On Monday, August 21 at 9:40 PM ET, Maikel Garcia and the Kansas City Royals will square off against starter Paul Blackburn and the Oakland Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, airing on NSPCA.
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Player Prop Odds for Garcia
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 1.5 | -103 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -132 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -128 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | +100 |
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Stats and Trends for the Oakland Athletics
- Blackburn (3-3) will take the mound for the Athletics, his 14th start of the season.
- The right-hander allowed six hits in seven scoreless innings pitched against the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday.
- The 29-year-old has an ERA of 4.09, a 2.85 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.500 in 14 games this season.
- The Athletics strike out 8.3 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 25th in MLB.
- The Athletics have the 30th-ranked ERA (5.81) in the majors this season.
- Athletics pitchers have a 1.551 WHIP this season, worst in the majors.
- The Athletics have allowed the fifth-most home runs this season with 169, or 1.4 per game.
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Maikel Garcia Stats vs. the Athletics
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/7/2023 | Mason Miller | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 5/6/2023 | Ken Waldichuk | 1-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/1 | 1 |
| 5/5/2023 | Kyle Muller | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0/0 | 0 |
Garcia Stats and Trends
- Garcia has tallied a hit 63 times this season in 90 games played (70.0%), with 25 multi-hit efforts (27.8%).
- In four of 90 games this season, he has gone yard (4.4%). He’s hit a round-tripper in 1.1% of his trips to the plate.
- He has touched home plate in 37 of 90 games this year, including multiple runs scored in six of them.
- In 33 of 90 games this season (36.7%), Garcia has driven in a run, and in six of those games (6.7%) he knocked in multiple runs. He has also been responsible for three or more of his team’s runs in one contest.
- He has struck out one or more times in 54.4% of his games this year (49 of 90), striking out multiple times in 23 of them (25.6%).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 47 | GP | 43 |
| 33 (70.2%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 30 (69.8%) |
| 16 (34.0%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 9 (20.9%) |
| 22 (46.8%) | Games w/1+ Run | 15 (34.9%) |
| 1 (2.1%) | Games w/1+ HR | 3 (7.0%) |
| 20 (42.6%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 13 (30.2%) |
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