The upcoming game between Taylor Ward’s Los Angeles Angels and the Oakland Athletics (with Ken Waldichuk drawing the start) is scheduled for Sunday, April 2 at 4:07 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Ward
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 1.5 | +103 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -127 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -120 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | +111 |
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Stats and Trends for the Oakland Athletics
- The Athletics will send out Waldichuk for his first start of the season.
- The last time the 25-year-old pitched was on Saturday against the Los Angeles Angels. The lefty threw zero scoreless innings out of the bullpen in that matchup.
- He finished last season with a 4.93 ERA and a 1.212 WHIP while earning a 2-2 record.
- The Athletics struck out 7.6 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 25th in MLB.
- Athletics pitchers had a combined ERA of 4.55 last year, which ranked 25th in MLB.
- The Athletics had a combined WHIP of 1.333 as a pitching staff, which ranked 23rd in MLB.
- The Athletics gave up the fourth-most long balls last season with 195 home runs allowed.
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Taylor Ward Stats vs. the Athletics
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/1/2023 | Shintaro Fujinami | 3-for-5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 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 |
Ward Stats and Trends
- Ward had a hit 92 times last season in 135 games (68.1%), including 36 multi-hit games (26.7%).
- In 21 of 135 games last year, he went yard (15.6%). He went deep in 4.1% of his trips to the dish in 2022.
- In 42.2% of his 135 games last season, he scored (57 times). He had 14 games with multiple runs in 2022 (10.4%).
- Ward picked up an RBI in 41 out of 135 games last year (30.4%), with more than one RBI in 16 of them (11.9%).
- In 62.2% of his 135 games last season, he was set down on strikes at least once (84 games). He also had 30 games with multiple strikeouts in 2022 (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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