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Game Thread: Braves @ Athletics – Tue, May 30 @ 09:40 PM EDT

  • May 31, 2023


#[Braves](/r/Braves) [@](http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2017_ipad/684/atloak_684.jpg) [Athletics](/r/OaklandAthletics) – Tue, May 30

###Game Status: In Progress – Score: 1-0 Braves
Top of the 4th, 1 out, bases empty, 0-0 count with JP Sears pitching and Sean Murphy batting. Marcell Ozuna is on deck, and Kevin Pillar is in the hole.

###Links & Info
* Current conditions at Oakland Coliseum: 60°F – Partly Cloudy – Wind 12 mph, Out To RF
* TV: **Braves**: Bally Sports South, **Athletics**: NBCSCA
* Radio: **Braves**: 680 AM/93.7 FM The Fan, **Athletics**: KIQI 1010 (es), Bloomberg 960 AM/103.7 HD2, A’s Cast
* [MLB Gameday](https://www.mlb.com/gameday/717958/)
* [Game Graphs](http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2023-05-30&team=Athletics&dh=0&season=2023)
* [Savant Gamefeed](https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?gamePk=717958)

||Braves Batters|AB|R|H|RBI|BB|K|LOB|AVG|OBP|SLG|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|1|[Acuña Jr.](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=660670) – RF|1|0|0|0|1|0|1|.326|.409|.558|
|2|[Olson](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=621566) – 1B|2|0|1|0|0|1|1|.240|.363|.549|
|3|[Riley, A](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=663586) – 3B|2|0|0|0|0|0|1|.269|.336|.462|
|4|[Albies](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=645277) – 2B|2|0|0|0|0|0|0|.252|.296|.457|
|5|[Murphy, S](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=669221) – C|1|0|0|0|0|1|0|.289|.402|.560|
|6|[Ozuna](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=542303) – DH|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|.222|.304|.479|
|7|[Pillar](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=607680) – LF|1|1|1|1|0|0|0|.256|.287|.512|
|8|[Arcia, Or](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=606115) – SS|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|.302|.357|.466|
|9|[Harris II, M](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=671739) – CF|1|0|1|0|0|0|0|.183|.265|.279|
||Totals|12|1|3|1|1|2|3||||

|Braves|
|:–|
|BATTING: **HR**: Pillar (6, 3rd inning off Sears, 0 on, 0 out). **TB**: Harris II, M; Olson; Pillar 4. **RBI**: Pillar (14). **GIDP**: Riley, A. **Team LOB**: 1. |

||Athletics Batters|AB|R|H|RBI|BB|K|LOB|AVG|OBP|SLG|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|1|[Ruiz, E](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=665923) – CF|2|0|0|0|0|0|0|.271|.335|.353|
|2|[Noda](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=676116) – 1B|2|0|0|0|0|1|0|.237|.395|.460|
|3|[Brown, S](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=664913) – RF|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|.193|.246|.386|
|4|[Díaz, A](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=649557) – 2B|1|0|0|0|0|0|1|.197|.256|.254|
|5|[Laureano](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=657656) – DH|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|.208|.263|.389|
|6|[Bleday](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=668709) – LF|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|.206|.296|.397|
|7|[Bride](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=681146) – 3B|1|0|0|0|0|1|1|.500|.500|.500|
|8|[Langeliers](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=669127) – C|1|0|0|0|0|1|1|.208|.283|.381|
|9|[Allen, N](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=669397) – SS|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|.198|.250|.244|
||Totals|9|0|0|0|2|3|3||||

|Athletics|
|:–|
|BATTING: **Team LOB**: 2. |
|FIELDING: **Pickoffs**: Sears (Acuña Jr. at 1st base). **DP**: (Bride-Díaz, A-Noda). |

|Braves Pitchers|IP|H|R|ER|BB|K|HR|P-S|ERA|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|[Elder](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=693821)|3.0|0|0|0|2|3|0|47-30|1.91|
|Totals|3.0|0|0|0|2|3|0|||

|Athletics Pitchers|IP|H|R|ER|BB|K|HR|P-S|ERA|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|[Sears](http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=676664)|3.2|3|1|1|1|2|1|60-37|4.55|
|Totals|3.2|3|1|1|1|2|1|||

|Inning|Scoring Play|Score|
|:–|:–|:–|
|Top 3|Kevin Pillar homers (6) on a fly ball to left field.|1-0 ATL|

