{"id":731800,"date":"2026-06-12T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731800\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:12:10","slug":"athletics-play-the-rockies-in-first-of-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731800\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics play the Rockies in first of 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies<\/a> (26-43, fifth in the NL West) vs. Athletics<\/a> (33-35, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Las Vegas; Friday, 10:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rockies: TBD; Athletics: Gage Jump (2-1, 2.45 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 13 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Athletics -191, Rockies +159; over\/under is 13 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics host the Colorado Rockies to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

The Athletics have a 33-35 record overall and a 13-18 record at home. The Athletics rank eighth in MLB<\/a> play with 87 total home runs, averaging 1.3 per game.<\/p>\n

Colorado has gone 12-23 on the road and 26-43 overall. The Rockies have the sixth-ranked team slugging percentage in the NL at .396.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Tyler Soderstrom<\/a> has 17 doubles, two triples and 11 home runs for the Athletics. Nick Kurtz<\/a> is 10 for 35 with a double and five home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Hunter Goodman<\/a> leads the Rockies with 29 extra base hits (11 doubles and 18 home runs). Brett Sullivan<\/a> is 7 for 16 with three home runs and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 5-5, .248 batting average, 6.32 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

Rockies: 4-6, .270 batting average, 7.90 ERA, outscored by 30 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Athletics: Brent Rooker: day-to-day (knee), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Luis Severino<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Aaron Civale<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee), Jacob Wilson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Rockies: Victor Vodnik<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jake McCarthy<\/a>: day-to-day (illness), Brenton Doyle<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Mickey Moniak<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Jimmy Herget<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Tyler Freeman<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Tanner Gordon: 15-Day IL (hip), Jordan Beck<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Kris Bryant: 60-Day IL (back), Welinton Herrera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jose Quintana: 60-Day IL (elbow), McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Chase Dollander: 15-Day IL (elbow), Pierson Ohl: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 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":"Colorado Rockies (26-43, fifth in the NL West) vs. Athletics (33-35, third in the AL West) Las Vegas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[44661,5654,64,63,39351,277830,5259,15922,354166,68230,22905,214670,18670,48723,161138,5882,277832,48725,591,22899,85,7633,20541,68240,354165],"class_list":["post-731800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-civale","tag-athletics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brenton-doyle","tag-brett-sullivan","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-jimmy-herget","tag-jordan-beck","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mccade-brown","tag-mickey-moniak","tag-mlb","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-sports","tag-tyler-freeman","tag-tyler-soderstrom","tag-victor-vodnik","tag-welinton-herrera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}