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The Angels Seriously Can’t Figure Out The A’s, Need Answers Fast

By Keith Rivas

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In the last five seasons, the Angels have gone 52-53 against the Oakland A’s, one of the worst teams in baseball.

If the Angels expect to come anywhere close to not disappointing Southern California like they did last season after getting completely destroyed by the Kansas City Royals in the playoffs they better figure out how to beat the weak teams.

And they better do it fast.

Oakland seems to be the team that has figured out the Angels the most, and for some reason that trend continues despite the clubs going in what appears to be opposite directions from here on out.

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Anaheim can somehow stick with teams better than them, but lowly Oakland can come in like a wrecking ball and just crash the party.

Talk about throwing shade at a rival.

In the last half-decade the Angels have had 105 chances to beat the A’s, with Sunday’s 8-1 fallout becoming loss number 53.

What’s that mean?

They’re now below .500 against the A’s. That’s sad.

Other teams that the Angels will most certainly have to face in the playoffs this season and beyond include the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, and Houston Astros.

These are clubs the Angels have barely been able to breathe with, being that LA’s records against are 19-21, 48-53, and 24-21 respectively.

I only saw one good stat on that whole section — the fact that it’s not the playoffs yet.

The biggest factor in these games for the Angels has been their hitting.

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    • Barely getting any runs against the A’s is not going to give your team any confidence whatsoever when you have to go into a place like Houston or Baltimore where runs are expected and produced at a legitimate level.

    In other words, Anaheim has to stop playing hokey.

    Last year’s collapse was evidence that home field is not as big of a deal for the success of the team as many once thought or would think it should be.

    Instead, it was the collective attitude in the dugout and all of the things we didn’t get to see that factored in to the events on the diamond.

    If there ever were a team to demonstrate what going from 100 to 0 in historic fashion, it’d have to be the Angels.

    The fact that they couldn’t even get one game off a team like Kansas City in the ALDS is pretty sad.

    Bottom Line: If you can’t figure out Oakland, you’re gonna have a bad time

    In all honesty, I see a lot of comparisons between the Clippers and the Angels simply because they have the ability to wow us in the regular season for the right reasons and then leave us speechless when it counts.

    While it’s not quite that time just yet to start playing the purge game of managerial heights, anything short of an ALCS or a World Series berth could put Mike Scioscia in hot water.

    Let’s hope that doesn’t have to happen.

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