A`s fall a game back despite two Davis homers
(MLB.com Oakland Athletics)

Such a treat this was, October baseball in August, and the A`s and Astros didn`t disappoint. After the A`s emerged victorious in the first two games to call this scintillating series theirs and pull into a first-place tie with the defending World Series champions, they fell just shy of a three-game sweep -- only after Khris Davis slammed a pair of first-pitch homers off Oakland`s nemesis of postseasons past, Justin Verlander, in a 9-4 defeat at the Coliseum on Sunday.