A’s bullpen can’t halt stumbled in 8-6 loss at Anaheim

The A’s bullpen shot that all to heck, with Daniel Coulombe coming particularly unraveled in the Angels’ four-run seventh inning.

Treinen, who is now filling Oakland’s closer role, struck out C.J. Cron, but pinch-hitter Luis Valbuena poked a single to left to send in two runs and tie the game, and Yunel Escobar hit a slow roller down the third-base line that Chapman had briefly but lost; another run coming in on the infield hit.

Mike Trout followed with an RBI single.

Chapman, who went to El Toro High School in nearby Lake Forest and to Cal State Fullerton, rocketed a three-run homer over the bullpens in left in the second, and he doubled and scored in the sixth.

Handed a lead via Chapman’s blast, Oakland starter Jharel Cotton couldn’t come up with a shutdown inning, but his defense didn’t help much either.

An error by center fielder Jaycob Brugman allowed a runner to advance from first to third, setting up a sacrifice fly by Ben Revere, and then Chapman failed to come up with Escobar’s two-out roller to third — yes, that happened twice Friday — as Andrelton Simmons sprinted home.

Cotton went five-plus innings Friday, allowing seven hits and four runs, three earned.

The Angels proceeded to load the bases — Hendriks gave up a single by Escobar and Ryan Dull walked Mike Trout — but Dull got Albert Pujols to hit a foul pop-up that Chapman caught with a long run down the third-base line.

Cotton got Pujols to hit into an inning-ending double play in the first inning, the 351st of Pujols’ career, passing Cal Ripken for most in major-league history.