Athletics drop to Dodgers to drop to 0-6 in 2021, tying worst initiate in franchise history

Is it too wearisome to hit restart on the 2021 MLB season? The Oakland Athletics hope no longer. The A’s misplaced again Tuesday evening, this time to the Los Angeles Dodgers (LAD 5, OAK 1). Oakland is now 0-6 on the younger season. 0-6!

A 3-bustle third inning did Oakland in Tuesday evening. Max Muncy and Edwin Rios both took Chris Bassitt deep in that frame.

Since the 0-6 file is now not all the time sinful ample, the A’s had been getting blown out nearly every evening. They’ve been outscored 50-13 — 50-13! — in their six games, and they’ve misplaced all six by no lower than 4 runs. Four instances they’ve misplaced by no lower than seven runs.

“I don’t see a clubhouse where guys are moping round. Factual the opposite, if truth be told. They must lunge available in the market and glean a dangle,” A’s manager Bob Melvin advised newshounds, including Kylen Mills of KRON4, before Tuesday’s game.

Of their six games this season, the Athletics have held a lead for one inning. No longer up to that, if truth be told. They took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first Tuesday evening for their first lead of the season, however the Dodgers tied the game three batters into the damage of the 2d. Ouch.

The 0-6 initiate matches the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics for the worst initiate in franchise history. The A’s went 36-117 that year, the worse file in franchise history and a few of the worst records in baseball history total.

Oakland is the first workforce to initiate a season 0-6 since the 2016 Twins. Minnesota began 0-9 that year and performed with baseball’s worst file at 59-103.

It will get no less complicated for the Athletics. They will try again to dangle their first game of the season Wednesday afternoon against reigning NL Cy Younger winner Trevor Bauer.

The Braves are baseball’s totally various soundless-winless workforce at 0-4.