full text appears below. OAKLAND — The Oakland A’s can beat the Detroit Tigers in the five-game League Division Series starting tonight at the Coliseum. I am not saying the A’s will beat the Tigers. I am [...]
Here is a link to my Thursday column about Bob Melvin and Billy Beane: You also can read the complete text below By LOWELL COHN THE PRESS DEMOCRAT OAKLAND — It was a bad look for the Oakland A’s. Two outs away from a win against the Angels. Chance to [...]
Here is the opening to my Monday column about the Oakland A's: OAKLAND — Baseball happens today. Sure, it’s been happening for months. But today is different. The Texas Rangers come to Oakland to play the A’s, to play for supremacy in the American League West — more on supremacy [...]
Here is the opening from my column about the A's after they beat the Angels on Sunday: OAKLAND — Certain life mysteries are impossible to explain. Like what's on the other side of the universe? How does the Holy Trinity work? Why is New York pizza so much better than [...]
Here is the opening to my Wednesday column: You generally don’t associate the words “sewage” and “baseball,” but that combo is now all the rage. On Sunday, the plumbing backed up at the O.Co. Coliseum and stuff invaded the home and visiting clubhouses. The A’s and visiting Mariners had to [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.