WE ARE WHO WE ARE

This one started with hope and ended with people staring into the distance. The A’s jumped out early behind a two-run blast from Shea Langeliers and later built a 3-1 lead, looking ready to punch back after yesterday’s disappointment. Langeliers stayed scorching hot with two home runs, Nick Kurtz kept finding hits, and the offense did enough early to put pressure on Cleveland. For five innings, this looked like a team ready to respond. Then baseball turned into a horror film. The fifth inning cracked the foundation, and the late innings demolished the house. Cleveland scored four in the fifth, added one in the sixth, three in the seventh, three more in the eighth, and two in the ninth. That’s a 12-run avalanche while the A’s pitching staff sprayed walks, hit batters, wild pitches, and bad vibes everywhere. The bullpen door opened and apparently so did the floodgates. Two straight games where things unraveled badly, and now the A’s need answers fast before this series becomes a full-blown crime scene.