MLB Gas Can Alert For Saturday, August 6

Target these offenses to put up big numbers

By Matthew Horner – Aug 5, 2022, 11:35pm

The Giants started off the year where they left off last season, as one of the leagues better teams that was a force to be reckoned with. Now past the midway point of the season, it seems that San Francisco has fallen back into the category of “average” teams. They are sitting just under .500 right now and not really going anywhere fast. In fact, they tried to trade away some of their better players a t the trade deadline, but were for the most part unsuccessful in their efforts. The good news is that, fresh off getting swept by the Dodgers, they get the Athletics. They are one of the worst teams in baseball, so San Francisco should be able to take advantage of them and their starting pitcher.

Adam Oller gets the ball for this Saturday contest. In his last start, he gave up four earned runs on seven hits and no walks while striking out six over 6.1 innings of work to take the loss in a 4-1 defeat against the White Sox. The silver lining for Oller is that this outing was his best start of the year and his ERA has now dropped slightly to 7.68. He'll need to build on that momentum to get even a respectable ERA, but at home this season, Oller owns a 9.00 ERA.
  
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