On Thursday, August 24 at 8:10 PM ET, Brent Rooker and the Oakland Athletics will match up with starter Jesse Scholtens and the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field, airing on NSPCH.
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Player Prop Odds for Rooker
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 1.5 | +100 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -127 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -133 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | -129 |
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Stats and Trends for the Chicago White Sox
- Scholtens (1-6) will take to the mound for the White Sox and make his seventh start of the season.
- The right-hander’s last start was on Sunday, when he tossed three innings while giving up five earned runs on five hits in a matchup with the Colorado Rockies.
- The 29-year-old has pitched in 20 games this season with a 3.79 ERA, 6.4 strikeouts per nine innings and a batting average against of .253.
- The White Sox have a 9.5 K/9 this season as a pitching staff, second-best in baseball.
- White Sox pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.82 this year, which ranks 26th in MLB.
- The White Sox have a combined WHIP of 1.410 as a pitching staff, which is fifth-worst in baseball this season.
- The White Sox have given up the fourth-most long balls so far this season with 176 home runs allowed.
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Brent Rooker Stats vs. the White Sox
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/2/2023 | Touki Toussaint | 1-for-2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 6/30/2023 | Tanner Banks | 1-for-3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 9/1/2022 | Johnny Cueto | 0-for-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 8/30/2022 | Lucas Giolito | 0-for-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 0 |
| 8/11/2021 | Reynaldo López | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4/0 | 0 |
| 8/10/2021 | Dallas Keuchel | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 8/9/2021 | Lucas Giolito | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4/0 | 0 |
Rooker Stats and Trends
- Rooker has picked up a hit in 57.5% of his 106 games this year, with more than one hit in 20.8% of them (22).
- He has hit a long ball in 19 of 106 games in 2023 (17.9%), which is 5.2% of his trips to the dish.
- He has scored a run in 34.9% of his 106 games this year. That includes more than one run scored in 7.5% of those contests (eight).
- Rooker has plated at least one run 31 times this season in 106 games played (29.2%), including 14 times driving in multiple runs (13.2%). He has also knocked in three or more of his team’s runs in seven contests.
- He has gone down on strikes in 69.8% of his 106 games this year, while fanning more than once in 38.7% of those contests (41).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 54 | GP | 52 |
| 27 (50.0%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 34 (65.4%) |
| 9 (16.7%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 13 (25.0%) |
| 15 (27.8%) | Games w/1+ Run | 22 (42.3%) |
| 7 (13.0%) | Games w/1+ HR | 12 (23.1%) |
| 12 (22.2%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 19 (36.5%) |
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