The A’s had to work hard to hold off the Rangers and earn a split of their four-game series yesterday. The day didn’t get much easier once they tried to leave Texas after the game.
Some big time storms blew threw Dallas late yesterday afternoon. Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reported last night that the Athletics’ charter plane was damaged when heavy winds blew some mobile stairs into their plane, damaging the wing. The A’s were still at the ballpark when it happened and ended up cooling their heels there for several hours while they waited for a replacement plane to be flown in from California.
The team wasn’t able to leave for Tampa, where they’ll take on the Rays in a three-game set starting tonight, until 10PM last night.
The kicker:
The new plane won’t hold all the A’s equipment, Steve Vucinich says, so they’ll have to have air freight a lot of it overnight. Fun times for the A’s this weekend.
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) June 10, 2019
Not the greatest road trip ever.
