The A’s cruised to an easy win over the Chicago Cubs Sunday at Hohokam Stadium. Hopefully for the team, especially the pitching staff, it was a sign of things to come.
The A’s pitching staff made defeating the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs look pretty easy this afternoon, by the score of 7-2. The only offense the Cubs could muster was two early home runs off of A’s starter Sean Manaea, who took home the win.
After getting Ben Zobrist to ground out to begin the second inning and then striking out Jason Heyward, for his second strikeout of the day, Manaea allowed a pair of back-to-back solo home runs to Kyle Schwarber and then Chris Gimenez.