I think the Yankees are in for a disappointing West Coast road trip

Thank you kindly!

[/Quote]Pirates +135 and +130. I love the Pirates today. I think these guys are about to take a step closer to winning their first home series since the All-Star break.[/Quote]I'm on the Bucs also  -1 RL  @ +183.    It's all up to Smokin Joe Musgrove.   Can he dodge that one blowup inning again, or will he succumb to his dreaded 5-6 hit inning, or just as bad give up 2 or 3 moonshots in an inning.   And have mercy if they get to face him a third time through.  That said, he is significantly better at night, and I think he's going to go on one of his "rolls" he sometimes does.    GL to Pitt backers  

I put my trust in Smokin' Joe on Sunday, August 4th and he did that multiple moon shot thing in the top of the 1st against the Mets en route to his worst start of the season. But then I trusted him again last Friday and he.....TOTALLY redeemed himself (Dumb And Dumber style) against the Cubs.

khris davis batting 7th.

pretty amazing oaklands DH is a non factor yet the team still wins despite him.

Mr. Bator I presume

Davies finally gets a a Hit (HR) too

UPDATED at 8:35pm PT      

Here's what the A's have done in the first 5 innings of Mike Fiers' home starts since May 7th.

May 7th vs. the Reds, the A's led 1-0 (and Fiers went on to complete a no-hitter)

May 25th vs. the Mariners, the A's led 5-3

May 31st vs. the Astros, the A's led 2-0

June 17th vs. the Orioles, the A's led 3-2 (one of those O's runs was unearned)

June 22nd vs. the Rays, the A's led 2-1

July 3rd vs. the Twins, the A's led 3-0

July 12th vs. the White Sox, the A's led 3-0

July 28th vs. the Rangers, the A's led 1-0

August 3rd vs. the Cardinals, the A's led 5-0

August 15th vs. the Astros, the A's led 4-3

August 21st vs. the Yankees, the A's led 41

9 earned runs allowed by Fiers in 55 innings. You can count on Mike Fiers.

Quote Originally Posted by midnightprowl:

A's 1st ml win... Need FG to win $6.6K based loaded in top of 6th im scared 

If the top of the 6th scared you, the top of the 7th might've required a diaper change.  Fear not, midnightprowl.  The shorthanded Yankees are running out of outs.

Always a pleasure reading your posts, Mr. B. 

This place was turning into a ghost town. Always nice to see an OG resurface! 

Congratulations, midnightprowl!          

Of course I will.  It'll be our last chance to bet on the feisty A's at home at such a low price.

That's interesting, because I don't think the New York Yankees can avoid the sweep.

CLASSIC 

Mr Bator thank you sir  if As are dogs I’ll bet +1.5 and ya there playing great ball and your calling yanks are gonna have bad west coast trip after tomrw now dodgers on Friday I believe RYU pitching I see 

In the first two games of this series, Yankees starters Domingo German and J.A. Happ gave up 5 earned runs each, which was enough scoring by the A's to stick each of them with a richly-deserved "L" on their respective records, German falling to 16-3 and Happ dropping to 10-8. What scary hurler do the Yankees have up next?  It's the highly respected Masahiro Tanaka, who happens to be enduring a poor season for the Yankees for the second time in his 6 years wearing the pinstripes. Come to think of it, I wouldn't blame him if he secretly wished he could wear the pinstripes all the time.  That's because his ERA this season is eerily similar to his uneven 2017 season. Check this out...

In 2017, Tanaka's ERA was 4.74, a very good 3.22 at Yankee Stadium but a quite awful 6.48 on the road.  This season, his ERA is 4.56, again a very good 3.26 at home, and again 6.48 on the road.  When I said his 2017 and 2019 ERAs were 'eerily similar", I wasn't overstating it, was I?

In fairness to Tanaka, however, I would like to take the liberty of throwing out one of his bad 2019 road starts.  That's because it took place in that weird stadium in London that played like a pinball machine.  On that Saturday back on June 29th, neither Tanaka nor the Red Sox' Rick Porcello made it out of the 1st inning. Porcello got lit up in the top of the 1st for 6 runs while recording only one out.  When it happened to him, few in the crowd blinked, because although British sports fans are unfamiliar with baseball, it's universally understood around the world that Rick Porcello sucks. Porcello hurriedly left the field as fans showered him with derisive calls such as "You really cock'd that one up, ya bloody wank-ah!" But, when the same thing happened to Tanaka in the bottom of the 1st inning, the most common word rippling through the crowd was "Blimey!" The locals understood baseball to be a game of nine "innings", but this first inning ludicrously took an entire hour to complete!  Fans were growing more convinced that Americans were one sandwich short of a picnic.

Anyways, if you throw out Tanaka's two-thirds of an inning at London Stadium, his road ERA this season is 5.62, almost the same as Domingo German's which was 5.58 entering Tuesday night's game (and is now 5.82). Of Tanaka's 10 road starts in American stadiums, only four resulted in quality starts, and three of those took place in April and May.  I excused his dog's dinner in London, but his July 25th start in Fenway Park can't be overlooked.  Tanaka was left in the game for 87 pitches as he absorbed a 12-hit and 12-run pounding. Bottom line is that since the beginning of June, Tanaka's 5 road starts have resulted in a 7.76 ERA for him, but only two losses for the Yankees.  The good news for Yankees fans is that Tanaka has just put together back-to-back quality starts for the first time in two months, shutting down the Blue Jays 1-0 in Toronto and doing just enough to defat the Indians last weekend 3-2.

Tonight will be Masahiro Tanaka's first start against the A's in over two years, when he lasted just 4 innings while allowing 8 hits and 5 earned runs in a 5-2 loss in Oakland.