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Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (72-46, first in the AL East) vs. Athletics<\/a> (47-72, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Nick Martinez<\/a> (11-3, 2.65 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 73 strikeouts); Athletics: Mason Barnett<\/a> (1-2, 5.56 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 36 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -163, Athletics +139; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics look to end their six-game home skid with a win over the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n

The Athletics have a 47-72 record overall and a 21-37 record in home games. The Athletics have gone 40-26 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 72-46 overall and 31-28 in road games. The Rays have gone 16-9 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Tuesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero<\/a> leads the Rays with 34 home runs while slugging .549. Chandler Simpson<\/a> is 18 for 41 with a double and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 2-8, .223 batting average, 7.33 ERA, outscored by 39 runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 8-2, .263 batting average, 3.72 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Athletics: Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Sterner<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Nick Kurtz: 10-Day IL (thumb), Jeffrey Springs<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), 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

Rays: Cole Sulser: 15-Day IL (back), Griffin Jax: 15-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ben Williamson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Shane McClanahan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/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":"Tampa Bay Rays (72-46, first in the AL East) vs. Athletics (47-72, fourth in the AL West) West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,4806,457,14905,6925,75686,1180,3239,4682,6616,1327,19,1095,890,43042,4,3226,761,1956,5720,3442,68],"class_list":["post-775744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jeffrey-springs","tag-junior-caminero","tag-justin-sterner","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-mason-barnett","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-nick-martinez","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117076120303319850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775744","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=775744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775744\/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=775744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}