Angels 7 Athletics 3
An Alex Meyer start can be quite the emotional rollercoaster; your brain riding an endless sine wave of elated peaks and frustrated valleys. He’ll show you brilliance and swagger and power, and then next inning or next start he’ll show you ineptitude and failure. Luckily for Alex Meyer, and for the Angels, and us fans, Yunel Escobar flexed enough muscle tonight that Meyer could afford to go on and be his bad (sometimes figuratively, sometimes literally) pitching self.
Tonight, the Angels started off their second game of this Oakland series with a bang, as Albert Pujols mashed a homer off of A’s starter Jharel Cotton.