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Miami Marlins<\/a> (46-42, third in the NL East) vs. Athletics<\/a> (41-46, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

West Sacramento, California; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Tyler Phillips<\/a> (1-3, 3.02 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 50 strikeouts); Athletics: Jack Perkins<\/a> (2-3, 6.00 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 62 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Athletics -131, Marlins +108; over\/under is 10 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics host the Miami Marlins on Friday to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n

The Athletics have a 41-46 record overall and a 19-25 record at home. The Athletics have gone 31-10 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Miami is 46-42 overall and 18-25 on the road. The Marlins have the sixth-ranked team batting average in the NL at .250.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the first time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nick Kurtz<\/a> has a .279 batting average to lead the Athletics, and has 15 doubles, a triple and 19 home runs. Tyler Soderstrom<\/a> is 9 for 33 with a home run and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Otto Lopez<\/a> has a .336 batting average to lead the Marlins, and has 23 doubles, five triples and seven home runs. Javier Sanoja<\/a> is 16 for 38 with a home run and 10 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 3-7, .235 batting average, 5.32 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

Marlins: 6-4, .285 batting average, 4.03 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

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

Marlins: Anthony Bender<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shin), Janson Junk: 15-Day IL (shin), Josh Ekness: 60-Day IL (calf), Andrew Nardi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronny Henriquez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Miami Marlins (46-42, third in the NL East) vs. Athletics (41-46, fourth in the AL West) West Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[24644,8217,1114,537,5,14905,75686,26058,1950,4289,1327,19,890,58,4,3226,459,1753,7729,12436,544],"class_list":["post-741909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-anthony-bender","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-perkins","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-javier-sanoja","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-otto-lopez","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-tyler-phillips","tag-tyler-soderstrom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116855207564237177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741909","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=741909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}