The Oakland Athletics will proceed a nine-game highway swing whereas on the lookout for their season-best third consecutive win on Friday after they go to the Milwaukee Brewers
Milwaukee welcomes Oakland to city as a part of a six-game homestand, which reached the halfway level with a 6-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday.
The Brewers took the primary two within the sequence with a 4-3, 10-inning win on Tuesday and a 10-2 rout on Wednesday, however they gave up all six runs within the ultimate three innings on Thursday. Milwaukee went eight innings with out scoring after leaping forward 3-0
“We did not get a lot going after that,” Milwaukee supervisor Craig Counsell mentioned. “We simply did not take many good swings afterward.”
Regardless of falling wanting the sweep, the Brewers noticed Joey Weimer lengthen his hitting streak to 9 video games on Thursday. Wiemer knocked the game-winning single within the tenth inning on Tuesday and homered twice on Wednesday
“I am not going to say (my swing is) utterly right here,” Weimer, who was hitting .187 earlier than the present streak started, instructed the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “You are all the time working. You are all the time attempting to determine one thing new and maintain going.”
He appears to maintain it going Friday in opposition to Oakland starter Luis Medina (0-5, 8.19 ERA).
The best-hander lasted simply two innings in his final begin, giving up six runs within the Athletics‘ 12-1 loss at Miami on June 3. Medina’s ERA in three appearances on the highway is 11.68
Whereas Medina has struggled on the highway, Oakland continues its ongoing highway swing with some constructive momentum after taking two in a row from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The A’s scored a 9-5 win within the sequence finale on Wednesday as Ryan Noda hit his seventh residence run of the season. He produced two hits in every of the final three video games, together with an 11-2 win at Pittsburgh on Tuesday, and he logged a number of hits in 4 of his previous 5 outings.
“We’re getting there,” Noda mentioned about Oakland’s hitting, based on the group’s official web site. “We’re getting shut. I am simply attempting to battle and get the following man up. Making an attempt to start out a prepare.”
The consecutive wins over the Pirates snapped a five-game shedding skid for Oakland, which additionally skilled a 10-game shedding streak from Might 17-28.
The A’s will attempt to maintain the constructive momentum happening Friday after they face Milwaukee right-hander Adrian Houser (2-1, 3.45 ERA).
Houser can be dealing with Oakland for the primary time since July 30, 2019, when he struck out six batters and allowed one run over 5 innings in a no-decision. That assembly was Houser’s solely profession matchup with the A’s.
Houser recorded a win in his most up-to-date begin, tossing seven innings of one-run ball within the Brewers‘ 5-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday
–Area Stage Media
