It takes a special kind of dominance, a Major-League-leading-ERA kind of dominance, to chew Mike Trout up and spit him out at-bat after at-bat, and that's what Gray did Sunday in beating the Angels for a third time in three starts against them this season. He allowed just one unearned run in 7 2/3 sharp innings in the A's 8-1 win, lowering his ERA to 1.60 and leapfrogging Gerrit Cole for the best mark in the bigs.
"Guys like him and Felix [Hernandez], you have to pray they have a bad game," said Pujols, hitter of 10 home runs in his previous 15 games, and 537 in his Hall-of-Fame career.