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Henry Bolte homers off Tarik Skubal in defeat

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Henry Bolte connected on his third homer, was hit by a pitch and scored twice Tuesday against the Tigers.

Bolte’s homer was a 108-mph, 411-foot blast off Tarik Skubal, giving the A’s their lone run in five innings against the two-time Cy Young Award winner. Kind of surprisingly, Bolte was dropped to ninth in the order tonight. He entered with a .370 OBP and he’s led off several times recently, but the A’s had Zack Gelof in the top spot tonight. Bolte’s homer was his third in 186 plate appearances since being called up. He’s not taking advantage of his power while hitting the ball on the ground about two-thirds of the time, but it is there, waiting to come out.

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Henry Bolte went 3-for-4 with a homer in a loss Saturday to the Tigers.

Bolte’s homer was a three-run shot that cut the Tigers’ lead in half to 8-5. The 22-year-old also doubled and singled in one of his best games an MLB player thus far. The power production has been middle in his .350 slugging percentage, but a .257 average and .340 on-base percentage to pair with it is nothing to sneeze at.
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Henry Bolte is not in the Athletics’ starting lineup for Thursday’s showdown against the Red Sox.

Bolte has been a fixture in center field since his arrival in the big leagues, so he’ll get a hard-earned day off in this one. Lawrence Butler will slide over to take his place in center with Carlos Cortes starting in right field and batting eighth for the A’s against Sonny Gray and the Red Sox on Thursday evening in West Sacramento.
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Henry Bolte went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts in his third straight hitless game Monday against the Red Sox.

Bolte is down to .243/.320/.322 with his groundball-heavy ways. We’d just as soon see the A’s stick with him the rest of the way, but if they get Denzel Clarke back next month, Bolte might receive some more Triple-A time. Ideally, that would come with some instruction on how to lift the ball more than one-third of the time. He needs to cut back on the strikeouts some, too, but that’s not the primary problem.
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Henry Bolte is not in the lineup on Wednesday against the Diamondbacks

The rookie has struggled of late, slashing .140/.189/.220 in his last 15 games with a 15/1 K/BB ratio. He’s been mostly solid in his first MLB season, but there remains a chance that the A’s could move Zack Gelof back to the outfield when he returns from his knee injury and keep Tommy White active in the infield. Bolte’s playing time does not seem as guaranteed as it was a few weeks ago.
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Henry Bolte went 0-for-3 and drove in the Athletics’ lone run in Thursday night’s loss to the Tigers.

Bolte came to the dish with runners at the corners and one out in the first inning and hit a slow bouncer to first base that the Tigers were unable to turn the double play on, plating Jacob Wilson in the process. The rookie outfielder also made a couple of terrific catches in center field in the contest. At the dish, he’s hitting .274/.354/.363 with three homers, 16 RBI and 11 stolen bases in 193 plate appearances.
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Henry Bolte is in center field and hitting leadoff on Monday against the Dodgers.

Bolte finds himself in the leadoff spot for the sixth consecutive game during Monday’s series opener at Dodger Stadium. The 22-year-old rookie’s staggering 66 percent groundball rate is a real cause for concern, but he has a chance to be an extremely impactful fantasy contributor if he starts getting the ball in the air with greater regularity. He’s hitting .299/.385/.388 with two homers, 12 RBI and 10 steals in 157 plate appearances over 42 games since ascending to the big leagues.
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Henry Bolte went 1-for-4 with a two-run homer in the A’s 7-5 win over the Brewers on Tuesday.

Twenty-two games into his career, Bolte had still been searching for his first major league home run after crushing 12 over 22 games in Triple-A. He finally got on the board with a two-run blast off Robert Gasser in the second inning, a 106.9 mph shot at 446 feet. The 22-year-old outfielder has otherwise performed well, hitting .295/.371/.385 with seven runs scored, seven RBI, and four steals across 89 plate appearances.
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Henry Bolte is not in the Athletics’ starting lineup for Sunday afternoon’s showdown against the Astros.

It appears to be nothing more than a routine day of rest for the 22-year-old outfielder. Lawrence Butler will start in his place in center field and will bat sixth for the A’s against Astros’ right-hander Mike Burrows.
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Henry Bolte had three of the Athletics’ five hits in the loss to the Astros on Friday.

Bolte was hardly a sure thing as a 22-year-old callup last month, but he’s hit .328/.397/.391 through 73 plate appearances. His .457 BABIP is surely something of a fluke, and his contact numbers are worse than his 26 percent strikeout rate might suggest. However, he’s hitting the ball plenty hard — he had an 111-mph single and a 112-mph double tonight — and his defense should help keep him in the lineup. He really just needs to start getting the ball into the air more often in order to ensure that he sticks around.
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Henry Bolte is out of the lineup for Wednesday’s game against the Cubs.

