The Tampa Bay Rays and Oakland A's will wrap up their four-game series in Oakland on Thursday afternoon. The Rays came into the series with the best record in baseball while the Orioles possessed the worst record in baseball. The pitching matchup on Thursday afternoon will be rookie righty Taj Bradley (4-3, 4.19) of the Rays taking on Paul Blackburn (0-0, 3.60) of the Athletics. The first pitch is scheduled for 3:37 PM EST.
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The Tampa Bay Rays have seemingly played against themselves up to this point in the season. The Rays jumped out to the best start in team history and were comfortably alone atop the AL East through the first two months of the season. Don't look now but after losing the first two games of this series with the suddenly resurgent Athletics, the Rays are just two games ahead of second-place Baltimore in the loss column.
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Tampa Bay will turn to rookie righty Taj Bradley in the fourth and final game in Oakland. Bradly is 4-3 on the season in eight starts this season while averaging under five innings per start. Bradley does possess a K/9 rate of 12.1 to go along with a WHIP of 1.27. He's yet to earn a quality start this season and has an ERA of 4.19. Bradley has been excellent on the road this season with a 2-1 record in four starts and an ERA of 1.71. Bradley's K/9 rate is 11.6 on the road and his WHIP lowers to 1.05.
Key Injuries: 2B Brandon Lowe and CL Pete Fairbanks are out.
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