Boston Red Sox (56-51, third in the AL East) vs. Athletics (45-63, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n
West Sacramento, California; Thursday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Sonny Gray (12-2, 2.78 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 93 strikeouts); Athletics: Mason Barnett (1-1, 4.74 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 23 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Red Sox -170, Athletics +139; over\/under is 10 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox lead 2-1 in a four-game series against the Athletics.<\/p>\n
The Athletics are 45-63 overall and 21-32 in home games. The Athletics have a 28-52 record in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n
Boston is 31-22 on the road and 56-51 overall. The Red Sox have gone 37-20 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the fourth time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nick Kurtz has 21 home runs, 77 walks and 69 RBIs while hitting .260 for the Athletics. Jeff McNeil is 13 for 29 with two doubles, a home run and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Willson Contreras leads the Red Sox with 22 home runs while slugging .539. Andruw Monasterio is 13 for 30 with six doubles, a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 3-7, .249 batting average, 4.80 ERA, outscored by 17 runs<\/p>\n
Red Sox: 7-3, .241 batting average, 3.30 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Athletics: Nick Kurtz: day-to-day (hand), Jeffrey Springs: day-to-day (hip), Zack Gelof: 10-Day IL (knee), Shea Langeliers: 10-Day IL (knee), Luis Severino: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Kuroda-Grauer: 10-Day IL (testicle), J.T. Ginn: 15-Day IL (finger), Mark Leiter Jr.: 15-Day IL (hip), Justin Sterner: 15-Day IL (knee), Brent Rooker: 60-Day IL (knee), Denzel Clarke: 60-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n
Red Sox: Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Marcelo Mayer: 10-Day IL (forearm), Roman Anthony: 60-Day IL (wrist), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Isiah Kiner-Falefa: 10-Day IL (forearm), Triston Casas: 60-Day IL (knee), Zack Kelly: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Oviedo: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox (56-51, third in the AL East) vs. Athletics (45-63, fourth in the AL West) West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[129349,112374,129348,2724,10482,363,99],"class_list":["post-793325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-around-maine","tag-app-in-the-community","tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","tag-associated-press","tag-maine","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}