Actually today’s game could have been a bigger win. There was a base running debacle in the third inning. The story goes something like this: Josh Hamilton should have gotten to second on a missed cut-off man. Then after that, on a blown double play chance, Dave Anderson supposedly stopped Josh from scoring. But I was watching when this unfolded. Everybody is saying we were screwed by our aggressiveness. Josh seemed absent again. Completely while he was on in the third. More symptoms of something else. I know he is taking a beating from fans right now and while we don’t all agree on the extent of the problem and with some crackpot fans thrown into the mix, it can’t be lost on everyone that we all KNOW something ain’t right. Mike Olt had his first two major league RBI’s but had an error later in the game. Nothing hurt by that and just another part of Mike’s education at first base.
Scott Feldman has passed the fluke stage. He’s for real. Again. He battled. He never appeared to lose his composure even though he got into a couple of jams. He had his first walk in 24 innings today. I know there is a little extra pressure on him, as this appears to be an ongoing audition. Mike Adams got a key strikeout in the eighth. That was huge on a different level because Adams has been struggling of late. It wasn’t a chap K either. That was one of KC’s best hitters. Then Alexi Ogando came on for his second save chance and two days and except for a weak lead-off single, it was lights out.
I watched the last five innings of the Angels-White Sox game and Kevin Youklis is also a pain in the Angels ass. That was nice when he hit the two-run bomb to tie the game, but ultimately the White Sox couldn’t finish the job. The A’s played their second extra inning game in a row and came up on the short end of a 3-1 game and fell to 5.5 games back of the Rangers. They have closer problems right now. I was hoping the Angels had suffered the same fate but Fierri got it done for the Angels.
Tomorrow it’s Holland Vs Hochevar as we look for the sweep and fifth straight win before heading into Boston. No off-day in between but we will get one on Thursday before opening a weird three-game home stand against the Tigers.
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