Jerry McDonald has been with the Bay Area News Group for more than 30 years, with a heavy concentration of NFL football since the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995. His all-time favorite athlete is a right-handed pitcher at Division III Linfield College in Oregon.
Athletics pitcher Aaron Brooks delivers in the first inning after being called up to start against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park.Remember when the Athletics were a .500 team? It wasn’t that long ago, May 4 to be exact, after a win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Brooks gave up seven hits and three earned runs in seven innings with a walk and five strikeouts. As was the case in his eight Triple-A starts in Las Vegas, Brooks did not allow a home run and 60 of his 84 pitches were strikes. The A’s got the tying run to the plate in the top of the ninth when Brent Rooker reached on an error by Alex Bregman and Tyler Soderstrom walked. The rally ended when Shea Langeliers grounded into a double play for the final outs.
A Kansas City Royals ninth-round draft pick in 2011, Brooks eventually made the Royals and was traded to the A’s on July 28, 2015 along with Sean Manaea in exchange for Ben Zobrist. The A’s shipped him to the Chicago Cubs before the start of the 2016 season only to return to Oakland in 2018 for cash considerations.
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