A’s To Open Up Season (Again) On Thursday
Mar 27, 2019, 5:15 AM
(Photo by Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
(Photo by Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
Opening Day comes with many feelings and emotions for the teams of Major League Baseball. Hope, joy, optimism, and in the case of the Oakland Athletics, deja vu.
The A’s will have their unofficial “second” Opening Day on Thursday when Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels come to Oakland Coliseum. After traveling to Japan to play their first two regular season games in the midst of an Ichiro Suzuki sendoff, Oakland returns home in an 0-2 hole after dropping both contests. The A’s lost by finals of 9-7 and 5-4 respectively to the Seattle Mariners in Tokyo. The offense was active in Japan, led by Marcus Semien who went 4-for-8 over the two-game series with two runs batted in. The Athletics saw home runs from Khris Davis, Matt Chapman and Stephen Piscotty in Tokyo, looking to continue their power surge from last season that saw the squad bash 227 home runs.
They will look to recapture those feelings of excitement and optimism on Thursday and get back on track against an Angels team that has not won an Opening Day game since 2013.
Back in Oakland, doing what we do best 💥 pic.twitter.com/YitQMfk1jx
— Oakland Athletics 🌳🐘⚾️ (@Athletics) March 24, 2019
Game Details
Thursday, March 28, 2019 – 1:07 PT
Oakland Coliseum – Oakland, California
Radio – Sports 1140 KHTK
TV – NBC Sports California
Probables
Trevor Cahill (LAA) vs Mike Fiers (OAK)
- Cahill, a former Athletic, went 7-4 with a 3.76 ERA last season for Oakland.
- Fiers, who started Opening Day in Tokyo, struck out three and gave up five earned runs over 3.0 innings in his first start of the season.
Players to Watch
- Mike Trout quietly signed a 12-year, $426 million dollar mega-deal on March 2o, the largest deal in the history of North American professional sports. Trout has been a monster for the Angels, winning two MVP awards before his 28th birthday.
- Marcus Semien will look to continue his hot start on Thursday. Semien, fresh off of a year that saw him hit 15 home runs, has never faced Trevor Cahill.
