Some quality pitching by Luis Medina and a clutch eighth inning homer by Ryan Noda helped the Oakland Athletics score a 2-1 win Thursday against the Minnesota Twins, snapping a three-game losing streak. The A’s traveled to Anaheim after the game and will face what’s left of the Angels in a three-game series which gets underway Friday.
It has been a brutal turn of events for the Angels who elected to go for it at the trade deadline only to flop down the stretch. LA is 15-37 since August 1 and have since lost Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout for the remainder of the season.