Taylor Ward and the Los Angeles Angels face off against starter Shintaro Fujinami and the Oakland Athletics at 4:07 PM ET on Saturday, April 1 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
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Player Prop Odds for Ward
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 1.5 | +104 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -121 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -119 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | +107 |
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Stats and Trends for the Oakland Athletics
- The Athletics will send out Fujinami for his first start of the season.
- This will be the first MLB start for the 28-year-old right-hander.
- The Athletics averaged the 25th-most strikeouts per nine innings (7.6) in the league last season.
- The Athletics had the 25th-ranked ERA (4.55) in the majors last season.
- Athletics pitchers had a 1.333 WHIP last season, 23rd in the majors.
- The Athletics allowed the fourth-most home runs last season with 195, or 1.2 per game.
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Taylor Ward Stats vs. the Athletics
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3/30/2023 | Kyle Muller | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 1 |
| 10/5/2022 | Ken Waldichuk | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 10/4/2022 | Cole Irvin | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 10/3/2022 | Adrian Martinez | 2-for-5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 9/29/2022 | Cole Irvin | 3-for-3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | 0 |
| 9/28/2022 | Adrian Martinez | 2-for-4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 9/27/2022 | James Kaprielian | 2-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 1 |
| 8/10/2022 | JP Sears | 0-for-5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 8/9/2022 | James Kaprielian | 1-for-3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1/2 | 0 |
| 8/8/2022 | Cole Irvin | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
Ward Stats and Trends
- Ward got a hit in 68.1% of his 135 games last season, with multiple hits in 26.7% of those contests.
- In 21 of 135 games last year, he left the yard (15.6%). He went deep in 4.1% of his trips to the dish in 2022.
- He touched home plate in 57 of 135 games last season, with multiple runs in 14 of those games.
- In 30.4% of his 135 games a year ago, Ward drove in a run (41 times). He also had 16 games with multiple RBIs (11.9%), and three or more RBIs in five games.
- He went down on strikes one or more times 84 times last season in 135 games (62.2%), including 30 multi-strikeout games (22.2%).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 62 | GP | 73 |
| 43 (69.4%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 49 (67.1%) |
| 18 (29.0%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 18 (24.7%) |
| 29 (46.8%) | Games w/1+ Run | 28 (38.4%) |
| 9 (14.5%) | Games w/1+ HR | 12 (16.4%) |
| 20 (32.3%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 21 (28.8%) |
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