Detroit, MI (Sports Network) – Oakland Athletics pitcher Bartolo Colon was activated off the 15-day disabled list after recovering from a groin strain.<\/p>\n
Colon hadn’t pitched since Aug. 13, but started Thursday’s series-finale against Detroit, a 7-6 loss for the Athletics.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old right-hander was in line for his 15th win and worked five innings in his 400th career start, giving up just one run on seven hits in the no-decision. The Tigers, though, scored four times in the bottom of the ninth and won the game on Torii Hunter’s three-run homer off Grant Balfour.<\/p>\n
Colon had struggled in two starts prior to landing on the DL, surrendering 10 earned runs on 14 hits over just 6 2\/3 innings. His record this season stands at 14-5 with a 2.94 ERA in 25 starts.<\/p>\n
Right-hander Evan Scribner was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento to open a roster spot. Scribner has no record with a 5.03 ERA in 13 relief appearances over four stints with the Athletics this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Detroit, MI (Sports Network) – Oakland Athletics pitcher Bartolo Colon was activated off the 15-day disabled list after recovering from a groin strain. Colon hadn’t pitched since Aug. 13, but started Thursday’s series-finale against Detroit, a 7-6 loss for the Athletics. The 40-year-old right-hander was in line for his 15th win and worked five innings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,40,39],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}