Oakland beat Houston for the fourth time in five games on Monday, ending the Astros’...
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - JULY 25: Lou Trivino #62 and Sean Murphy #12 of the Oakland Athletics celebrates after they defeated the Houston Astros 7-5 at RingCentral Coliseum on July 25, 2022 in Oakland, California. OAKLAND, Calif. — The Astros own an advantage no other American League team can claim, a quirk of the schedule that should set them up to sail through the second half. Ten of their final 66 games are against the A’s, a cellar-dwelling division foe mired in a miserable teardown.
Those that attended will not want to remember it. The two teams alternated awful sequences of baseball, complete with wretched starting pitching, mindless defensive blunders and a total absence of clutch hitting.The Astros finished 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position, including stranding the two tying runs in the ninth inning. After racing out to a five-run advantage, Oakland tried to hand the Astros a game it had no business winning. Houston fumbled the exchange.
Odorizzi yielded six runs across five frustrating innings. Four of them came during a dreadful fourth. Odorizzi needed 30 pitches to finish it. Assistant athletic trainer Eric Velazquez visited him amid the carnage, appearing to address a fingernail or blister issue on Odorizzi’s pitching hand. Phil Maton stranded the two baserunners and saved Odorizzi from further damage. His ERA still rose almost a full run, from 3.56 to 4.25. Oakland took 45 swings against him and whiffed five times. The A’s spoiled 20 pitches foul, too, illustrating Odorizzi’s total inability to miss bats. He did not harness enough consistency with his slider to solve Oakland’s righthanded-heavy lineup. Mistakes came at the worst time and the A’s did not miss them.
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