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GAME NOTES Oakland Athletics Baseball Company 510-638-4900 | athletics.com | @athletics OAKLAND ATHLETICS (50-40) VS. TEXAS RANGERS (35-53) SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2021 — GLOBE LIFE FIELD — 3:05 CDT RHP JAMES KAPRIELIAN (4-3, 2.84) VS. RHP MIKE FOLTYNEWICZ (2-8, 5.17) NBCSCA — A’S CAST ON IHEART RADIO — A’S RADIO NETWORK (960 AM, 103.7 FM HD2, 1140 AM) ABOUT THE A’S: The A’s dropped game one of this three-game set last night, are tied with the White Sox and Rockies for the most complete games (3)... 3-2...won their 50th game of the season Thursday, marking just the fifth the complete games are the most by an A’s team since 2015 (5)...the A’s are time in the last 29 years the A’s have won their 50th game in 89 games or the first team in the majors with four pitchers with 18 or more starts...have fewer (2002, 03, 14, 15)...lost two of three at Houston to start the road trip used just seven starting pitchers, which is second fewest to the Red Sox (6)... and are now 0-5-1 over the last six series...it is the first time the A’s have gone are one of two teams with five pitchers with six or more wins (White Sox). winless over six consecutive series in a single season since they went 0-5-1 BULLPEN: The A’s bullpen is 1-2 with a save, a blown save, a 1.66 ERA (4 er in over a six-series stretch from June 3-22, 2016...have lost six of the last eight 21.2 ip) and .178 (13-for-73) opponents batting average over the last seven games and 13 of the last 19...are 50-40 (.556) overall, which is the fifth best games but is 8-8 with 10 saves, 11 blown saves and a 4.53 ERA (73 er in 145.0 record in the American League...are in second place in the AL West for the ip) over the last 50 contests...has converted 22-of-34 (64.7%) save opportu- 19th consecutive day and trail first place Houston by 4½ games...that is one nities overall...has five losses over the last 17 games after taking just four game short of the season high of 5½ (April 8 and July 7)...have spent 58 days losses over the first 71 contests. alone in first place, three days tied for first, 20 days in second, one day tied for second, three days in third, two days in fourth, three days tied for fourth DEFENSIVE DOINGS: The A’s have committed five errors in the last six games and 10 days in fifth...held at least a share of first for 61 of 62 days from April after making just two errors over the previous 19 contests...now have 41 er- 20 to June 20. rors for the season, which is second fewest in the American League...ranks tied for fourth in fewest double plays (67)...A’s pitchers have five pickoffs, THE ALL-STAR BREAK: The A’s will go into the All-Star Break with a winning re- which is tied for third most. cord for the third consecutive season as they are 50-40 entering the final two games before the break...were 51-41 in 2019 (2nd place, seven games be- ALL-STAR: Matt Olson was named to his first American League All-Star team hind Houston) and 55-42 in 2018 (3rd place, -8)...A’s pitchers have 741 strike- on Sunday as the A’s lone representative...it is the first time the A’s have one outs, which is already an Athletics Pre All-Star Break record (728 in 2014)... All-Star since 2017 (Alonso)...had two in both 2018 (Lowrie, Treinen) and have a 3.85 ERA and have not had an ERA under 4.00 since 2015 (3.37)...the 2019 (Chapman, Hendriks)...Olson will also be participating in the Home offense is batting .233 and has went into the break with a mark under .233 Run Derby...this is the second consecutive Derby with an Athletic (Chapman, twice in Oakland history (.225 in 2012, .231 in 1982). 2019) and Olson is the ninth Athletic to participate in the Derby...Chris Bas- sitt was named to the All-Star team today...is his first career All-Star appear- ONE-RUN GAMES AND OTHER CLOSE CALLS: Sox of the A’s last seven games ance. have been decided by one run and Oakland is 14-14 (.500) in one-run games... have the most one-run games in the American League and are third in wins... THIS AND THAT: The A’s are 22-13 (.629) in games in which the opponent are 21-21 (.500) in games decided by two runs or fewer compared to 29-19 starts a left-handed pitcher compared to 28-27 (.509) when they start a (.604) in games decided by three runs or more...are 3-3 in extra innings...are right-hander...are 30-7 (.811) when out-homering the opposition, 7-23 10-6 in games decided in the last at bat...have seven walk-off