Oakland Athletics vs Los Angeles Dodgers 8/2/2023 Picks

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02 August 2023

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This Wednesday, August 2, the Los Angeles Dodgers welcome the Oakland Athletics to Dodgers Stadium. The Oakland Athletics enter this game with a record of 30-77.

The Athletics have 387 runs, 786 hits, 100 home runs, and a batting average of.221. Oakland is striking out 857 batters while pitching at a 5.57 ERA and 1.56 WHIP.

Hogan Harris, the Athletics’ starting pitcher, has a 6.51 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, and 49 strikeouts through 56 innings pitched.

After losing 2-0 to the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, the Oakland Athletics’ season record dropped to 30-77. They could not sweep a three-game interleague series at Denver’s Coors Field.

The A’s managed just five hits in Sunday’s closer against the Rockies after scoring 19 runs in their previous two games (8-5 and 11-3).

In the previous few weeks and 357 at-bats, Oakland has slashed a lackluster.246/.328/.415 with 21 extra-base hits and 12 home homers.

The pitching staff for the Athletics has performed admirably over that time, amassing a 3.38 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, and 0.216 batting average. The Athletics batted 100 balls out of the ballpark, accounting for 144 two-baggers.

Oakland has a slugging percentage of 0.359 and has walked 352 times while striking out 986 times. The Oakland Athletics rank 30th in the league in scoring offense with 3.6 runs scored per game.

They have 786 hits this season, 372 RBIs, and a club batting average of 0.223 overall. While clinging on, they scored 387 runs.

It is anticipated that Hogan Harris will start on Wednesday in Los Angeles.

The 26-year-old rookie Southpaw has made five starts and seven relief appearances for 56.1 innings thrown in 2023, going 2-5 with a dismal 6.07 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, and a 49/23 K/BB ratio.

In 18 innings of work during his 0-3 month of July, Harris let up an astounding 16 earned runs on 20 hits and 8 walks.

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Los Angeles Dodgers have a 59-45 record. The Dodgers have 578 runs, 878 hits, and 162 home runs while batting.235. Mookie Betts leads the Dodgers in batting with a.238 average, 27 home runs, and 68 RBIs.

The Dodgers have a 4.43 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, and 891 strikeouts in their rotation. Tony Gonsolin is listed as the starting pitcher for the Dodgers.

He has a record of 5-4, a 4.28 ERA, a 1.19 WHIP, and 68 strikeouts in 82.2 innings thrown.

The Los Angeles Dodgers lost a few home three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays and Cincinnati Reds last week, going 2-4 overall. The Blue Crew lost to the Reds last Sunday, 9-0, dropping their season record to 59-45.

On Tuesday, the Dodgers were still in first place in the NL West, two and a half games ahead of the San Francisco Giants.

This year, Los Angeles has amassed 168 home runs and 558 RBIs. They made 578 runs, walked 437 times, and hit 188 doubles. The Los Angeles Dodgers finished the season with an OBP of 0.334 and a batting average of 0.247.

The Dodgers are third in baseball, with 5.56 runs scored per game and a team slugging percentage of 0.451. They have 872 hits but have been called out on strikes 907 times, ranking 17th in MLB.

The Dodgers have batted a solid.272/.362/.452 over the past two weeks in 389 at-bats, with 22 doubles and 16 home runs.

On the other hand, their pitching staff had a lot of difficulty, with a 5.67 ERA, 1.49 WHIP, and 0.274 batting average during that time.

On the mound on Wednesday will be 29-year-old right-hander Tony Gonsolin, who is 5-4 with a 4.25 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, and a 68/33 K/BB ratio in 16 starts (82.2 IP) so far this year.

Gonsolin has a 7.25 ERA, 5.52 FIP, and.827 OPS across his previous seven starts and 36 innings of work, which has been terrible since mid-June.

Gonsolin suffered an 8-1 defeat against the Blue Jays last Wednesday after allowing five earned runs on seven hits and three walks over five innings.

Oakland Athletics vs Los Angeles Dodgers. The MLB pick for this game is the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Oakland Athletics will lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The baseball team’s front staff has given up on them and is trying to relocate to another state and stadium. It would be preferable to fade the Athletics going forward.

While the As will occasionally win a game, you will lose more trying to catch them before they do. LAD -1.5 is the best wager. The Los Angeles Dodgers win, cover the spread, and the total remains below 5-1 in the final score projection.

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