A’s lose two of three in Anaheim despite some impressive work from Irvin and center fielder Cristian Pache.
He got a huge assist from Pache, who leaped over the fence to rob the Angels’ Kurt Suzuki of a would-be home run in the sixth inning with a back-handed grab. Pache, who also chased down a drive in left-center that appeared headed for extra bases later in the game, fooled his manager on his rob job against Suzuki.
Instead of showing the umpires that he did grab the ball, Pache just nonchalantly jogged to the Oakland dugout. “I wasn’t sure if he had the ball and no one was checking so at that point I figured, they called it an out, so if he comes in here with an empty glove, it’s still an out,” Kotsay said. “Pretty spectacular play. Nothing shocks me with what he does out there defensively.” Pache’s issues this season have come at the plate, where he’s batting just .154. However, his bloop single in the eighth inning snapped a 1-for-23 skid and allowed Kevin Smith to score the A’s only run. “He’s a fun player to watch defensively,” Irvin said of the 23-year-old Pache. “His bat’s gonna get going here pretty soon and that’s gonna be even more fun to watch.” The A’s received good news on Montas and Laureano, who both were forced to leave Saturday night’s game with hand injuries. Kotsay said X-rays on both were negative and both are considered day-to-day. Montas, who had to leave Saturday night’s game after he was struck on his right hand by Luis Rengifo’s second-inning liner, told the San Francisco Chronicle he expects to be able to make his next start, Thursday night at the Coliseum against Texas. Laureano didn’t play Sunday but was available off the bench after his X-rays came back clean. Laureano was hit in the right hand by a 93 mph sinker from the Angels’ Michael Lorenzen on Saturday. Meanwhile, the A’s are probably happy not having to deal with Sandoval for a while. He has beaten Oakland in back-to-back outings, throwing 13 2/3 innings of eight-hit, two-run ball. Sandoval struck out seven Sunday and allowed just four hits in his 7 1/3 innings. Sandoval lowered his ERA to 1.79 during his longest start of the season. He still hasn’t given up a home run in 2022. “That’s starting to be a typical performance for him,” Angels manager Joe Maddon said. “For my money, when he has fastball command, he should normally be pitching in the seventh, eighth, ninth inning. The way his stuff is, they don’t get good swings at it. Don’t get good looks at it.” Just 12 days after Angels rookie Reid Detmers threw a no-hitter at the Big A, Sandoval took a perfect game into the fourth, a no-hitter into the fifth and a two-hitter into the eighth.Notes A’s rookie left-hander Zach Logue will make his fourth career start tonight against Seattle. … Infielder Nick Allen was sent back to Triple-A Las Vegas before the game to make room for Irvin on the 26-man roster.
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