Dairon Blanco’s Kansas City Royals and the Oakland Athletics, who will be sending Paul Blackburn to the mound, match up at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on Monday, August 21. The first pitch will be thrown at 9:40 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Blanco
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 1.5 | +103 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -123 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -118 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | +103 |
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Stats and Trends for the Oakland Athletics
- The Athletics will hand the ball to Blackburn (3-3) for his 14th start of the season.
- The right-hander’s last start was on Wednesday, when he tossed seven innings without allowing a run on six hits in a matchup with the St. Louis Cardinals.
- The 29-year-old has pitched in 14 games this season with an ERA of 4.09, a 2.85 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.500.
- The Athletics strike out 8.3 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 25th in MLB.
- Athletics pitchers have a combined ERA of 5.81 this year, which ranks 30th in MLB.
- The Athletics have a combined WHIP of 1.551 as a pitching staff, which is worst in baseball this season.
- The Athletics have given up the fifth-most long balls so far this season with 169 home runs allowed.
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Blanco Stats and Trends
- Blanco has picked up a hit in 18 of 30 games this season (60.0%), with multiple base hits in two of them.
- In the 30 games he’s appeared in this season, he has zero homers.
- He has scored at least one run in six of 30 games played this season (20.0%), including two games where he scored more than one run.
- Blanco has tallied at least one RBI in nine of 30 games played this season (30.0%), including two games with more than one run driven in.
- He has fanned 14 times this year in 30 tries (46.7%), including striking out on multiple occasions in 23.3% of games (seven times).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | GP | 16 |
| 8 (57.1%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 10 (62.5%) |
| 2 (14.3%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 0 (0.0%) |
| 4 (28.6%) | Games w/1+ Run | 2 (12.5%) |
| 0 (0.0%) | Games w/1+ HR | 0 (0.0%) |
| 5 (35.7%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 4 (25.0%) |
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