Lawrence Butler and the Oakland Athletics will take the field at Target Field on Thursday, September 28, where they will match up with the Minnesota Twins and starting pitcher Sonny Gray. The matchup will begin at 1:10 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Butler
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -151 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -117 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -114 |
| Strikeouts | 0.5 | -143 |
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Stats and Trends for the Minnesota Twins
- Gray (8-8) will take the mound for the Twins, his 32nd start of the season.
- The right-hander gave up one earned run in six innings pitched on Saturday in his last outing, a matchup with the Los Angeles Angels.
- The 33-year-old’s 2.75 ERA ranks third, 1.144 WHIP ranks 14th, and 8.9 K/9 ranks 25th among qualified pitchers in the majors this season.
- The Twins average 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, most in the league.
- Twins pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.87 this year, sixth-best in baseball.
- The Twins have a combined WHIP of just 1.198 as a pitching staff, which is the fourth-best in baseball this season.
- The Twins have given up 185 home runs so far this season (the 13th-ranked total in MLB play).
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Lawrence Butler Stats vs. the Twins
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/27/2023 | Pablo Lopez | 2-for-3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 9/26/2023 | Bailey Ober | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4/0 | 0 |
Butler Stats and Trends
- Butler has recorded a hit 18 times this year in 37 games played (48.6%), with six multi-hit efforts (16.2%).
- Out of the 37 games he has appeared in this season, he’s hit a home run in three contests (8.1%), going deep in 3.4% of his plate appearances.
- In seven of 37 games this year (18.9%), he has scored at least a run, including two games in which he scored more than one run.
- Butler has plated at least one run in 16.2% of his games this year (six of 37), including more than one RBI in three of those games (8.1%). He has also knocked in three or more of his team’s runs in one contest.
- He has gone down on strikes one or more times in 56.8% of his games this season (21 of 37), striking out multiple times in eight of those games (21.6%).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | GP | 19 |
| 8 (44.4%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 10 (52.6%) |
| 4 (22.2%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 2 (10.5%) |
| 2 (11.1%) | Games w/1+ Run | 5 (26.3%) |
| 1 (5.6%) | Games w/1+ HR | 2 (10.5%) |
| 3 (16.7%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 3 (15.8%) |
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