There’s a reason the A’s, despite all their struggles, are outperforming the Angels currently: where the Angels went deep on pitching, assembling a decent-ish buffet of starters and a very deep bullpen, the A’s put a bunch of big bopping boys in their lineup and told them to swing away. Do they strike out a lot? Yes! But also, sometimes they don’t, and today those big beefy bopping boys bopped beefily, bludgeoning the Blahriners with their bombastic bats to a 5-4 loss.
While the vibes are currently more rancid than the forgotten head of lettuce I just dug out of my vegetable drawer in preparation for trash day, it was not always so!