Pittsburgh Pirates\u00a0(36-36, fourth in the NL Central) vs.\u00a0Athletics\u00a0(35-36, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
West Sacramento, California; Monday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates:\u00a0Jared Jones\u00a0(1-0, 4.73 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 14 strikeouts); Athletics:\u00a0J.T. Ginn\u00a0(4-3, 3.15 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 65 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Athletics -128, Pirates +108; over\/under is 10 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates will attempt to end a three-game road slide when they visit\u00a0the Athletics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Athletics have a 35-36 record overall and a 15-19 record at home. Athletics hitters are batting a collective .250, which ranks second in the AL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pittsburgh has a 16-17 record in road games and a 36-36 record overall. The Pirates are 16-28 in games when they have given up at least one home run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS:\u00a0Nick Kurtz\u00a0has 13 doubles, a triple, 16 home runs and 52 RBIs for the Athletics.\u00a0Tyler Soderstrom\u00a0is 10 for 32 with two doubles, five home runs and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brandon Lowe\u00a0leads the Pirates with 34 extra base hits (16 doubles, a triple and 17 home runs).\u00a0Oneil Cruz\u00a0is 8 for 24 with three home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 5-5, .272 batting average, 7.58 ERA, outscored by 19 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pirates: 3-7, .228 batting average, 5.48 ERA, outscored by 19 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Athletics:\u00a0Luis Severino: 15-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (knee),\u00a0Aaron Civale: 15-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Denzel Clarke: 60-Day IL (foot),\u00a0Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pirates: Wilber Dotel: 15-Day IL (the pittsburgh pirates placed rhp wilber dotel on the 15-day injured list.), Konnor Griffin: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Oneil Cruz: 10-Day IL (hand),\u00a0Chris Devenski: 60-Day IL (illness),\u00a0Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (foot infection)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Pittsburgh Pirates\u00a0(36-36, fourth in the NL Central) vs.\u00a0Athletics\u00a0(35-36, second in the AL West) West Sacramento, California; Monday, 9:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates:\u00a0Jared Jones\u00a0(1-0, 4.73 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 14 strikeouts); Athletics:\u00a0J.T. Ginn\u00a0(4-3, 3.15 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 65 strikeouts) LINE: Athletics -128, Pirates +108; over\/under is 10 1\/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates will attempt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416296,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416295\/revisions\/416296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}