NEW YORK -- Despite producing a tremendous stat line through the first two months of the season, Matt Olson appeared to be one of the more overlooked players when it came to All-Star voting. After showcasing his talents on one of baseball’s biggest stages over the weekend, he might not be flying under the radar for too much longer.

Olson provided the A’s an early lead on Sunday afternoon by sending a 1-0 fastball from Jordan Montgomery to the top of the netting over Monument Park at Yankee Stadium in straightaway center. The first-inning solo blast was his 20th home run of the year, which ranks third among American League batters. But that run was all the A’s would get in a 2-1 loss to the Yankees.

A scorching month for Olson only continued to heat up amid the hot and humid weather in the Bronx. Collecting six hits over the three-game series in New York, including a pair of homers, Olson is now batting .431 (28-for-65) with four doubles, seven home runs and 20 RBIs over 17 games in June.

The two-hit effort on Sunday also pushed Olson’s overall batting average to a team-leading .305.

“In this day and age, you don’t typically see power hitters hitting .300,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said. “He’s hitting lefties. He’s shooting the ball the other way. He’s doing everything.”

The days of being surprised by Olson’s excellence on both sides of the ball are long gone for those who have been around him since his arrival to the Majors in 2017. Sean Manaea, who took a tough-luck loss on a day in which he racked up a career-high 11 strikeouts and looked dominant through five innings, has grown accustomed to what the two-time Gold Glove-winning first baseman has been doing.

“The dude is a monster,” Manaea said. “He’s been unbelievable since he was called up in 2017. It’s nice that people are starting to recognize that. Every day, he just brings it. I’m glad he’s my teammate and I don’t have to face him.”

The rest of Oakland’s offense struggled to get much going against Yankees pitching. However, there were a couple of instances in which the A’s came no more than a couple of feet away from reversing their fortunes with one swing of the bat.

Olson nearly homered again in his second at-bat. Crushing a towering fly ball with two runners on and two outs in the third, the crowd of 27,807 fans at Yankee Stadium collectively held its breath as it watched a ball that was struck 101.2 mph off the bat take flight. But Clint Frazier raced back and made the catch just in front of the first row of seats beyond the short porch in right.

Then, trailing by one run in the eighth, Matt Chapman crushed a ball to deep left that came just a few inches away from leaving the yard for a game-tying solo shot with one out. Though it still ended up a triple, Chapman was left stranded on third.

“It ended up being a game of inches, literally,” Melvin said. “It was close in the fact that Oly just missed a three-run homer and Chapman just missed two home runs.”

Manaea kept the Yankees scoreless until his 98th and final pitch of the day, when Gary Sánchez drove a go-ahead two-run double to right with one out in the sixth. Prior to that moment, the left-hander dazzled by missing plenty of bats, generating a career-high 24 whiffs (swing and misses). He did that while solely throwing two pitches -- his fastball and changeup.

With just two runs allowed over 5 1/3 innings, Manaea’s ERA now ranks seventh-best among AL starters at 3.01.

It will be difficult for a Major League team to endure a more heartbreaking end to a game than the A’s went through on Sunday. Forming a threat in the ninth against Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman after Jed Lowrie and Tony Kemp led off with back-to-back walks, Sean Murphy came to the plate with a golden opportunity. Swinging at the first pitch after Chapman had just thrown eight of his first nine pitches for balls, Murphy grounded out right to third baseman Gio Urshela, who began a game-ending triple play -- the Yanks’ third of the season.

“If you’re around long enough, you see everything,” Melvin said. “I’ve never seen a game end like that before. It felt like we had [Chapman] on the ropes. We had a guy up there that is really good against left-handed pitching. He just ends up hitting it in the wrong spot. You don’t see that very often.”