|Team|Highlight|
|:–|:–|
|[ATL](/r/Braves)|[Bullpen availability for Atlanta, May 30 vs Athletics (00:00:07)](https://darkroom-clips.mlb.com/bd84a72d-a5d7-4147-b3e2-9feaa8ea9b7c.mp4)|
|[OAK](/r/OaklandAthletics)|[Bullpen availability for Oakland, May 30 vs Braves (00:00:07)](https://darkroom-clips.mlb.com/61a7e5fb-e9c6-4e71-ba33-38524cf5b216.mp4)|
|[OAK](/r/OaklandAthletics)|[Fielding alignment for Oakland, May 30 vs Braves (00:00:11)](https://darkroom-clips.mlb.com/7f294b18-c49a-4c2a-84e1-2aeaaf2510c8.mp4)|
|[ATL](/r/Braves)|[Fielding alignment for Atlanta, May 30 vs Athletics (00:00:11)](https://darkroom-clips.mlb.com/84fc9b1e-f1be-4b05-8dbd-3ac6dafcf316.mp4)|
|[OAK](/r/OaklandAthletics)|[Starting lineups for Braves at Athletics – May 30, 2023 (00:00:09)](https://darkroom-clips.mlb.com/fd96fb4d-2856-4710-9217-35ce608689c4.mp4)|
|[ATL](/r/Braves)|[Measuring the stats on Kevin Pillar’s home run (00:00:16)](https://darkroom-clips.mlb.com/caf7a857-f449-433d-adb2-9c4903b132e3.mp4)|
|[ATL](/r/Braves)|[Kevin Pillar’s solo HR (6) (00:00:32)](https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/66360dfc-c73b-47cb-b91b-ee89d927f982.mp4)|

||1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9||R|H|E|LOB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|Braves|0|0|1|| | | | | ||1|3|0|1|
|Athletics|0|0|0|| | | | | ||0|0|0|2|

###Division Scoreboard
SD 9 @ MIA 4 – Final

PHI 0 @ NYM 2 – Final

WSH 0 @ LAD 0 – Bottom 2, 0 Outs

^^^Last ^^^Updated: ^^^05/30/2023 ^^^10:32:37 ^^^PM ^^^EDT

36 comments

  2. Drawing oohs and aahs from those here at the Coliseum, and there are two of them…

  6. Didn’t Soler miss like 2 weeks? How the absolute fuck does he have 17 dingers

  9. Kevin Pillar 2023 splits:

    vs LHP: .313/.306/.542

    vs RHP: .152/.243/.364

    He’s excelling in the right spots Snit has put him in. There is a reason he doesn’t start every day. Especially against righties.

  12. Balk Rules

    1. ⁠⁠You can’t just be up there and just doin’ a balk like that.

    1a. A balk is when you

    1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the

    1c. Let me start over

    1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can’t do that.

    1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can’t be over here and say to the runner, like, “I’m gonna get ya! I’m gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!” and then just be like he didn’t even do that.

    1c-b(1). Like, if you’re about to pitch and then don’t pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?

    1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.

    1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there’s the balk you gotta think about.

    1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn’t been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn’t typecast as that racist lady in American History X.

    1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.

    1c-b(2)-b(ii). “get in mah bellah” — Adam Water, “The Waterboy.” Haha, classic…

    1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of

    2) Do not do a balk please.

    3) Doesn’t matter if you do. We aren’t calling it.

  14. Someone should put the COVID cutouts in the Oakland Coliseum so they can pretend to have fans.

  15. I feel like stolen bases distract Matt since he barely swings when the runner goes.

  16. That chick behind homeplate is absolutely smashing her ice cream. She’s fully focused on it, lol.

    Edit: And now she’s eating her friend’s ice cream too.

  20. I wonder if there’s extra pressure on the A’s ball boys to protect the guys in the bullpen?

  22. It’s legitimately incredible how elder can induce ground balls

    Like that first at bat of the game was great, Ruiz was just pummelling every other pitch into the dirt

  26. Kyle out of nowhere led the NL in wins last year, so why not have Bryce lead the NL in ERA? That would be wild and amazing.

  27. Elder leads all pitchers in the NL in fwar. I’m glad to see our prediction of that in the spring has come true thus far.

  29. The quality I most enjoy about Bryce is that nothing seems to rattle or upset him. Whenever a hit, walk, error, bad luck, or whatever happens, he just regroups and goes at the next guy. It’s really impressive. That’s what makes Max next-level.

  30. Ozzie said he loves playing behind Elder because he attacks the hitter. That’s the same reason I love watching him pitch.

    No messing around.

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