The better half of Oakland’s middle relief corps would leave the ballpark bruised and bloodied this evening as the baseball gods and an unlikely hero formed a deadly alliance to put the Athletics down.
The game started off normally enough (by 2018’s standards) as 5 total pitchers were used to get through the first 5 innings of the game between the two organizations. On one side, the A’s opened with a quick and efficient Liam Hendriks before receiving 4 solid innings from Daniel Mengden. Meanwhile, the Angels started the recently reinstated Tyler Skaggs who was on a pitch count.