ANAHEIM — On paper, this last week was supposed to be cake.
The A’s entered the road trip with some semblance of a lead eased by visions of the tanking teams that lay ahead. The Angels aren’t supposed to win right now, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani are in and out of surgeries and half the Salt Lake Bees occupied its lineup on Tuesday.
So young players looking to prove themselves outbid a worn offense looking to keep chugging steam; the A’s fell to the Angels, 3-2.