New York Yankees (34-22, second in the AL East) vs. Athletics (27-29, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n
West Sacramento, California; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Carlos Rodon (0-2, 4.15 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Athletics: Luis Severino (2-5, 4.23 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 64 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Yankees -153, Athletics +127; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics look to end their five-game home skid with a win against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
The Athletics are 27-29 overall and 10-15 in home games. The Athletics have the second-ranked team batting average in the AL at .246.<\/p>\n
New York is 17-13 on the road and 34-22 overall. The Yankees have the second-best team slugging percentage in the majors at .437.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s game is the fourth time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Shea Langeliers leads the Athletics with a .298 batting average, and has 12 doubles, 13 home runs, 20 walks and 28 RBIs. Nick Kurtz is 11 for 37 with eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ben Rice leads the Yankees with a .290 batting average, and has 11 doubles, a triple, 16 home runs, 27 walks and 37 RBIs. Jazz Chisholm is 14 for 38 with two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 4-6, .226 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n
Yankees: 6-4, .267 batting average, 2.70 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Athletics: Denzel Clarke: 60-Day IL (foot), Aaron Civale: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee), Max Muncy: 10-Day IL (hand), Brooks Kriske: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jacob Wilson: 10-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n
Yankees: Jasson Dominguez: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Giancarlo Stanton: 10-Day IL (leg), Max Fried: 15-Day IL (elbow), Angel Chivilli: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Clarke Schmidt: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Yankees (34-22, second in the AL East) vs. Athletics (27-29, second in the AL West) West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[39955,34670,495,3307,18215,33280,49,48,17947,17948,20075,8295,3466,20076,81447,11294,12321,13648,32944,462,4310,3980,4012,35439,82],"class_list":["post-701616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-civale","tag-angel-chivilli","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-brooks-kriske","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-illinois","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-jazz-chisholm","tag-luis-severino","tag-max-fried","tag-max-muncy","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}