Barry Bonds — from the achieves

The Barry Bonds show will be in full tilt in the next of weeks. As he approaches the homerun title, there will be many bashers saying he doesn’t deserve it. There will be hometown fans that will be on top of their seats waiting to applaud. There will be casual fans who only…

Day 10: LA Angels 4 Oakland 1

The A’s only advanced one runner past second based as Matt Shoemaker outdueled Eric Surkamp and the Angels swept the series. This loss was pretty ugly — the lone highlight was Marcus Semien’s fourth home run of the season.

Day 9 LA Angels 5 Oakland 4

Billy Burns had two hits, steals and runs. Josh Reddick drove him in on two occassions. Marcus Semien hit a pair of home runs. All was well until the top of the eighth when Ryan Madsen surrendered runs for the first time in 16 appearances; and again in the ninth when Sean Doolittle gave up a…