It was a tough task, the tallest of orders, to turn around after Saturday’s offensive outburst and face Masahiro Tanaka and his pretty solid 1.10 WHIP, although his ERA is inflated.
Shohei Ohtani made the lineup card, but it was barebones, chilled right down to the nerve of this Angels team. With Justin Upton taking a recovery day after being hit in the hand and Albert Pujols getting a day off, the 5-through-9 hitters featured these hitters with these stat lines coming into Sunday:
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When you put it like that, the offense was naturally pathetic, stemming from the root of the disease.