Game #50: Athletics Fall on Mengden’s Big-League Return

Welcome back to the big leagues Daniel Mengden. Sorry it was not the outing any of us desired. Exiting the game in the 4^th after giving up five runs to the Indians, 3 of them homeruns, is not an ideal start. Mengden did look solid in the first, flirting with the edges of the plate on his four-seamers (a few sliders scattered throughout) that retired the side quickly: Kipnis down on a fly ball to left, Lindor on a liner to Joyce in right, and Brantley on a backhanded line shot that Pinder nabbed and threw to first for the out.