It’s the rubber game of the first series of the season. An exciting Opening Day win was followed up by an embarrassing loss for the Oakland A’s and they’ll be hoping for a better performance from their starting pitcher today.
The A’s will be trotting out top prospect Ken Waldichuk to get the A’s back in the win column. Waldichuk didn’t have the best spring this year, throwing to a 10.54 ERA in 5 games (4 starts) but all that is now out the window. This will be his 8th career start after making 7 starts last year in the final month when he was hit-and-miss for tha A’s.