--3B Eric Chavez said he won't play until Sunday at the earliest, but Monday is more likely, especially considering the artificial surface at Toronto and Chavez's surgically repaired back and shoulders. Chavez is scheduled to take batting practice Saturday and if he also hits and throws, there's a slim chance at Sunday, but probably only in the event that the team is short on the bench. With Nomar Garciaparra back in the lineup on Friday, there's room for Chavez to take some time and wait until Monday at the new Yankee Stadium.
--LHP Josh Outman lasted only four innings in his second start of the year, and he said that while he'd moved further over on the pitching rubber to start the game, it wasn't enough. It wasn't until his final inning, when he moved even more toward third base, that Outman was able to get his fastball in effectively to right-handers. Early in the game, Marco Scutaro and Aaron Hill took Outman deep on fastballs. --DH Jason Giambi said before Tuesday's game that it would be "a treat" to meet pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III. Sullenbeger, who landed his US Airways jet on New York's Hudson River on Jan. 15, saving 155 lives, threw out the first pitch before Oakland's game with Boston. Sullenberger lives in Danville, Calif., as does Oakland GM Billy Beane, who told the San Francisco Chronicle, "I can't imagine what you could say to someone who a) has done something like that and b) already heard it all, other than to say it's an honor."
Giambi said: "It'll be a treat to meet him. Listening to the tapes, it's amazing how calm he was and how he kept it all together and saved everybody."
BY THE NUMBERS: 1 -- Home run total for Oakland through the first week of the season, the fewest in the majors. The team went homerless in the first three games for the first time since 1966. The A's 125 homers last year were fourth fewest in the league, a major reason the team brought in Matt Holliday and Jason Giambi.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "Way too much running for me early in the year. If Jack (Cust) didn't hit that ball out of the ballpark, I would've been like an auto part store out there. My hamstrings would've fallen out. My groins would've fallen out. I would've been done for the year." -- Jason Giambi on beating out an infield single after doing some extensive baserunning the previous night, too. He had to leave the April 11 game with sore legs.
