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By: Ana Kieu

The Oakland A’s will wrap up its regular season against the Los Angeles Angels with a three-game series at Angel Stadium. The A’s hope to finish the season on a positive note, while the Angels are just playing for pride right now.

Game 1 will feature A’s right-handed pitcher Mike Fiers (12-7, 3.31 ERA) against the Angels’ right-handed pitcher Jaime Barria (10-9, 3.54 ERA).

As of Thursday, neither team has announced their starters for Games 2 or 3.

The A’s Twitter appeared to be laid-back coming into Friday night’s road game in Anaheim, Calif.

A’s reliever Liam Hendricks, a Perth, Australia native, chooses to remember the millions of pets in need of homes everyday. Hendricks has been showing his support for pet adoption and you can show your support as well. You can get started by tweeting #RememberMeThursday and checking out RememberMeThursday.org for more information on the joy of pet adoption.

Also, there’s still time for you to put in your bid for this week’s Stomper in the Town statues at athletics.com/auctions if you haven’t already done so. There are four types of statues: Stuck on the A’s — McNally’s Irish Pub, Stompedelic — Plank, Hip Hop Stomp — 4496 Broadway and Oakland A’stec Stomper — Everett and Jones.

In my opinion, the A’s deserve to be called the CinderellA’s. But, of course, they’re an American League West team, so they’re not going to get as much love like American League East teams like, say, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.

The A’s were a rebuilding team and weren’t supposed to be good even though they had a high-caliber starting rotation. Of course, the A’s suffered a plethora of injuries, but their DH–Khris Davis–has made his American League MVP case. Whether or not Davis earns the AL MVP title, Davis had himself a heck of a season with 47 home runs as of Thursday. Davis has already joined Mark McGwire and Jimmie Foxx as the only players with three total 40-home run seasons in the A’s 118-year history on September 1st.