Oakland at Minnesota

The Oakland A's offense is going to cost them a lot of games. They have perhaps the weakest lineup in baseball and the results are starting to go against them. This is a team that has produced three runs or less 26 times already this season and has already been shutout eight times, on a record pace of close to 30 shutouts. The Twins are a bad team that has played much better over their last 12 where they are a .500 team. The offense has breathed some life into them as they have scored an average of 5.8 runs per contest in those last dozen, good enough to have the edge in this one vs. the hapless bats of the A's. Oakland, who has now dropped six straight, are 1-6 in their last seven on the road vs. a team under .400. Play on Minnesota in this one.