Houston Astros (6-3) vs. Athletics (2-6)<\/p>\n
West Sacramento, California; Sunday, 4:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Lance McCullers (1-0, 1.29 ERA, 0.71 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Athletics: Jacob Lopez (0-1, 6.75 ERA, 2.75 WHIP, zero strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Astros -124, Athletics +104; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics and Houston Astros play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n The Athletics went 76-86 overall and 36-45 in home games last season. The Athletics scored 4.5 runs per game while giving up 5.0 in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n Houston went 87-75 overall and 41-40 in road games a season ago. The Astros averaged 8.5 hits per game last season while batting a collective .250.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Athletics: Gunnar Hoglund: 15-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n Astros: Hayden Wesneski: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brandon Walter: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nate Pearson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Zach Dezenzo: 10-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bennett Sousa: 15-Day IL (oblique), Enyel De Los Santos: 15-Day IL (knee), Josh Hader: 15-Day IL (biceps)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros (6-3) vs. Athletics (2-6) West Sacramento, California; Sunday, 4:05 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Lance McCullers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,537,5,3616,13576,2178,13379,11192,1432,139,54,3211,5163,632,1109,5175,4,256,878,766,185,1567,5099,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-664418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-bennett-sousa","12":"tag-brandon-walter","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-data-skrive","15":"tag-enyel-de-los-santos","16":"tag-hayden-wesneski","17":"tag-houston","18":"tag-houston-astros","19":"tag-houstonastros","20":"tag-illinois","21":"tag-jacob-lopez","22":"tag-josh-hader","23":"tag-lance-mccullers","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-mlb-baseball","26":"tag-nate-pearson","27":"tag-ronel-blanco","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-texas","30":"tag-tx-state-wire","31":"tag-zach-dezenzo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116351758332724489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664418","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=664418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}