Oakland at San Francisco

Oakland has won all three starts made by Paul Blackburn (1.80 ERA), who sports a 14-to-1 strikeout to walk ratio in 15 innings. The A's have one of the best run differentials in the AL. Oakland is 25-11 on the road against southpaws and gets a look at San Francisco lefty Sam Long, who had a 5.53 ERA last year. MLB underdogs like Oakland after four consecutive games with seven or fewer hits are 52-36 against a starting pitcher who gave up one or fewer runs in his last outing. Play Oakland.