Gray’s return to mound short but sweet for A’s

ANAHEIM — A’s pitcher Sonny Gray was admittedly nervous when he took the mound Wednesday evening in Anaheim. He also couldn’t help but peek at the stadium radar reading after throwing his first pitch.

“I definitely took a glance back to make sure that everything was pretty normal,” Gray said, “and it was.”

So was the rest of his outing, which lasted just one inning as planned. This, in itself, was significant, even if the 18-pitch performance hardly stood out on a busy scorecard that summed up the A’s 8-6 loss to the Angels.

Gray, who spent nearly two months rehabbing a forearm injury, was making his first start since Aug. 6 to cap an injury-marred season gone awry. The clean first inning, in which he worked around a leadoff base hit and struck out one, put his ERA at 5.69 for the season — this, after he finished third in American …

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