LAS VEGAS, June 15 -- There were 8,532 people in the building Saturday night, a crowd that would barely fill the corners of a true major league park, and they watched the Athletics do the thing they cannot seem to stop doing. Down a run with two outs in the sixth, a team without a settled city scored three times and won again, 7-5 over the Colorado Rockies, a fourth straight comeback in a season that keeps refusing to let them quit.

The inning unspooled the way the good ones do, one swing at a time after the second out should have ended it. Alika Williams, on his way to a 3-for-3 night, singled home Zack Gelof to tie the game. Then Tyler Soderstrom, sent up to pinch-hit, drove a double into the gap to score Williams and push the Athletic...