With a 6–4 win over the White Sox in Game 3 of the Wild Card Series, the Oakland Athletics captured their first postseason series victory since 2006.

The smile never left Liam Hendriks’s face as he discussed his key role in the A’s first postseason series win since 2006. It couldn’t—he was wearing a mask emblazoned with his own gap-toothed grin.

The look was a definite improvement over his attire just a few minutes earlier. The A’s celebrated their 6–4 win in Game 3 of the American League Wild Card Series the way they have celebrated every other win this season: They drag around the sort of putting mat you might find in a CEO’s office and ask the MVP of the game to hole out. Hendriks likes to make his attempts in the nude.

Fully clothed and just off a bogey, Oakland’s closer addressed the media over Zoom.