OAKLAND — Ryan Dull wasn’t searching for excuses after Tuesday’s game.
Ahead 0-2 on Danny Espinosa with two on and one out in the ninth, he tried to bury a slider and get the Angels second baseman to chase.
He didn’t get it low enough, and Espinosa launched a three-run homer that served the A’s a 7-6 loss, their first defeat of 2017 and along with it, their first heartbreaker.
The night before, Dull had struck out Espinosa using the same pitch.
“I gotta get it a little bit lower, especially with him. He hit 24 homers (last year) for a reason,” Dull said.