{"id":808426,"date":"2026-09-18T20:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/808426\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T20:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:04:32","slug":"athletics-look-to-break-3-game-road-skid-play-the-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/808426\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics look to break 3-game road skid, play the Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Athletics<\/a> (61-92, fourth in the AL West) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (78-75, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Mason Barnett<\/a> (0-0); Guardians: Daniel Espino (0-0, 2.92 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 21 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -199, Athletics +162; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics travel to the Cleveland Guardians looking to break a three-game road skid.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 78-75 overall and 38-40 at home. The Guardians are 35-17 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

The Athletics are 61-92 overall and 32-46 in road games. The Athletics have the fourth-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .402.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the fourth time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chase DeLauter<\/a> has 28 doubles, three triples, 14 home runs and 62 RBIs for the Guardians. Travis Bazzana<\/a> is 13 for 35 with two doubles, five home runs and 13 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jeff McNeil<\/a> has a .268 batting average to lead the Athletics, and has 22 doubles and eight home runs. Max Muncy<\/a> is 10 for 28 with two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 6-4, .245 batting average, 4.30 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

Athletics: 4-6, .191 batting average, 5.28 ERA, outscored by 28 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Colin Holderman<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist), Chase DeLauter: day-to-day (hamstring), Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg)<\/p>\n

Athletics: Gage Jump: 15-Day IL (left shoulder), J.T. Ginn: 15-Day IL (elbow), Luis Severino<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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

___<\/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 (61-92, fourth in the AL West) vs. Cleveland Guardians (78-75, second in the AL Central) Cleveland; Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[537,5,22912,135,51,2565,12858,75686,538,1950,1332,6616,1327,19,890,43042,1532,4,12569],"class_list":["post-808426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-chase-delauter","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-colin-holderman","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-jeff-mcneil","tag-justin-sterner","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-mason-barnett","tag-max-muncy","tag-mlb","tag-travis-bazzana"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117293840004228344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808426","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=808426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808426\/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=808426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}