Baseball: Yusei Kikuchi hurls 1-hit gem as Angels see off Athletics

Yusei Kikuchi threw 7-1/3 innings of one-hit ball in his longest start this year as the Los Angeles Angels held on to beat the Athletics 7-4 on Monday.Kikuchi (2-5) had six 1-2-3 innings in a 104-pitch gem to earn the win at Angel Stadium, allowing his only hit to Max Muncy with one out in the fifth inning when he also issued his solitary walk."I managed to use all my pitches extremely well, and getting to pitch into the eighth was huge," Kikuchi said.Zach Neto, Nolan Schanuel and Mike Trout hit back-to-back RBI singles in the third and Jo Adell's solo home run in the fourth handed the Ange…READ FULL ARTICLE