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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (64-69, third in the AL Central) vs. Athletics<\/a> (52-81, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

West Sacramento, California; Wednesday, 9:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Connor Prielipp<\/a> (3-7, 5.57 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 101 strikeouts); Athletics: J.T. Ginn (8-8, 3.60 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 118 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Twins -142, Athletics +119; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics and Minnesota Twins meet on Wednesday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

The Athletics have a 52-81 record overall and a 24-41 record in home games. The Athletics have a 32-67 record in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a 64-69 record overall and a 29-38 record on the road. The Twins have a 29-56 record in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams play Wednesday for the sixth time this season. The Twins are ahead 3-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n

Byron Buxton<\/a> leads the Twins with 25 home runs while slugging .511. Kaelen Culpepper<\/a> is 15 for 37 with two doubles, a home run and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 4-6, .263 batting average, 5.39 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Twins: 4-6, .251 batting average, 5.34 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Athletics: Jacob Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Nick Kurtz: 60-Day IL (thumb), Tyler Soderstrom: 60-Day IL (hip), Josh Kuroda-Grauer: 10-Day IL (testicle), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Sterner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Jose Suarez<\/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), Brent Rooker: 60-Day IL (knee), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Twins: Byron Buxton: day-to-day (back), Joe Ryan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (glute), Austin Martin: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Mike Paredes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (oblique), Cole Sands<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mick Abel<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Banda<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Pablo Lopez<\/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":"Minnesota Twins (64-69, third in the AL Central) vs. Athletics (52-81, fourth in the AL West) West Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[8934,537,5,2223,9707,6969,3916,14905,75686,1950,1455,157,6616,9228,1327,19,890,5158,24121,60,4,3226,1997,3442],"class_list":["post-788740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-anthony-banda","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cole-sands","tag-connor-prielipp","tag-david-festa","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-joe-ryan","tag-jose-suarez","tag-justin-sterner","tag-kaelen-culpepper","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-mick-abel","tag-mike-paredes","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-shea-langeliers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117160972349509279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788740","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=788740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}