The A's were fun last week. The A's are not fun this week.
For the first three frames, Daniel Mengden was dominant. He sat down the first 10 he saw, striking out four. Yulieski Gurriel broke up the perfect game with a single past a diving Semien in the fourth, but after some more fine pitching, the A's made it out of that frame unscathed.
There have been times, especially later in Mengden's rookie campaign, where he's looked just utterly hittable. There have been times where a swing and miss seems like an impossibility and where you really have to wonder, does he have the stuff?