A’s fall again, one loss from 100
To stave off a 100-loss season, the A’s will need to beat Shohei Ohtani on Thursday night.
They were beaten Wednesday night by Michael Lorenzen, Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels. The 4-1 loss put the A’s (56-99) within one loss of becoming just the second team in Oakland’s 54-year history to lose 100 games. The 1979 went 54-108 under manager Jim Marshall.
Cole Irvin (9-12, 4.05) will start for the A’s against Ohtani (14-8, 2.47), who has struck out 203 batters in 153 innings.
The A’s struck out eight times in five innings against Lorenzen and didn’t score after the first inning.
Trout homered in the fourth inning to tie the game, his 38th homer in a season in which he missed 42 games to injury. The Angels scored twice more in the inning off Adrian Martinez (4-6).