HOUSTON — Andrew Triggs keeps checking off all the right boxes in his first season as a major league starting pitcher.
Coming into the year, manager Bob Melvin said the right-hander’s biggest challenge would be retiring lefty hitters. He’s done that splendidly.
On Saturday, the A’s needed to see if Triggs could bounce back after his first rough outing of 2017. He responded with the best of his 11 career starts, holding a potent Astros lineup off the scoreboard for seven innings as the A’s registered a 2-1 victory that snapped their five-game losing streak.
The effective cutter that eluded Triggs when he lost to the Mariners last Sunday was back.