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Oakland Athletics Post Game Notes OAKLAND ATHLETICS POST GAME NOTES Oakland Athletics Baseball Company • 510-638-4900 • athletics.com • A’s PR @AsMediaAlerts OAKLAND ATHLETICS (34-33) VS. HOUSTON ASTROS (43-25) TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2018— OAKLAND COLISEUM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Houston 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 6 12 1 Oakland 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 7 0 Win: Lance McCullers Jr. (8-3) Loss: Daniel Mengden (6-6) Save: Ken Giles (11) OAKLAND NOTES HOUSTON NOTES • Daniel Mengden is now 0-6 against AL West competi- • Lance McCullers Jr. set a new career high in wins, with tion, and has an ERA of 8.16 in six starts against AL West eight...Three of those wins have come against Oakland. teams...Mengden also fell to 0-5 in seven career starts The Astros have now won six straight against the vs. the Astros. • Athletics...the six-game streak is the second-longest • In seven games against Houston in 2018, the Athletics winning streak against the A's in Houston history (10 have hit into double plays in six of them. games, 7/20/16 to 4/28/17). • Oakland has now lost nine of their last ten games facing • Houston won their sixth straight game, tying their lon- AL West competition. gest winning streak of the season. • Matt Chapman hit three doubles for the first time in his • George Springer has now hit safely in all seven games career, which ties the Oakland single-game record...the against the A's this season, and has an average of .517 last time was on 9/27/17, when Matt Joyce hit three vs. facing Oakland in 2018. Seattle. • Alex Bregman's extended his streak of reaching base • Jed Lowrie is now 0 for his last 17, and Khris Davis is 0 safely to 24 games, which is the second-longest in the for his last 13. majors (Shin-Soo Choo, 28)...Bregman also extended his hitting streak to ten games, his longest since a 14-game Marcus Semien played in his 461st game as a short- • streak from 7/29/17 to 8/12/17. stop with the A's, tying Alfredo Griffin for seventh-most games at shortstop in Oakland history...with five more, • With an error in the eighth inning, Carlos Correa Semien will tie Cliff Pennington for sixth. snapped a 70-game errorless streak, which had been the second-longest in the MLB among shortstops (Adeiny Only two of the fifteen runnersDanny Coulombe has • Hechavarria, 87 games). inherited have scored (13.3%), a mark that is tied for fourth in the American League. • Ken Giles is now 11-for-11 in save opportunities this season, and 16 for his last 16 dating back to 9/8/17 at Since beating Houston 8-1 on the road on 4/27, the As- • Oakland. tros have outscored Oakland 49-12 (6 games). HOME RUNS HOME RUNS Player Inning Count RBI Location Pitcher Player Inning Count RBI Location Pitcher Carlos Correa (11) 2 0-0 1 LF Mengden Evan Gattis (11) 2 0-0 3 LF Mengden Time of Game ........................................................... 2:57 Homestand ..................................................................3-2 April .............................................................................13-12 First Pitch ................................................................. 7:07 pm Last 5..............................................................................3-2 May .............................................................................15-14 Temperature ................................................. 67 degrees Last 10 ...........................................................................5-5 June. ......................................................................... .........5-5 Today’s Attendance. ............................................11,742 Home/Road ................................................18-17/16-16 Attendance Total .............................................. 493,067 Day/Night .........................................................14-11/20-22 Average (34 dates) ...............................................14,501 vs. RHS/LHS .....................................................26-19/8-14 Streak..................................................................................L1 March ..............................................................................1-2.
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