Seattle Mariners at Oakland Athletics 6/23/22 - MLB Picks & Predictions

The Seattle Mariners will again be in Oakland, CA Thursday night for the final game of their series with the Oakland Athletics. Seattle is 9 games below .500 on the season following a blowout win in game one of this series. Marco Gonzales got the win for Seattle after giving up only two runs on seven hits across 7 innings of work. The Seattle bullpen was lights out as well allowing no runs on no hits across the final two innings of the game.

Offensively Seattle hit the ball extremely well with twelve hits in 36 at bats to score 8 total runs despite going an abysmal 2-11 with runners in scoring position. Julio Rodriguez and Jesse Winker led the way for the Seattle offense driving in two runs, while Eugenio Suarez drove in one run as well after going back to back to back in the 7th inning as a part of a 5-run frame.

The Oakland Athletics come into Thursday night 23 games below .500 on the year after losing three of the last four games played including game one of this series. James Kaprielian took the loss for Oakland last game out after giving up two runs on five hits across 5.1 innings of work. The Oakland bullpen was abysmal as well allowing six runs on seven hits across the final 3.2 innings of the game.

Tony Kemp is the offensive leader for Oakland this season with a .226 batting average to go along with a team leading 48 hits. Seth Brown supplies the Oakland power with nine home runs and 32 RBIs this year.