Maikel Garcia’s Kansas City Royals and the Oakland Athletics, who will be sending Adrian Martinez to the mound, face off at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on Wednesday, August 23. The first pitch will be thrown at 3:37 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Garcia
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 1.5 | +102 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -124 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -120 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | +103 |
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Stats and Trends for the Oakland Athletics
- Martinez gets the nod for the Athletics and will make his first start of the season.
- The 26-year-old right-hander will make his first start after pitching in relief 14 times this year.
- He has pitched in 14 games this season with an ERA of 5.85, a batting average against of .270 and 7.8 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Athletics average the 24th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.3) in the league this season.
- The Athletics have the 30th-ranked ERA (5.78) in the majors this season.
- Athletics pitchers have a 1.541 WHIP this season, worst in the majors.
- The Athletics have allowed the fifth-most home runs this season with 170, or 1.3 per game.
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Maikel Garcia Stats vs. the Athletics
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/22/2023 | Dany Jimenez | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1/1 | 0 |
| 8/21/2023 | Paul Blackburn | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 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
- In 65 of 92 games this season (70.7%), Garcia has gotten a hit, and he collected at least two hits in 25 of those contests (27.2%).
- In 4.3% of his games this season, he has homered (four of 92). He’s left the yard in 1.1% of his trips to the plate during the 2023 campaign.
- He has scored a run in 38 of 92 games this year, including multiple runs scored in six of them.
- In 37.0% of his 92 games this season, Garcia has notched an RBI (34 times). Also, he’s notched six games with multiple RBI in 2023 (6.5%) and produced three or more of his team’s runs in one contest.
- He has fanned 51 times this year in 92 tries (55.4%), including punching out on multiple occasions in 25.0% of games (23 times).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 47 | GP | 45 |
| 33 (70.2%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 32 (71.1%) |
| 16 (34.0%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 9 (20.0%) |
| 22 (46.8%) | Games w/1+ Run | 16 (35.6%) |
| 1 (2.1%) | Games w/1+ HR | 3 (6.7%) |
| 20 (42.6%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 14 (31.1%) |
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