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Athletics<\/a> (45-69, fourth in the AL West) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (55-58, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Thursday, 12:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Mason Barnett<\/a> (1-1, 4.85 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 29 strikeouts); Reds: Andrew Abbott<\/a> (5-7, 3.91 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 95 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Reds -158, Athletics +140; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics aim to end a seven-game slide with a win against the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has a 55-58 record overall and a 28-31 record at home. The Reds have a 36-8 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The Athletics have a 45-69 record overall and a 24-33 record in road games. The Athletics rank sixth in the AL with 135 total home runs, averaging 1.2 per game.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Thursday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Elly De La Cruz<\/a> has 18 doubles, five triples, 18 home runs and 52 RBIs while hitting .277 for the Reds. Dane Myers<\/a> is 10 for 37 with a double over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 7-3, .235 batting average, 2.97 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

Athletics: 1-9, .230 batting average, 6.34 ERA, outscored by 34 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Hunter Greene: 15-Day IL (elbow), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm), Tony Santillan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Blake Dunn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Steer: 10-Day IL (wrist)<\/p>\n

Athletics: Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Nick Kurtz: 10-Day IL (thumb), Jeffrey Springs<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Zack Gelof: 10-Day IL (knee), Justin Sterner<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mark Leiter<\/a> Jr.: 60-Day IL (hip), Shea Langeliers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Luis Severino<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Kuroda-Grauer: 10-Day IL (testicle), Brent Rooker: 60-Day IL (knee), 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 (45-69, fourth in the AL West) vs. Cincinnati Reds (55-58, fifth in the NL Central) Cincinnati; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[2001,537,5,7026,12054,50,1951,14905,1177,75686,3239,6616,1327,19,890,43042,4,3226,3442,12475],"class_list":["post-771372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-andrew-abbott","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-blake-dunn","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-dane-myers","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-event_preview","tag-jeffrey-springs","tag-justin-sterner","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-mason-barnett","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-tony-santillan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117047608175250973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771372","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=771372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}