wins, which is (.233) when they are out-homered...have used 87 different lineups over the tied with the Mariners for the most in the AL and tied for second most in the first 89 games. majors (Rockies, 9)...now have 90 walk-off wins in the Bob Melvin era, which THE INJURED LIST: The A’s have used the injured list 18 times this year...used are the most in the majors over that span. it just eight times last year, which was second fewest in the majors to Cleve- AGAINST THE WEST: The A’s are 17-20 (.459) against American League West land (4), and 18 times in 2019, which tied for second fewest...currently have competition compared to 33-20 (.623) against all other teams...lost two of five players on the IL (Canha, Fiers, Moreland, Pinder, Rosenthal)...began the three at Houston to start the week and begin a stretch of 12 of 15 games year with two players on the IL but have had at least four all but one day against divisional foes...after this three-game series with Texas, the A’s open since the fifth game of the season (three on June 16). post-break play by hosting Cleveland, and then have two games with the A’s vs. RANGERS: The A’s are 3-5 against the Rangers...are 1-2 in Oakland and Angels and four with Seattle. 2-3 in Texas...today is the A’s ninth game against the Rangers in their last HOME AND AWAY: The A’s are 1-3 on this six-game road trip to Houston (1- 17 games...won the season series last year, 7-3...it was their fourth consecu- 2) and Texas (0-1)...this trip starts a stretch where the A’s are scheduled to tive season series victory over the Rangers, which is just the second time the play 26 of their 36 games on the road...went 4-6 on the last road trip to New A’s have won four consecutive season series against Texas (2002-05)...went York-AL (1-2), Texas (2-2) and San Francisco (1-2) but are 23-18 (.561) on the 4-3 in Arlington last year and 3-0 in Oakland...have won 17 of the last 24 road overall, which is the third best road record in the American League... games and are 32-15 over the last 47 contests...have won eight of the last 11 the 41 road games are tied for the fewest in the majors...went 2-4 on the games and 26 of the last 34 in Oakland...are 47-28 (.627) against the Rangers last homestand against Texas (1-2) and Boston (1-2) and are 27-22 (.551) over the last five years...are 388-381 all-time against the Texas Rangers...that at home...begin post-break play with a five-game homestand against Cleve- breaks down to 204-178 in Oakland and 184-203 in Texas...are 6-6 at Globe land (three-games) and Los Angeles-AL (two games). Life Field...have an all-time record of 485-465 against the Rangers/Senators franchise. ON THE BASES: The A’s have 12 stolen bases in their last 19 games after steal- ing just two bases over the previous 36 contests...have been successful in TODAY’S TIDBITS each of their last 14 stolen base attempts dating back to May 30 and are Matt Chapman has reached base safely in each of his last 24 games and is 36-for-44 (81.8%) for the season, which is the third best percentage in the batting .305 (29-for-95) with 19 runs, six home runs and 18 RBI over that American League. span...also has nine walks, a hit by pitch and sacrifice fly for a .368 on-base OFFENSE: The A’s are batting .204 (90-for-442) with 43 runs scored (3.31 per percentage...has a career-high 48-game errorless streak...Matt Olson ranks game) over the last 13 games...A’s leadoff hitters are 8-for-49 (.163) with fifth in the AL in OPS (.928), sixth in slugging (.556), tied for sixth in home a run, six walks and four hit by pitches over that stretch, which coincides runs (21), tied for ninth in RBI (57), and tied for seventh in extra base hits with the date Mark Canha went on the injured list (June 25)...the A’s lead (41) ...Sergio Romo has not allowed a run in 16 of his last 18 games for a the American League in hit by pitches (49), rank second in sacrifice flies (29), 1.08 ERA (16.2 ip, 8 h, 2 r, 2 er, 1 bb, 16 so, 1 hr)...Lou Trivino has a 0.38 ERA third in fewest grounded into double plays (53), tied for fourth in triples (13) (1 er in 23.0 ip) and .188 (15-for-80) opponents batting average over his and fifth in walks (312)...A’s pinch hitters lead the AL in hits (19), RBI (14), last 24 games dating back to May 8...has converted 8-of-9 save opportuni- sacrifice flies (2) and plate appearances (87) and are tied for second in extra ties over that span and stranded all seven of his inherited runners base hits (4).