ANAHEIM –- Jesse Chavez did his job on the mound Friday night.
Perhaps the tougher task came afterward, fielding questions about another game that should have finished with a ‘W’ next to his name.
The A’s suffered another doozy of a defeat, the kind that they should be numb to if only the pain wasn’t so fresh each and every time.
They used three home runs to take a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the eighth, then watched another bullpen meltdown result in a 5-4 loss to open a three-game series against the Angels. Setup man Evan Scribner gave up a tying home run to defending AL MVP Mike Trout, then two batters later gave up a go-ahead shot to Kole Calhoun.