Except for two failed executions by LAA pitching, one belt-high fastball from Garrett Richards on a 2-2 count in the 5th, and one more of the same belt-high fastballs to the same Khris Davis on an 0-2 count in the 7th from Cam Bedrosian, yesterday was an excellent start to 2018.
Unfortunately, those two pitches now count because we are in real baseball. And those two pitches came from the two pitchers we count on the most. And the 4 runs that Oakland scored off those two mistakes counted, too. As does the L.