Baseball is full of silver linings, some real and some manufactured. It’s accepted and even encouraged to draw any positive experiences from a rough night at the ballpark, and so it goes for Jharel Cotton.
Cotton’s first start of the season was the worst in his short career, but he could look back on the A’s 5-0 loss to the Angels and fondly recall how he handled baseball’s best player.
On an otherwise gloomy Wednesday night at the Coliseum, Cotton stared down Mike Trout.
Not just stared him down. But struck him out. Twice. On seven pitches.