Bolte has begun ceding playing time to Lawrence Butler on a more regular basis 286/.369/.321 with zero homers, four RBI and four steals in 18 games since being called up from Triple-A Las Vegas last month. He’s sat in three of the club’s last seven games. Fantasy managers were probably expecting more production from an over-the-fence power standpoint based on his minor league breakthrough earlier this season. It hasn’t happened so far.

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Daniel Palencia, out with a flexor strain in his elbow, is slated to pitch for Triple-A Iowa on Wednesday.

The Cubs didn’t add a veteran closer before the deadline, so it looks like Palancia will have a chance to get his job back upon returning. He’ll definitely need at least a couple of rehab appearances first.
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The Padres will have Randy Vásquez start Tuesday’s game against the D-backs.

Vásquez last pitched Thursday against the Giants, throwing 4 2/3 scoreless innings in relief. JP Sears started that game, but he was in the pen and gave up two runs in an inning in Sunday’s game.
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Brandon Pfaadt

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Brandon Pfaadt allowed only an unearned run over 6 2/3 innings Monday in the Diamondbacks’ 5-1 defeat of the Padres.

Pfaadt’s strong groundball rate has taken a hit in his last two starts, but it hasn’t kept him from pitching 13 2/3 innings without allowing an earned run. He allowed five hits, walked one and struck out three tonight. He has a 1.78 ERA in his last five starts despite striking out just 13 in 30 1/3 innings, but that strikeout rate is scarier now that he’s no longer racking up the grounders. Even with all of his recent success, he’s not a great play with the Dodgers next on the schedule.
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Brandyn Garcia pitched a perfect ninth with a four-run lead against the Padres on Monday.

Garcia was robbed of what could have been his third save in five days when the D-backs scored twice in the bottom of the eighth to make it a 5-1 game. He pitched the ninth anyway and turned in a third straight hitless frame. He seems like the favorite for saves in Arizona right now, though because he’s a lefty, he might be needed earlier in games at times.
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Michael King

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Michael King surrendered three runs in five innings Monday in a loss to the Diamondbacks.

Tim Tawa’s homer in the fourth, which was set up by a walk and a single, did all of the damage. King dropped to 6-8 with a 3.45 ERA. The run support really hasn’t been there for him, but this is the first time he’s lost in four games in which the Padres have scored only one run. He had twice won 1-0 and once taken a no-decision after allowing one run in six innings. He’ll face the Astros next.
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Tim Tawa went 3-for-4 and hit a three-run homer in Monday’s win over the Padres.

Tawa was back at first base tonight after starting in center field the previous two days. He’ll probably play less outfield with Lars Nootbaar around, but he might just start at first base regularly anyway. While we’re not really buying in, he has hit .266 with four homers and 16 RBI in 23 games since he was recalled July 5.
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Junior Caminero launched his 31st and 32nd homers to help power the Rays past the Rockies 13-9 on Monday.

All five of his balls in play tonight were hit at least 98 mph, with the homers checking in at 112 and 109 mph. Caminero is moving into some very rare territory now with 84 homers through his age-22 season. He moved past Al Kaline tonight and is now tied with Mickey Mantle for 15th place on that list. Next up are Jimmie Foxx at 86 and Johnny Bench and Ken Griffey Jr. at 87. He’s not going to approach Mel Ott’s record of 115, but he ought to finish up in the top 10.
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Ian Seymour held the Rockies to two runs in six innings and struck out nine to win in Coors Field on Monday.

Seymour has struggled to find much consistency either as a reliever or, more recently, as a starter/bulk guy, but he showed tonight why he remains pretty intriguing. Unfortunately, as a result of the Freddy Peralta acquisition, he might go back to being a true reliever once Shane McClanahan returns. First, he should be in line for at least one more start Sunday against the Mariners.
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Michael Lorenzen was tagged for seven runs in three innings by the Rays on Monday.

Seven hits allowed, three walks and no strikeouts for Lorenzen tonight. The Rockies probably don’t have anyone they want to replace him with right now, but it’d be nice if they could move on later this month. He’ll take a 3-10 record and a 6.94 ERA into his next start in St. Louis.
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Jonathan Aranda finished 4-for-5 with a double and two RBI versus the Rockies on Monday.

Facing Rockies pitching at Coors Field was just what the slumping Aranda needed. He was 11-for-60 with one RBI and 21 strikeouts in his previous 15 games.
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