Final Score: Mariners 1, A's 0
I was hoping that this Easter would be a lot more "Holliday" for the A's offense and not one full of goose eggs, but it was not to be. While the team has certainly struggled to push runs across the plate in the early season thus far, no more was this fact evident than today, as the A's truly failed to threaten the Mariners in any way until the "tease me, but don't please me" 9th inning, which had Jack Cust a few feet left or right away from tying or winning the ball game.
What initially looked like could be an outing of shaky control by Trevor Cahill as he posted three walks turned into what could easily be deemed the best A's pitching show on the early campaign. He went into the 7th inning without giving up a single base hit, and gave up his one run thanks to Rajai Davis' Byrnes-like approach to a center field drive which fell for an RBI double off the bat of Mike "didn't he use to play for us?" Sweeney.
As impressive as Cahill was in forcing 12 ground ball outs to go with 6 fly outs and 3 K's was the A's early defense, who turned a pair of double plays when runners reached. But Cahill would likely have needed to complete his no hitter to keep the A's in the ballgame, as the offense notched a measly three scattered singles and a pair of walks against the M's slingers.
Yes, the A's only have one home run on the season (Cust yesterday). But they didn't even post a double today, and they only got two runners to second base all game. (Holliday in the second and Sweeney in the 9th) The equation of no power, plus a low average, and outs in the few situations that had potential, sent the A's back to the dugout not having scored, completing the Mariners' 3-game sweep.
As for Cahill, despite early misgivings within our initial game thread, he leaves with an accumulative ERA of 2.25 (and a Loss).
Well at least we haven't been getting blown out
ChadGod - April 12, 2009
Also
We really suck against lefties.
We need Nomar and Holliday to get it together, at least against lefties.
ChadGod - April 12, 2009
Maybe the plan was for Rajai to step it up.
Seriously though, was that supposed to be a platoon? Davis’ bat isn’t worth it just because a lefty happens to be pitching. Where is Buck?
scromulus - April 12, 2009
apparently the plan is to play Buck just enough so that he can never get into a rhythm.
Darryl P - April 12, 2009
A problem Michael Wuertz doesn't figure to have
Nico - April 12, 2009
No one is posting here because it isn't showing up on the front page or fanposts page
At least not for me
ChadGod - April 12, 2009
Boston almost came back in the 9th
but the Angels win 5-4.
vegAN ryAN - April 12, 2009
Oh well.
Our team always sucks in April. And it was Bedard. Holliday will get it todether. Bring on the Red Sox!
A'sfansince1970 - April 12, 2009
Lester tomorrow?
Yuk
Trainman - April 12, 2009
Braden will take him!
Don’t worry! Did you see that Mr. Street got the blown save and loss against the Phillies? Wow.
A'sfansince1970 - April 12, 2009
Yep
Good old Matty
Trainman - April 12, 2009
Wasn't a save opp for Street
Flashfire - April 12, 2009
Actually, Helloooo1st,
I prefer to “preply”!
Nico - April 12, 2009
It was Stairs?
WOW! Lovin that Canadian monster mash! Awesome!
A'sfansince1970 - April 12, 2009
Use the reply button
Helloooo 1st - April 12, 2009
thanks louis, great recap.
Darryl P - April 12, 2009
Well that was disappointing.
It’s nice to know that Cahill’s sinker is such a dominant pitch that he’s able to keep his teams in games even when the rest of his arsenal isn’t all there. You can see why they say he’s going to be special.
OldhamA - April 12, 2009
More than that
That curve ball he throws is going to make me smile for a while, I reckon
alea iacta est - April 12, 2009
The only positive thing to take from this game...
was how good Cahill looked today. He didn’t have a high pitch count going 7 innings. very impressive.
Socalfan21 - April 12, 2009
It's hard to beleive
that Cahill and Anderson may already be our best starters. If it wasn’t for Andersons second inning i dont think there would be a doubt about it.
BIGa's - April 12, 2009
I figure Anderson's second inning was a 2-run inning on his part
Walk, reasonably well hit single and double. Outside of that, he rightfully got 5-6 outs. To me he earned 2 runs from that.
Nico - April 12, 2009
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