HOUSTON — By the end of the first inning Friday at Minute Maid Park, Bob Melvin’s biggest challenge was figuring out how to cover a whole game without blowing through his entire bullpen.
It was all about damage control after the Astros jumped on Jesse Hahn for seven first-inning runs en route to a 12-2 pasting of the A’s that snapped Oakland’s five-game winning streak.
“They just had some good swings off him, obviously,” Melvin said. “He got behind, breaking balls up, fastballs down the middle of the plate. Not his best outing, for sure.”
Hahn was gone after just two-thirds of an inning, the shortest start of his career.