Athletics Nation · May 25, 2021
Game #49: A’s strike out against Mariners
Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty ImagesOver the course of six months, every baseball team will play a few stinkers, and the Oakland A’s had one of their on Monday night.
Everything was not quite good enough in a 4-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners, opening a three-game series at the Coliseum.
On the mound, it seemed like Frankie Montas should have had a pretty good game. He struck out 11 of his 27 batters, and he should have had two more Ks but got squeezed hard by the umpire’s stingy strike zone. Seattle only hit the ball meaningfully hard against him four times. And yet somehow, he exited the game trailing 4-1.