Texas Rangers (22-23, third in the AL West) vs. Oakland Athletics (19-30, fifth in the AL West) Oakland, California; Sunday, 4:07 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Dane Dunning (1-3, 4.32 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 51 strikeouts); Athletics: James Kaprielian (0-2, 5.48 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 19 strikeouts) LINE: Rangers -118, Athletics -101; over/under is 7 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Oakland Athletics aim to stop their four-game home slide with a victory against the Texas Rangers.
Making it worse for the announced crowd of 6,502 is the game was broken wide open in the fifth inning when favorite son Marcus Semien unloaded a grand slam against Jake Lemoine for a 9-1 lead. It was Semien’s first home run of the season after signing a seven-year, $175 million contract with the Rangers in the offseason one year after hitting 45 home runs for the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Oakland A’s made a change in their bullpen Saturday morning. The team announced that they called up reliever Austin Pruitt from Triple-A. To make room for him on both the 40-man roster and the active 26-man roster, fellow reliever Justin Grimm was designated for assignment. The A’s signed both pitchers over the offseason as minor league free agents.
No | Player | Pos |
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68 | P | |
58 | P | |
35 | P | |
45 | P | |
19 | P | |
61 | P | |
66 | P | |
56 | P | |
32 | P | |
57 | P | |
71 | P | |
67 | P | |
60 | P | |
47 | P | |
29 | P | |
33 | P | |
62 | P |
No | Player | Pos |
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23 | C | |
12 | C | |
21 | C |
No | Player | Pos |
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17 | SS | |
15 | 1B | |
8 | 2B | |
26 | 3B | |
10 | 2B | |
1 | SS |
No | Player | Pos |
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13 | CF | |
11 | CF | |
5 | LF | |
22 | CF | |
20 | CF | |
25 | RF |