Just like we drew it up, present ace Trevor Cahill duked it out with past and maybe future ace Chris Archer, because baseball is weird.
Through the first five innings, Cahill threw only 59 pitches, allowing just two hits and striking out five. Archer threw 68 pitches in that time, allowing three A’s hits and striking out seven.
Don’t get me wrong: the A’s could have scored in those first 5 innings. In the fourth, Semien led off with a single, but got caught stealing fora strike-him-out, throw-him-out double play; Matt Olson followed Jed Lowrie’s strikeout with a double, which likely would have scored Semien from first.