There would be several more vocal outbursts from the visiting side in that same inning. The exit velocity was 112.1 mph, the highest of Pinder’s career, and led to the loudest collective roar of the afternoon from the A’s dugout. Peralta’s first pitch was a 95 mph fastball right down the middle, and Chad Pinder hit a screamer to left that landed about 20 rows deep. That’s when Gabe Kapler was forced to bring in Wandy Peralta, because the A’s did what they always seem to and caused Giants starter Logan Webb’s pitch count to rise too quickly. The fifth inning started innocently enough, with Sean Murphy walking and Marcus Semien lining out to right. I think he made the comment too, that’s about as far as he’s ever hit a ball. It looked like if it was over a little bit, it was headed for the glove. Not even in BP that I’ve seen the ball go up there. “I’ve seen a couple balls probably (land) a couple rows from the top (of the bleachers),” Bob Melvin said. Well, except in the case of Stephen Piscotty’s gargantuan blast, which soared over the bleachers and ended up near the play structure underneath the oversized soda bottle at Oracle Park. The lack of fans contributed, to an extent - but not as much as the way in which the A’s sent liners over the head of center fielder Mauricio Dubón and peppered the bleachers in left. The A’s feasted much earlier Sunday afternoon, as their nine-run explosion in the fifth inning turned a 2-2 game into a laugher and created a scene that felt more like early batting practice than an actual game. In the first two games of the Bay Bridge Series, it took until the ninth inning for the A’s to really sink their teeth into the Giants’ bullpen.
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