I don’t want to make any pithy comments about addition by subtraction, but let’s just say that Brett Anderson left the game after the first inning, so please note the one run allowed accordingly. Warming up before the second inning, Anderson pointed to his shoulder and off he went, leaving the A’s thin bullpen to clean up eight innings without him.
Josh Lucas was the real pitching hero of the game; he was called up today and did nothing except hurl just one out shy of 4 innings of two hit, one run ball, allowing just the one run in the fifth, while striking out seven.