Today at the Coliseum, it didn’t matter whether Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson were sitting down the left field line or not because Sean Manaea was straight dealing.
And Indians’ starting pitcher, Trevor Bauer, was not.
What took Bauer and reliever Dan Otero 45 pitches to complete [the first inning], it took Manaea 11. In fact, when Manaea retired Brandon Guyer, the game’s first batter, Coliseum Public Address Announcer Dick Callahan hadn’t yet announced that the official first pitch start was indeed 1:07.
By the end of his 3rd frame, the A’s [likely] next ace had dispatched of the Tribe’s first 9 batters in just 37 pitches, allowing only an infield single to Francisco Lindor in the first inning when Matt Chapman was unable to make his best Brooks Robinson impression.