Oakland Athletics catcher Shea Langeliers is not in the lineup for Thursday afternoon's series finale against right-hander Michael Lorenzen and the Detroit Tigers.
Langeliers will take a seat for the day game after a night game. He went 2-for-5 with a dinger and 2 runs scored on Wednesday. Manny Pina will catch for Hogan Harris and hit ninth on Thursday afternoon.
numberFire’s models project Pina ($2,000) for 5.8 FanDuel points on Wednesday. Per our MLB Heat Map, the Athletics' implied total is 3.81 and the game total is 8.5. Lorenzen has a 4.28 ERA and 4.70 xERA this season, with a 40.3% hard-hit rate, 18.6% strikeout rate, and 6.0% walk rate.
Source: Baseball Press