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Athletics<\/a> (38-42, third in the AL West) vs. San Francisco Giants<\/a> (33-46, fourth in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Francisco; Thursday, 3:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Jeffrey Springs (3-7, 5.55 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 72 strikeouts); Giants: Landen Roupp<\/a> (5-7, 4.15 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 89 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Athletics -118, Giants -103; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics, on a four-game losing streak, play the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a 16-20 record in home games and a 33-46 record overall. The Giants have the second-ranked team batting average in the NL at .257.<\/p>\n

The Athletics have a 38-42 record overall and a 20-19 record on the road. Athletics hitters have a collective .327 on-base percentage, the seventh-best percentage in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the sixth time these teams meet this season. The Giants hold a 4-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> has 19 doubles, two triples, five home runs and 27 RBIs while hitting .333 for the Giants. Casey Schmitt<\/a> is 16 for 39 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 13 for 36 with two doubles, three home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Giants: 5-5, .240 batting average, 3.00 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

Athletics: 3-7, .236 batting average, 7.26 ERA, outscored by 20 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Giants: Luis Arraez<\/a>: day-to-day (foot), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Heliot Ramos<\/a>: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 10-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Keaton Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), 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: Jacob Wilson<\/a>: day-to-day (shoulder), Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (knee), Zack Gelof: day-to-day (hand), Luis Severino<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mark Leiter<\/a> Jr.: 15-Day IL (hip), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (38-42, third in the AL West) vs. San Francisco Giants (33-46, 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":[537,5,9406,14905,75686,162,365,851,1950,540,44621,375,40915,2005,85,1327,19,890,4,459,12859,70335,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,3291],"class_list":["post-735059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-casey-schmitt","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-giants","tag-harrison-bader","tag-heliot-ramos","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-jason-foley","tag-joel-peguero","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-keaton-winn","tag-landen-roupp","tag-luis-arraez","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-mlb","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-rowan-wick","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants","tag-zack-gelof"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116809861959546246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735059","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=735059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735059\/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=735059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}