The Oakland A’s dropped their Cactus League game 7-3 to the Cleveland Indians on Monday. Let’s run through some positives and negatives, without putting too much stock in spring training results in either direction.
The good news begins with starting pitcher Chris Bassitt, who made his second appearance of the spring. For the second time he was wonderful, working into the 4th inning and striking out one-third of the batters he faced. He reached his pitch count before finishing the 4th, but only allowed one run along the way, on back-to-back extra-base hits in the 2nd.