Game #71: A's 0, Rockies 7

June 19, 2006 | A's @ Colorado

What a big letdown! The 10-game winning streak ends when the A's can't score a single run.

• My favorite, Dan Haren, falls to 6-6. Yes, he gave up a two-run HR in the bottom of the 1st, but the five other runs are not his fault. And when you get zero run support, how can anyone expect you to win?

• I'm disappointed by Swisher's fielding error, though the guy doesn't err much. I'm much more disappointed about Crosby grounding into a double play in the top of the 8th that killed the A's rally.

• And Mike Rouse's leaping catches continue to dazzle. He looks like Ashton Kutcher... And let me get something straight: when I say a baseball player resembles a good-looking movie actor, I mean it as a compliment whether or not I like the movie actor. I do it as a cultural gesture that I know you'd get.

• Jay Witasick, tsk, tsk. I don't like this guy. Last year in Baltimore, I went to BP and witnessed Witasick asking a little boy questions that had to be answered correctly before Witasick would autograph a baseball. He asked the kid, "What's my birthday?" Of course the kid couldn't answer! Who cares when your birthday is, Jay Witasick, you're not Barry Zito!

So then he asked, "What day of the week is it?" Eventually he autographed the baseball, but I think he's a jerk. So Witasick's performance tonight -- a third of an inning, three walks and a hit, four earned runs -- matches my contempt for him.

• And I don't know where to begin with Scott Sauerback. So let me just end instead by saying he better pitch phenomenally well if he doesn't want to be continually mocked for his May 30 arrest due to fleeing and hiding in the bushes when police came after him and the drunk woman who was driving his car.

For giving up a hit and a walk and getting NO outs for the A's in that horrible 8th inning, here's Scott Sauerbeck's mug shot.


I'm not the first one to mock Sauerbeck in this blog. See Game 59.

(Game experience: Some radio then TV.)

A's record: 38-32 | streak: L-1 | well-A-meter: 2