OAKLAND — Like every starting pitcher, Andrew Triggs is a fan of quick innings.
Quick exits don’t sit so well with him.
The Washington Nationals struck for six runs in the seventh and eighth innings to turn Friday’s game into a laugher as they routed the A’s 13-3. Triggs was long gone by then, and his short night of work ate at him afterward.
The right-hander struggled through his shortest start of the season, 3 2/3 innings, and was charged with six runs on nine hits.
“I just couldn’t stop the merry-go-round. That can’t happen,” he said of a four-run fourth inning in which the Nats sent 10 batters to the plate.