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Seattle Mariners<\/a> (69-78, third in the AL West) vs. Athletics<\/a> (59-88, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: George Kirby<\/a> (9-11, 4.18 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 133 strikeouts); Athletics: Jeffrey Springs (4-13, 6.02 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 104 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mariners -172, Athletics +140; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics host the Seattle Mariners on Friday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

The Athletics are 59-88 overall and 27-45 in home games. The Athletics have the seventh-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .403.<\/p>\n

Seattle has a 69-78 record overall and a 29-43 record on the road. The Mariners have a 42-13 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the 11th time these teams meet this season. The season series is tied 5-5.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n

Randy Arozarena<\/a> has 29 doubles, a triple and 22 home runs for the Mariners. Cal Raleigh<\/a> is 12 for 38 with five doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 6-4, .235 batting average, 4.24 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

Mariners: 5-5, .258 batting average, 4.99 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Athletics: J.T. Ginn: 15-Day IL (elbow), Luis Severino<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Shea Langeliers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Josh Kuroda-Grauer: 60-Day IL (testicle), Jacob Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nick Kurtz: 60-Day IL (thumb), Tyler Soderstrom: 60-Day IL (hip), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Sterner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Mark Leiter<\/a> Jr.: 60-Day IL (hip), Brent Rooker: 60-Day IL (knee), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Mariners: Brendan Donovan<\/a>: 7-Day IL (head), Matt Brash<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Will Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (thumb), Nick Davila: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brennen Davis<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Colt Emerson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Emerson Hancock<\/a>: 15-Day IL (groin), Luke Raley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cole Wilcox: 15-Day IL (oblique), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/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":"Seattle Mariners (69-78, third in the AL West) vs. Athletics (59-88, 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":[2392],"tags":[537,5,4492,29893,3297,22897,764,75686,465,1950,6616,1327,19,620,890,2053,4,1456,619,65,3235,3442,16021],"class_list":["post-802192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-brennen-davis","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-colt-emerson","tag-emerson-hancock","tag-event_preview","tag-george-kirby","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-justin-sterner","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mariners","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-matt-brash","tag-mlb","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-will-wilson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117251710855403666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802192","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=802192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802192\/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=802192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}