Oakland A’s starter James Kaprielian will get the start against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Friday night. Here Kaprielian is seen throwing against the Kansas City Royals on Jun 12, 2021 at the Oakland Coliseum (AP News photo)

On the A’s podcast with Lewis Rubman for Jeremiah Salmonson:

#1 Lewis the Oakland A’s (43-27) are coming off a sweep against the Los Angeles Angels (33-35) in three games at the Oakland Coliseum the A’s bullpen did a good job holding off the Angels in the series.

#2 You can never keep a good man down the Angels Shohei Ohtani who didn’t pitch in the series against the A’s got a rip on the A’s for his 19th home run on Wednesday. Ohtani is now second in the American League in home runs right behind the Toronto Blue Jays Vladimir Guerrero who has 21 homers.

#3 In a number of wins for the A’s this season they’ve had clustered runs for big rallies Wednesday was no different when the A’s scored six runs in the sixth inning for insurance runs as they were down 4-2 before the rally.

#4 A’s starter Cole Irvin who gave up four earned runs in 5.2 innings pitched had to be relieved as the A’s got the six inning rally and the bullpen held the Angels off.

#5 The A’s open up a three game series against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium tonight for the A’s James Kaprielian (3-1 ERA 2.51) and for the Yankees Jameson Tallion (1-4 ERA 5.74) Lewis set this series up for us.

Lewis was filling in for Jeremiah for the A’s podcast listen to Jeremiah each Friday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com