{"id":244360,"date":"2025-09-21T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244360\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:20:16","slug":"game-155-athletics-vs-pirates-game-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244360\/","title":{"rendered":"Game # 155, Athletics vs Pirates Game Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The finale of the three-game series, and the end of the last road trip of the season takes place today as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/athletics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Athletics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Athletics<\/a> take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Pirates;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. The A\u2019s bats were silenced yesterday facing highly touted rookie Bubba Chandler and a cadre of relievers. A\u2019s hitters will have to do better today if they want to take the series and head home to West Sacramento on a high note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Taking the mound for the A\u2019s today is 27-year-old righty Mitch Spence. Spence is 3-5 on the season with a 4.48 ERA in seven starts and thirty appearances. He\u2019s also logged one save this year. He pitched against the Pirates once in his career, April 30, 2024 and went three scoreless innings giving up just one hit and grabbing the win.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He\u2019ll go up against 25-year-old righty Mike Burrows for the Pirates. Burrows is 2-4 this season with a 4.10 ERA in twenty-one games. This will be his nineteenth start of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Burrows will face this lineup for Mark Kotsay\u2019s A\u2019s today:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/G1YPcfWXgAIjbTo?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:View Link;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">View Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Spence will go up against this lineup for the Pirates this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/G1YavWFXgAEUc5c?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:View Link;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">View Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Follow the Game:<br \/><\/strong><strong>Watch:<br \/><\/strong>Athletics \u2013 NBCSCA<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Listen:<br \/><\/strong>Athletics \u2013 Talk 650 KSTE, A\u2019s Cast, KWNR 95.5 The Bull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The finale of the three-game series, and the end of the last road trip of the season takes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3955,93793,3380,130149,1266,1886,62,7950,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-244360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-bubba-chandler","10":"tag-mike-burrows","11":"tag-mitch-spence","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-the-athletics","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115243438954968772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}