Mike Leake vs. Taylor Cole/Felix Pena, 7:07pm
The M’s open the second half against an Angels club stuck in the doldrums of mediocrity despite the presence of the game’s most transcendent talent. And that should probably be talents, plural, given the way Shohei Ohtani is going about his TJ surgery rehab by beating up on AL pitching. Ohtani’s now 585 PAs into his MLB career, roughly one full season. His slash line in that time is .292/.358/.567. While healthy, he was pushing 11 K/9 as a starter. And in that time, a time in which Mike Trout was worth nearly 16 fWAR and 14 bWARP, the Angels are now a cumulative 3 games below .