I’d rather devote words to the Indians than the A’s given how tonight’s game went, so I’ll keep the description mercifully short.
The A’s lost 11-1 in a callback to our series in Boston last year. As is tradition, Sean Manaea was absolutely destroyed by the Red Sox lineup, yielding 11 hits and 7 runs in less than 4 innings. At first it seemed he might just be getting unlucky, yielding mostly groundballs and soft singles - but it kept happening and the hits got harder until it became painfully obvious that Manaea was just toast. Simon Castro and Raúl Alcántara each gave up a couple runs - Castro’s partially due to an error by Dustin Garneau, and Alcántara’s on a Mookie Betts home run.