The upcoming matchup between Drew Waters’ Kansas City Royals and the Oakland Athletics (with Paul Blackburn drawing the start) is scheduled for Monday, August 21 at 9:40 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Waters
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 1.5 | +101 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -128 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -134 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | -140 |
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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 pitched in 14 games this season with a 4.09 ERA, 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings and a batting average against of .279.
- The Athletics average the 25th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.3) in the league this season.
- 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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Waters Stats and Trends
- Waters has a hit in 57.1% of his games this season (36 of 63), and he posted more than one hit in 12 of those contests (19.0%).
- In 11.1% of his games this season, he has homered (seven of 63). He’s gone deep in 3% of his trips to the plate during the 2023 campaign.
- He has scored at least one run in 22 of 63 games this season (34.9%), which includes more than one run scored in seven of those games (11.1%).
- Waters has produced at least one run 17 times this year in 63 games played (27.0%), including five games with more than one RBI (7.9%). He has also accounted for three or more of his team’s runs in two contests.
- He has struck out one or more times in 74.6% of his games this season (47 of 63), striking out multiple times in 25 of them (39.7%).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | GP | 31 |
| 22 (68.8%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 14 (45.2%) |
| 7 (21.9%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 5 (16.1%) |
| 16 (50.0%) | Games w/1+ Run | 6 (19.4%) |
| 4 (12.5%) | Games w/1+ HR | 3 (9.7%) |
| 10 (31.3%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 7 (22.6%) |
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