Game #101, Athletics vs. D-backs Game Thread

Athletics starting pitcher Jack Perkins will take the mound tonight at Chase Field in Arizona. | Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Game two of the three-game series between the Athletics and the Arizona Diamondbacks will take place tonight at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. The A’s took the opener last ni

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Game two of the three-game series between the Athletics and the Arizona Diamondbacks will take place tonight at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. The A’s took the opener last night 5-2 behind Joshua Kuroda-Grauer’s first MLB homer and a 4-5 night by Tommy White.

Taking the mound tonight for the Athletics is 26-year-old righty Jack Perkins. Perkins is 2-5 with a 6.87 ERA this season with seventy-two strikeouts in 57.2 innings. He’ll go up against 26-year-old righthanded rookie Kohl Drake who is making

his major league debut tonight. He was called up today from the D-backs AAA affiliate Reno Aces.

Drake will face off against this lineup for Mark Kotsay’s A’s:

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Perkins will go up against this lineup for the Diamondbacks:

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Follow the Game:
Watch:
Athletics – NBCSCA

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Athletics – Talk 650 KSTE, A’s Cast