Pre-Game & Lineups 3/29: San Francisco Giants Head To Oakland For Game Three

Feb 28, 2014; Phoenix, AZ, USA; San Francisco Giants starting pitcher

Edwin Escobar

throws to the Oakland Athletics in the first inning of their spring training baseball game at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Lance Iversen-USA TODAY

The Giants will head to Oakland this afternoon for game three against the A’s. The A’s beat the Giants game one 4-0 and game two 4-1. Today’s game is at 1:05pm PT with a 90% chance of rain.

Check out some #SFGSpring action today at 1:05 PM PT vs. the Athletics. pic.twitter.com/vEXOHr4B8F
— SFGiants (@SFGiants) March 29, 2014

Edwin Escobar will start for for Giants today since Ryan Vogelsong went back to Arizona too start in a minor league game. Escobar started three games for the Giants in Spring Training and finished with a 5.19 ERA in 8.2 innings. He holds a 2.80 ERA in the minors, started last year with Class-A San Jose and finished with Double-A Richmond. He will be starting in Triple A Fresno this season.

Buster Posey will get a day off behind the plate today and instead be the Giants DH. Hector Sanchez will do the catching and we have Joaquin Arias back at 2B and Gregor Blanco in LF.

Dan Straily will start for the A’s today and has had success against the Giants in the past. Straily had a mediocre spring with a 4.73 ERA in 13.1 innings pitched. In the 2013 season he went 10-8 for the A’s with a 3.96 ERA in 151 innings pitched. He’ll be the A’s #3 starter this season.

Yoenis Cespedes is in for the A’s as DH and has had a horrible spring. He currently has a .167 batting average in 60 at bats. Not what you want to see from your Home Run Derby 2013 champion.

Lineups

Today's #sfgiants lineup - Pagan CF, Belt 1B, Sandoval 3B, Posey DH, Pence RF, Sanchez C, Blanco LF, Arias 2B, Crawford SS and Escobar LHP
— SFGiants (@SFGiants) March 29, 2014

A’s lineup 1. Crisp 2. Donaldson 3. Lowrie 4. Cespedes 5. Norris 6. Reddick 7. Callaspo 8. Fuld 9. Sogard P Strailey

The #Athletics lineup for today's Bay Bridge Series finale in Oakland against the #SFGiants... #GreenCollar pic.twitter.com/zzKoUUMBwX
— Oakland A's (@Athletics) March 29, 2014

Looks like the sewage problem is back at Oakland Coliseum.

http://t.co/3AQkb24qmy - Mike Gallego provides video of water backup in showers, toilets, flooding in #Athletics coaches room:
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) March 29, 2014

It really is beyond ridiculous that a Major League team has to deal with sewage issues at all, let alone several times a season. #Athletics
— Casey Pratt (@CaseyPrattABC7) March 29, 2014

Back in Oakland? Sewage problems in clubhouse!! Yep. We are BACK BABAY!
— Josh Reddick (@RealJoshReddick) March 29, 2014

It's not a rainy day at the Coliseum without sewage issues. Coaches' room flooding, with who knows what spewing out of toilets.
— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) March 29, 2014

Tim Lincecum is expecting to make his start on Thursday after getting hit in the knee by line drive last night.

Lincecum still optimistic for Thursday. Knee feels the same, no worse. Did he actually ice for once? "Four times already," he said.
— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) March 29, 2014

Barring Tim Lincecum waking up with a knee the size of a pomelo, here's what I expect #SFGiants roster will be: http://t.co/ERWmwIAf7J
— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) March 29, 2014

From all sides, looks like Lincecum will make scheduled start in AZ Thursday, but more to be known tomorrow. Plan B: Petit. #sfgiants
— John Shea (@JohnSheaHey) March 29, 2014

Schedule