Not much to write home about here after yet another series dropped to begin the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n
Luis Severino took the bump. His second start of the season, following an outing on opening day where he pitched\u2026fine. Across five frames against the Blue Jays he gave up 2 ER while striking out three. Everything would go up today (good and bad). His 7K\u2019s seem a little less impressive when you hold them next to the 4 ER and 5 BB also offered up by the big righty.<\/p>\n
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Drake Baldwin\u2019s single to left field would net Atlanta their first set of runs. Ozzie Albies and Dominic Smith scored on the base hit, making it 2-0 Braves.<\/p>\n
That would be the score going into the 4th inning when none other than Shea Langeliers got ahold of one. That\u2019s five home runs! Five dingers in the first six games.<\/p>\n
He\u2019d walk away from today\u2019s action with the lone A\u2019s hit against Atlanta\u2019s ace Chris Sale, continuing to be the only real bright spot in an otherwise dopey start to the season.<\/p>\n
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Just a half a frame later, Drake Baldwin would get ahold of another one. This time a double off of Elvis Alvarado which scored Dominic Smith and Mauricio Dubon. Both runs would be charged to Severino, who exited the game on 91 pitches in less than four innings pitched.<\/p>\n
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Matt Olson\u2019s single to right brought in another.<\/p>\n
5-1 Braves going into the 5th inning and it would stay that way through the final out.<\/p>\n
Another tough day at the plate for A\u2019s hitters. Tough day all around actually. The only real bright spot came in the form of Denzel Clarke\u2019s home run robbery of Drake Baldwin in the 7th. His bat might be non-existent but hey, maybe he\u2019ll bring home a gold glove soon.<\/p>\n
The A\u2019s will be given an off day tomorrow and then it\u2019s off to West Sacramento, where they\u2019ll play host to the Houston Astros in their first series of the season at Sutter Health Park.<\/p>\n
Maybe the day off will do them good. They can collect themselves, go grab a drink, see a flick. It\u2019s been an unforgiving past six days for the green and gold and any break in that action couldn\u2019t hurt in the slightest.<\/p>\n
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If you plan on attending any of the games this weekend, feel free to let me know! I\u2019ll be at all three and ready to talk ish with anyone. Let\u2019s have a little fun this weekend and hopefully the energy will help propel the A\u2019s to their first series win of 2026!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not much to write home about here after yet another series dropped to begin the 2026 campaign. Luis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[537,191,46,4166,5,192,919,14905,18701,5931,7634,6920,54,1327,541,3617,4,1132,3442],"class_list":{"0":"post-657727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-chris-sale","15":"tag-denzel-clarke","16":"tag-dominic-smith","17":"tag-drake-baldwin","18":"tag-elvis-alvarado","19":"tag-fifth-inning","20":"tag-houston-astros","21":"tag-luis-severino","22":"tag-matt-olson","23":"tag-mauricio-dubon","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-ozzie-albies","26":"tag-shea-langeliers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116332254010635155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}