The Oakland A’s Mark Canha (20) seen here after scoring on a double by Matt Olson against the Los Angeles Angels on Sat May 22, 2021. Canha has a career high of being hit by pitches 64 times most recently by Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani on Fri May 28, 2021 at the Oakland Coliseum (AP News photo)

On the Oakland A’s podcast with Barbara Mason:

#1 The Oakland A’s just wrapped up their series against the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday but all the talk in this series focused on pitcher Shohei Ohtani who pitch into the seventh innings against the A’s on Friday night at the Oakland Coliseum in game 2 and when went up and inside on A’s batter Mark Canha which nearly started a bench clearing brawl. Disclaimer no punches were thrown.

#2 In Canha’s next at bat he was hit by Ohtani and Ohtani went down on the mound to show Canha no hard feelings and nothing intentional. Ohtani was not tossed out of the game and Canha peacefully took his base. The hit by was Canha’s 64th career.

#3 Kind of a unusual pomp and circumstance on Thursday night when Ohtani was suppose to pitch but arrived late to the ball park saying traffic was so bad on the Bay Bridge that he took BART which he said was late. After checking with BART there were no delays going to the Coliseum from the San Francisco on Thursday afternoon.

#4 The A’s after taking the first two games of the four game series faced Angels pitcher Alex Cobb in game 3 on Saturday. Cobb pitched seven innings of three hit shutout ball against the A’s before being lifted and the A’s who couldn’t Cobb out lost it 4-0. The A’s hit only .209 during the four game series.

#5 The A’s open a three game series in Seattle tonight at T Mobile Field a 1:10 pm Memorial Day first pitch. The last time the A’s and Mariners met back on May 24-26 the Mariners took the series two out of three. The A’s won the third game 6-3 on May 26th A’s pitcher James Kaprielian started and went seven innings and gave up two hits.

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