The Athletics anticipated having one of the most potent offenses in baseball this season. Of course, that prognostication did not account for losing four of their top sluggers to potential season-ending injuries. There are a combined total of 73 home runs hit this season on the injured list between the absences of Nick Kurtz, Shea Langeliers, Tyler Soderstrom and Brent Rooker. Despite that, the A’s showed Friday night that there is still plenty of thump left in this lineup by putting on the type of power display not seen in ages. A 7-6 victory over the Mariners at T-Mobile Park was highlighted by a five-run third inning that featured home runs by Max Muncy, Alika Williams, Jeff McNeil and Zack Gelof. All four long balls came off Seattle starter and longtime A’s nemesis Logan Gilbert, who was bounced out of the game after matching a season-high seven runs allowed across just 4 2/3 innings. Muncy got the homer surge started, leading off the third by swatting a first-pitch fastball low in the zone from Gilbert over the wall in left a Statcast-projected 349 feet. From there, three of the next five batters went yard, each homer going longer than the previous and culminating in Gelof’s 398-foot solo blast to left. “I feel like we were just passing the baton to the next guy up and just taking really good swings,” said Gelof, who also drilled a go-ahead triple off Gilbert in the fifth after Seattle came back to tie the game at 5-5. “It was just awesome as an offense that \[the Mariners\
