Tuesday night's game was important for the A's as a team, butVin Mazzaro had a lot riding on it individually. 

 

 

MEDICAL WATCH: --1B Kendry Morales (broken left leg) went on the 15-day disabled list May 30. 

--SS Erick Aybar was benched and dropped to No. 

For most of the season's first two months, Angels manager Mike Scioscia lamented the way his offense was underperforming and searched for something that would be a catalyst, sparking the offense to start producing the way he was convinced it could. 

 

 

MEDICAL WATCH: --INF Maicer Izturis (right knee) left the June 5 game after six innings because of tightness on the outside of his hamstring and was not in the lineup on June 6-7. 

--IF Maicer Izturis was back in the starting lineup after missing two games because of tightness in the outside of his right hamstring. 

First baseman Kendry Morales has spent 10 days sitting in the hospital, waiting for doctors to decide it is time to perform surgery on his broken ankle. 

 

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As easy as it would be to retroactively beat up on Jeff Suppan,implore Trevor Hoffman to gracefully retire as a means to openanother roster spot and skewer the Milwaukee Brewersfor making such relativelyexpensive mistakes in the first place, at some poin