Oakland Athletics (10-38) vs. Seattle Mariners (22-24)
The Major League Baseball betting action goes on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, with a full 15-game card, so we are breaking down the AL West showdown from T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington, to get you the best Athletics vs. Mariners betting pick and odds.
It’s the second tilt of a four-game series in Seattle, and Monday’s opener has been excluded from this preview. The Mariners are surefire -235 moneyline favorites for Tuesday’s clash, while the totals sit at 8.5 runs.
The Oakland Athletics fell to 10-38 on the season following Sunday’s 2-0 defeat at the Houston Astros. They mustered just four hits against Framber Valdez, who hurled his second career shutout. It was Oakland’s fourth loss in a row, and the A’s have dropped 12 of their previous 14 games overall.
The Athletics own the fourth-lowest scoring offense in baseball, racking up 3.67 runs per game while hitting .227/.307/.374 (.248/.320/.407 league average). They are slashing just .211/.292/.316 with four home runs and six doubles over the last seven days and 171 at-bats. On the other side of the ball, the A’s have the highest-scoring defense in the MLB, yielding a staggering 7.17 runs per contest.
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Luis Medina will be on the bump Tuesday in Seattle. The 24-year-old rookie right-hander is 0-2 with a bloated 6.88 ERA and a 1.23 WHIP in three starts (17.0 innings pitched) in 2023. After yielding eight runs (seven earned) in his major-league debut, Medina has surrendered three earned runs in each of his previous two showings. Last Wednesday, he fanned six across six innings of work in a no-decision against the Arizona Diamondbacks (Oakland eventually lost 5-3).