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Athletics<\/a> (38-40, second in the AL West) vs. San Francisco Giants<\/a> (31-46, fourth in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Francisco; Tuesday, 9:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Aaron Civale<\/a> (5-3, 4.91 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 41 strikeouts); Giants: Robbie Ray<\/a> (5-6, 4.07 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 74 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Giants -125, Athletics +103; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants begin a three-game series at home against the Athletics on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

San Francisco is 31-46 overall and 14-20 at home. The Giants have the second-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .257.<\/p>\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

The teams square off Tuesday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Luis Arraez<\/a> has 16 doubles, six triples and three home runs for the Giants. Casey Schmitt<\/a> is 15 for 41 with three doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nick Kurtz<\/a> has 15 doubles, a triple, 19 home runs and 61 RBIs for the Athletics. Zack Gelof<\/a> is 14 for 39 with three doubles, three home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Giants: 4-6, .254 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

Athletics: 5-5, .270 batting average, 7.52 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Giants: Heliot Ramos: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Tyler Mahle<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 10-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Keaton Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Jason Foley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Athletics: Luis Severino: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mark Leiter<\/a> Jr.: 15-Day IL (hip), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (knee), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletics (38-40, second in the AL West) vs. San Francisco Giants (31-46, fourth in the NL West) San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[2132,537,5,9406,14905,75686,162,365,540,44621,40915,85,19,890,4,459,12859,1822,70335,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,91,3291],"class_list":["post-733316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-aaron-civale","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-casey-schmitt","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-giants","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jason-foley","tag-joel-peguero","tag-keaton-winn","tag-luis-arraez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-mlb","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-robbie-ray","tag-rowan-wick","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants","tag-tyler-mahle","tag-zack-gelof"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116798537278383773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733316","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=733316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}