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The A’s start their final series of the first half tonight, taking on the Houston Astros Friday night at the Coliseum.
Righty Paul Blackburn will be tasked with holding down a dangerous Astros team that’s won nine of their past ten. Houston’s gone 30-2 in games they’ve scored five or more runs so keeping the Astros off the board will be crucial.
And theres’s a new name at the top of the lineup in Vimael Machin. This’ll be his first time manning the leadoff spot for the big league club.
A’s lineup (home)
- 3B Vimael Machin (L)
- CF Ramon Laureano (R)
- 1B Seth Brown (L)
- C Sean Murphy (R)
- DH Christian Bethancourt (R)
- SS Elvis Andrus (R)
- RF Stephen Piscotty (R)
- LF Tony Kemp (L)
- 2B Nick Allen (R)
- RHP Paul Blackburn
Astros lineup (away)
- 2B Jose Altuve (L)
- LF Aledmys Diaz (R)
- DH Yordan Alvarez (L)
- 3B Alex Bregman (R)
- RF Kyle Tucker (L)
- 1B Yuli Gurriel (R)
- CF Jake Meyers (R)
- SS Mauricio Dubon (R)
- C Martin Maldonado (R)
- RHP Jose Urquidy
How to watch/listen
- Date: Friday, July 8
- Time: 6:40 p.m. PT
- TV: NBC Sports California
- Radio: 960 AM
- Streaming (listen): A’s Cast
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