With as much bad injury luck as the team has had this year, the A’s have undeniably had incredible luck calling up minor-leaguers – veteran and not – to join the rotation.
Chris Bassitt, who hadn’t pitched in the Majors since undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2016, was no exception.
Despite a few hits in the first two innings, Bassitt was able to get in control of his curveball and cutters, and get his fastball down in the zone early in the count, and thus ended his day having only yielded one run (final line: 7.0 innings, 3 hits, 1 run, 1 walk, 6 Ks, 93 pitches).