ANAHEIM — Yusei Kikuchi reached a point at which he felt he needed more than he could get from the Angels’ pitching coaches or catchers.

He talked to the team’s hitters and hitting coaches.

“Obviously, it’s been a little while since I hit, and I was never really a good hitter myself, so it’s good to get information from hitters on what their thought process is when they’re in the box,” Kikuchi said through his interpreter. “I want to get their opinion as to how they would approach me potentially.”

Kikuchi, who starts again on Wednesday, reached this inflection point after a frustrating outing on Friday against the A’s. He needed 94 pitches to get through four innings , which was mostly because the A’s fouled off about twice as many pitches as the major league average.

“It’s annoying,

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