2011 Oakland A's

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As the Oakland A's prepare for opening day on the road against the Angels, they just got word from team doctors that they will be without starting 3rd baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff. After diving for a groundball in the last game of spring training, he said he felt 'a pop' in his shoulder. team doctors took a look and said it was dislocated and needs 1-2 months f recovery. Not good news for the A's considering they didn't resign Eric Chavez in the off-season. They had to call up Adam Rosales, who was supposed to start the season on the AAA team.

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Athletics at Angels - Angel Stadium
Apr 4, 2011	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Oakland (0-1)	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	8	1
Los Angeles (1-0)	2	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	X	7	14	1
Player of the Game: Weaver
W: Weaver 1-0 L: Anderson 0-1

Oakland Athletics
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Crisp	3	0	2	0	1	0		.666
Miles	4	0	1	0	0	0		.250
Kubel	4	0	1	0	0	2		.250
Dunn	4	1	1	0	0	1		.250
Suzuki	4	1	1	1	0	3		.250
Scutaro	4	0	0	0	0	1		.000
Barton	4	0	1	1	0	0		.250
Davis	4	0	0	0	0	1		.000
Rosales	3	1	1	1	0	2		.333
TEAM TOTALS	34	3	8	3	1	10
BATTING: 2B: Crisp HR: Suzuki, Rosales
BASERUNNING: SB: Dunn

Los Angeles Angels
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Aybar	5	1	2	0	0	1		.400
Kendrick	4	1	1	1	0	0		.250
Rivera	4	0	3	1	0	0		.750
Morales	4	0	1	0	0	2		.250
Hunter	4	2	2	0	0	1		.500
Izturis	4	0	1	0	0	2		.250
Abreu	4	1	1	0	0	0		.250
Napoli	4	2	2	3	0	1		.500
Wood	4	0	1	2	0	0		.250
TEAM TOTALS	37	7	14	7	0	7
BATTING: 2B: Kendrick, Hunter, Napoli, Wood HR: Napoli

Oakland Athletics
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Anderson	5.1	10	5	5	0	5		8.43
Meloan	1.2	1	1	1	0	1		5.40
Ramirez	1.0	3	1	0	0	1		0.00
TEAM TOTALS	8.0	14	7	6	0	7

Los Angeles Angels
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Weaver	8.0	6	2	2	1	9		2.25
Shields	1.0	2	1	1	0	1		9.00
TEAM TOTALS	9.0	8	3	3	1	10

Aneheim, CA- Opening day has arrived. For the Oakland Athletics it couldn't have gone by any quicker. Jered Weaver was mainly responsible for that. Weaver went 8 innings and allowed just 2 runs, both solo shots. Said newly acquired Adam Dunn "his delivery had us fooled all game long." Dave Magaden takes his first lost in his managerial debut. Napoli had a huge debut with a homer and 4RBI's including a double.
In other news no pictures could be provided as the Oakland Express paper was on strike. They are to return to work today.

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Napoli strikes again.

The second game of this series was a good. With Cahill on the mound the A's had a chance, especially in the the 7th inning when they scored all of their 3 runs. But in the the bottom of the 7th Wuertz came in to relief Cahill, starter Jake Fox (pictured below) lets a ball go right by him from a lack of effort and keep the inning going. That prompted coach Magadan to take him right out of the game. A couple of batters later Mike Napoli smashes a 3run shot.

Adam Dunn hits his first homer as an Oakland Athletic. Pinero didn't factor into the decision but went 6 strong with 2ER and striking out 4.

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Braden Dominant on Mound

Dallas Braden wasn't perfect on this day, but striking out eleven,and giving up 7 scattered hits along with 2 ERs was dominant enough. Angel hitters were dazzled. Everyone in the Angels line-up struck out atleast once. 2 of their 3 runs came on Travis Woods 2 run shot against Braden. Scutaro sent what looked like a long flyout, a homerun just over Tori Hunters glove.


Adam Dunn who has played the DH role in the first 3 games went yard again. Also, newcomer Jason Kubel is struggling at the plate, going hitless in his last 2.

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A's Don't Get Calls or Win

"I felt like I could hit anything up there"
Those were Juan Rivera's exact words after he
belted 3 HRs to seal the Angels series win over the A's.


The Angels pounded 15 hits and 13 runs over the A's.
The A's felt that Clyde Washington had something to do
with the final score. Nonetheless Josh Outman was not
having a good day. Being squeezed at the strikezone, a ground
rule double by Izturis frusterated Outman, and set up a HR by
Rivera. The ground rule double was clearly foul (see below)
and it was that kind of day for the A's. Rivera finished 3-5 with 7RBIs.


On the mound for the Angels was Scot Kazmir, and he scored the
complete game by allowing 5 hits walking one and
striking out 7. Jason Kubel finally got a hit and an RBI for the A's.
Said manager Dave Magadan, " we are going to have games like this
we just need to bounce back as a team and play better, its not
the end of the world but we need to make something happen quick."

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A's Get Win Despite
Circus Ninth

Seattle, WA- With one out in the bottom of the ninth and
Andrew Bailey in for the save,SS Marc Scutaro throws
away a routine groundball to first base. Next batter Josh Bard
grounds out to Aaron Miles who turns for the double play but
throws it over Scutaros head. That sets up runners on first
and second. Ichiro is up to bat and hits a sharp grounder to first
and Patterson takes it himself for the second out. Chone Figgins
next batter and he grounds out to first base only to have Patterson bobble the ball. That might of been the worst defense played in
the ninth inning I have ever seen. But the good closer that Bailey is,
he gets Milton Bradley to swing at a slider in the dirt to end the
drama.


Adam Dunn was leading off the ninth when he hit a deep fly ball
to the warning track and everyone in Safeco Field held their breath.
Franklin Guttierez and Ichiro both giving chase to the ball, they
must of not heard each other and collided against each other
and the wall, both fell to the ground. Ichiro reacted a little faster
and quickly threw the ball to the cut-off. Dunn ended up at third
and later scored on a sac fly from Scutaro. Both Ichiro and Guttierez
stayed in the game and are day to day.


With not much offense in this one, Gio Gonzalez pitched 7 2/3,
giving up5 hits, 2R, 2ER, 2BB and 3K. Opposing pitcher Ian Snell
posted a similar line pitching 6inn, 5H, 2R, 2ER, 1BB, and 2K (ND).
Jason Kubel got the off from manager Dave Magadan.

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Kubel Gets Anemic
Offense Going

Seattle, WA- Jason Kubel thanked his manager, Dave Magadan,
for giving him the day off on Friday. After the game Magadan
thanked Jason Kubel. Kubel finished 3-5 with 2HRs and 3RBIs.
It looked like Kubel has been pressing at the plate, so Magadan
moved him to sixth in the lineup. And it seemed to help. Dunn,
Scutaro and Kubel (4-5-6) went a combined 8-14. The A's hit
the ball well today against an aging Livan Hernandez. Hernandez
didn't have his best stuff who gave up nine hits, 6 runs, 4 of them
earned.

Brett Anderson looked sharp after a bounce back start. He struck
out nine in seven innings of work. The Seattle offense is showing
no life in the middle of the order.

The A's go for the sweep tomorrow, but will go up against King Felix.

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Hey guys, sorry for these oversized screenshots. I'm kind of new at doing this. On my phone atleast the pics look normal but I know on my laptop they look huge lol, didn't mean for them to come out like that. Hope some are following. I'm trying to get this franchise moving so I can finish in time for the next Show. Between work, kids and school I'm trying to make time for this awesome game so bare with me. Peace