OAKLAND – A’s pitching coach Curt Young has a simple take-away in regard to the costly homers that Sean Doolittle has given up so far this season.
“It usually comes down to location,” Young said before Wednesday’s game against the Angels. “His velocity has been good. Just by the naked eye, the life on his fastball is very good. But it does come down to location. He’s a guy who, I’ll say, scatters the ball around the strike zone. He goes down and away, he goes up. You think about last night, he was on location, he was on the glove, where he was going.