The Baltimore Orioles lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Athletics.<\/p>\n
The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n
Baltimore Orioles (66-69, fourth in the AL East) vs. Athletics (53-82, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n
Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8.<\/p>\n
The Baltimore Orioles play the Athletics leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n
The Athletics have a 53-82 record overall and a 25-42 record in home games. Athletics hitters have a collective .401 slugging percentage to rank seventh in the AL.<\/p>\n
Baltimore has gone 32-35 on the road and 66-69 overall. The Orioles have gone 30-12 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the fifth time these teams meet this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Zack Gelof has 13 doubles, a triple, 14 home runs and 38 RBIs for the Athletics. Max Muncy is 9 for 34 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Pete Alonso leads the Orioles with 32 home runs while slugging .508. Christian Encarnacion-Strand is 12 for 38 with three doubles, two home runs and 10 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 4-6, .258 batting average, 4.75 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n
Orioles: 5-5, .219 batting average, 3.66 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Orioles: Shane Baz (4-14, 4.04 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 135 strikeouts); Athletics: Jack Perkins (3-9, 6.68 ERA, 1.48 WHIP, 104 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
First pitch in West Sacramento, California; Saturday, 10:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baltimore Orioles lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Athletics. The season series is tied 2-2.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[1464,537,143,47,2538,5,2600,14264,2335,4,1045,125,6476,670,1479,2350,9118,3237,95469,13827],"class_list":["post-791688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-athletic","tag-athletics","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-era","tag-home-game","tag-home-run","tag-mlb","tag-oakland","tag-orioles","tag-rbi","tag-saturday","tag-season","tag-strikeout","tag-three-game-series","tag-west-sacramento","tag-wgal","tag-whip"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117180295022083464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791688","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=791688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}