As a Giants fan, I rarely watch any A's baseball or American League baseball for that matter, the only time I watch American League baseball is on FOX during the postseason, if I am intrigued enough by the Sunday Night Baseball matchup on ESPN, or when the A's play the Giants at the Oakland Collesium.  That being said, I don't know much about the strategy that is played in the American League in terms of sacrifice bunting, hitting and running, and stealing, that whole moving the runners type of deal. I've absolutely seen "small ball" played by numerous American League teams, most especially by the Angels with Mike Scocia at the managing helm, and more recently at AT&T Park this season when the Giants were swept by the Chicago White Sox in mid May.  However, tonight's ballgame was a distinct example of the lack of execution in the American League due to Oakland's Bobby Crosby's inability to lay down a sacrifice bunt with Kurt Suzuki at second base and nobody out. The following hitter, Carlos Gomez drove a deep flyball that landed in the mitt of right fielder Randy Winn, which would have scored Suzuki, if Crosby had executed the bunt. The point I'm getting at is that how many hitters in the American League are asked to lay down a sacrifice bunt? I know they are major league hitters and bunting should be apart of their repitoire, but Bobby Crosby looked terrible attempting to sacrifice Suzuki to third base. I guess I just prefer the low scoring, scratch out one run, 1-0, 2-1 types of games. Go Giants! Go Sanchez.