The A’s outscored their opponents 30-28 this past week, but went 2-3 with wins in a 16-6 blowout of the Dodgers and a 2-1 pitchers' duel in which Sean Manaea bested Felix Hernandez. While the A’s haven’t had many pitching performances like Manaea’s, the offense is showing what it can do when a few players get hot.



Davis busts his slump



When we last checked in on Khris Davis, he was putting up a lot of zeroes from the cleanup spot. Since then, he’s balanced things out with four home runs in his last four games to bring his season line up to .258/.329/.548. That’s very close to where he ended up last year, when he hit .281/.336/.528.



We think of batted ball luck as whether or not a groundball finds a hole, but it’s at least as dramatic with power hitters and whether their hits in the air clear the fence. It’s certainly possible that something was off with Davis’ timing or that his health wasn’t 100...