Angels 2 Athletics 1
I believe it was the late, unbelievably great Hunter S. Thompson who once wrote “once you get locked into a serious pitching duel, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.” Or maybe he didn’t write that, at least not exactly in that wording, but I feel like the basic spirit, the over-indulgence to the point of recklessness, centered on two opposing-but-necessary forces, works for describing this game.
We saw one hell of a pitching duel, there is no question about that, and you know what?