Oakland Athletics (51-90) vs. Texas Rangers (60-79)
The Oakland Athletics take on the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night with the first pitch at 8:05 PM ET. These two AL West rivals start a two-game set at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. It’s Game 18 of their regular-season series, and the Rangers have won ten of their previous 17 encounters with the A’s in 2022.
Texas opens as a -151 moneyline favorite. Oakland sits at +139 odds, while the totals are listed at 8.5 runs.
The Oakland Athletics trounced the Chicago White Sox 10-3 this past Sunday. They stopped a five-game slide and avoided a sweep in a four-game home set against the Chi Sox. After surrendering a thumping 46 runs in their previous five outings, the Athletics’ pitching staff finally found its grove, while their offense accounted for 14 hits and a couple of home runs.
Oakland is 2-8 in September and holds a hideous 6.80 ERA, 1.64 WHIP, and .308 opposing batting average in 88.2 innings of work this month. On the other side of the ball, the A’s have scored 42 runs in that ten-game stretch while slashing an underwhelming .230/.289/.361 with nine home runs and 15 extra-base hits across 335 at-bats.
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saying bye, bye, bye pic.twitter.com/3Tt58IBGBk— Oakland A's (@Athletics) September 11, 2022
Ken Waldichuk will get the starting call Tuesday and aim for his first major-league victory. The 24-year-old rookie left-hander is 0-1 with a 3.60 ERA and 1.20 WHIP in two starts (10 innings pitched) in 2022. Last Wednesday, Waldichuk was charged for a loss in a 7-3 defeat to the Atlanta Braves, surrendering three earned runs on three hits while striking out two across 5.1 frames of work.
Waldichuk tossed 95 innings between Double-A and Triple-A in 2022, posting a strong 2.84 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, and 137/36 K/BB ratio. Ken has four offerings but heavily leans on his four-seam fastball (60.5% of usage).