Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Jonah Heim came off the bench with the Athletics down to their final out and slugged a game-tying two-run home run to right field. No, this isn’t a recap of their wild extra-inning game against the Brewers last week at Las Vegas Ballpark, when Heim pinch-hit for Lawrence Butler and launched a dramatic homer to tie it. Thrust into nearly the exact same scenario Friday night at Sutter Health Park, Heim did it again. With the A’s trailing by two with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Heim was summoned as a pinch-hitter for Colby Thomas and crushed a 99.2 mph sinker from Angels reliever Sam Bachman for a game-tying two-run blast over the right-field wall, sending the A’s dugout and everyone inside the ballpark into a frenzy. Unlike last week, however, Heim’s heroics did not go for naught. The A’s came all the way back from what was an 11-4 deficit entering the bottom of the sixth to snatch an unlikely victory in the 10th inning, with Nick Kurtz’s walk-off walk completing a 12-11 win over the Halos. Before Friday, the A’s last comeback win when trailing by seven or more runs was July 24, 2018, when they overcame an eight-run deficit against the Rangers in Texas. A’s manager Mark Kotsay was in the dugout for that one as a quality control coach. This time around, he was watching the late-inning dramatics unfold from a TV inside his office due to being ejected from the game in the bottom of the second inning after arguing balls and strikes.
