MLB's Most Shocking Playoff Team, Young, inexpensive, and with an offense that gets by, the A's win the AL West on the final day. Youthful Oakland A's pull off 'shocker,' win AL West on final day of MLB season, There is no perfect explanation for the Oakland A's as champions of the American League West, having run the twice-defending AL champions off the field on Wednesday afternoon in this old, dark, creepy stadium.
So, you go for the metaphor.
The celebration had wound down toward something like sanity. They'd sent the Texas Rangers into the most frightening game in sports, three hours that will validate 162 games of work, or not. They'd come back from 13 games over three months, from five games over nine days.
The economical, anonymous, ratty-assed A's had done all this. On Wednesday they went down 5-1 in the game that might determine the rest of their October, then scored the next 11 runs, and they drank to that. They drank to themselves, whoever they are, and they filled their clubhouse with cigar smoke, and they tried not to look at the guy running around in the leopard bikini underwear.
So, you go for the metaphor.
The celebration had wound down toward something like sanity. They'd sent the Texas Rangers into the most frightening game in sports, three hours that will validate 162 games of work, or not. They'd come back from 13 games over three months, from five games over nine days.
The economical, anonymous, ratty-assed A's had done all this. On Wednesday they went down 5-1 in the game that might determine the rest of their October, then scored the next 11 runs, and they drank to that. They drank to themselves, whoever they are, and they filled their clubhouse with cigar smoke, and they tried not to look at the guy running around in the leopard bikini underwear.
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