Today at 3:45 p.m. ET, the Oakland Athletics (57-34) and San Francisco Giants (50-41) take the field take the field at the AT&T Park in San Francisco for the fourth and final game of the 2014 Bay Bridge Series. The game can be live streamed here. Oakland fans can hear all of the action on 95.7 The Game while San Francisco fans can do the same KNBR 680.
San Francisco looks for its second straight home win against the A's and to split the four-game set while Oakland looks to secure a Bay Bridge Series win after taking the first two games at the O.co Coliseum but dropping the opening road game when the series shifted over the bridge.
The Athletics won 5-0 on Monday and 6-1 on Tuesday in Oakland while the Giants notched a 5-2 win on Wednesday in San Francisco. Both teams enter in first place in their respective divisions.
Scott Kazmir (10-3, 2.53 ERA) take the mound for Oakland while San Francisco counters with Tim Hudson, who is 7-5 with a 2.53 ERA.
Hudson, whose ERA ranks fifth in the NL, will face the A's, the first team that gave him a shot in the MLB.
"The six years I was there, man, those were some of the best times of my life," Hudson told MLB.com. "I can always look back on the fond memories."
Hudson will look to navigate through an Oakland lineup that is one of the major reasons that the A's own the best record in baseball, and even shortstop Jed Lowrie is starting to hit as he comes into the contest with five-straight multi-hit games after slumping most of the year.
"Literally everything is exactly the same, except the hits weren't falling," Lowrie said about his approach via MLB.com. "It still is a head-scratcher."
Athletics third baseman Josh Donaldson leads the team with 19 homers and 63 RBI and ranks fifth in the AL with 59 runs while outfielder Coco Crisp paces the Athletics with a .291 batting average.
San Francisco outfielder Hunter Pence leads the team with a .302 batting average and ranks third in the NL with 65 runs scored and 110 hits while shortstop Brandon Crawford is second in the NL with eight triples. Giants outfielder Michael Morse leads the team with 14 homers and 46 RBI.
The Athletics and Giants close out the 2014 Bay Bridge Series when they take the field this afternoon at AT&T Park in San Francisco.
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