Athletics (38-40, second in the AL West) vs. San Francisco Giants (31-46, fourth in the NL West)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
San Francisco; Tuesday, 9:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Aaron Civale (5-3, 4.91 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 41 strikeouts); Giants: Robbie Ray (5-6, 4.07 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 74 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Giants -125, Athletics +103; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants begin a three-game series at home against the Athletics on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
San Francisco is 31-46 overall and 14-20 at home. The Giants have the second-best team batting average in MLB play at .257.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Athletics are 38-40 overall and 20-17 on the road. The Athletics have the eighth-best team batting average in MLB play at .250.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The teams square off Tuesday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Luis Arraez has 16 doubles, six triples and three home runs for the Giants. Casey Schmitt is 15 for 41 with three doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nick Kurtz has 15 doubles, a triple, 19 home runs and 61 RBI for the Athletics. Zack Gelof is 14 for 39 with three doubles, three home runs and six RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Giants: 4-6, .254 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Athletics: 5-5, .270 batting average, 7.52 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Giants: Heliot Ramos: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Tyler Mahle: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Harrison Bader: 10-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Keaton Winn: 15-Day IL (elbow), Joel Peguero: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Jason Foley: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Randy Rodriguez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Athletics: Luis Severino: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mark Leiter Jr.: 15-Day IL (hip), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (knee), Denzel Clarke: 60-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Athletics (38-40, second in the AL West) vs. San Francisco Giants (31-46, fourth in the NL West) San Francisco; Tuesday, 9:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Aaron Civale (5-3, 4.91 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 41 strikeouts); Giants: Robbie Ray (5-6, 4.07 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 74 strikeouts) LINE: Giants -125, Athletics +103; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs […]<\/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-418119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418119","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=418119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418120,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418119\/revisions\/418120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}