{"id":119851,"date":"2025-06-21T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T07:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/119851\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T07:18:19","slug":"game-78-athletics-vs-guardians-game-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/119851\/","title":{"rendered":"Game #78, Athletics vs Guardians Game Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a stadium could talk, Sutter Health Park would be hoarse, but still screaming Kurtz, Kurtz, Kurtz after last night\u2019s thrilling 10th inning walk-off homer by Nick Kurtz\u2026his second walk-off in four days. But there\u2019s a game to play tonight at that same field when the Athletics take on the visiting Cleveland Guardians. Cleveland is 37-36 and currently in second place in the American League Central Division.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Springs will get the start today for Mark Kotsay\u2019s A\u2019s. Springs, a 32-year-old lefty, is currently 5-5 with a 4.52 ERA and sixty-six strikeouts. This is the first time he\u2019ll face the Guardians in an A\u2019s uniform. He\u2019ll go up against 26-year-old righty Tanner Bibee for the Guards. Bibee is 4-6 with a 3.79 ERA with sixty-five strikeouts over his fourteen 2025 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Bibee will face this lineup for the A\u2019s tonight:<\/p>\n<p>Springs will go up against this lineup for Stephen Vogt\u2019s Guardians:<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Game:Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Athletics &#8211; NBCSCA<\/p>\n<p>Listen:<\/p>\n<p>Athletics &#8211; Athletics &#8211; Talk 650 KSTE, A\u2019s Cast, KWNR 95.5 The Bull, KSAC 104.7 FM\/890 AM<\/p>\n<p>More from athleticsnation.com:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If a stadium could talk, Sutter Health Park would be hoarse, but still screaming Kurtz, Kurtz, Kurtz after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,51,3239,4,3226,459,25702,860,8980,777],"class_list":{"0":"post-119851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cleveland-guardians","11":"tag-jeffrey-springs","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-athletics","14":"tag-nick-kurtz","15":"tag-nick-kurtzhis","16":"tag-stephen-vogt","17":"tag-sutter-health-park","18":"tag-tanner-bibee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114720139209100203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}