The 2018 AL Wild Card Game is starting in a couple hours, with the Oakland A’s facing the Yankees in New York. As a fan it’s natural to feel nervous heading into any postseason game, but for the A’s faithful there might be a bit of extra anxiety based around who will be pitching. Specifically, that we don’t know who will be pitching.
Only one thing is for certain: Liam Hendriks will open the game. He did so eight times in September, and in each one he threw a scoreless 1st inning. Once he was asked to continue into the 2nd inning, but that didn’t go as well.