OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Chas McCormick #6 of the Houston Astros slides safely under pitcher Reymin Guduan #61 of the Oakland Athletics after Guduan threw a wild pitch and McCormick scored from third base in the eighth inning at RingCentral Coliseum on April 03, 2021 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
This last series against the Astros sucked. There is no artful way of wording it. The pitchers didn’t pitch well, the hitters didn’t hit well, and when a member of the lineup seemed to be finding a groove, the baseball gods deemed it unacceptable, and injury would quickly find that player.