The Los Angeles Angels Shohei Ohtani goes deep for his 19th home run of the season against the Oakland A’s in the second inning on Wed Jun 16, 2021 at the Ring Central Oakland Coliseum (AP News photo)

On the A’s podcast with Jerry F:

#1 Jerry, The Oakland A’s (43-27) really did a job on the Los Angeles Angels (33-35) sweeping them at the Coliseum the A’s move up in the AL West standings three games over second place Houston.

#2 In Wednesday afternoon’s game a huge contribution from A’s centerfielder Ramon Laureano who made a great catch and hit a home run in his return off the injured list.

#3 The A’s piled it on in the sixth inning with six runs off Angels reliever Tony Watson who coughed up six earned runs on five hits.

#4 The A’s couldn’t contain the Angels star designated hitter Shohei Ohtani who slugged his 19th home run of the season on Wednesday and is second in the American League in home runs behind the Toronto Blue Jays Vladimir Guerrero who has 22.

#5 The A’s will open a three game series against the New York Yankees on Friday night at Yankees Stadium in the Bronx the A’s will be start James Kaprielian (3-1 ERA 2.51) the Yankees starter James Tallion (1-4 ERA 5.74).

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