OAKLAND Joe DiMaggio Jersey , Calif. — opportunity to convince the Oakland Athletics to take “bullpenning” into the postseason when he opens a six-game homestand Tuesday night against the Los Angeles Angels.The A’s will enter the final 13 days (12 games) of the regular season with a chance to capture the American League West or a wild-card playoff spot in the AL.Despite coming off a disappointing 3-3 trip against Baltimore and Tampa Bay, a pair of sub-.500 teams from the AL East, Oakland (90-60) will take the field Tuesday just 1 1/2 games behind the New York Yankees (91-58) in the race for the first wild-card spot in the AL.Article continues below ...The Yankees, who own the tie-breaker over the A’s, host the Boston Red Sox in a three-game series starting Tuesday.The Houston Astros (94-55) took a 4 1/2-game lead over the A’s atop the AL West into their series opener at home against Seattle on Monday night.Hendriks (0-1, 5.60) has served as Oakland’s “opener” five times this month and has allowed runs on just one occasion. But the A’s have lost three of the five games, including his most recent start, 7-5 at Tampa Bay on Saturday.The 2-3 team record in Hendriks’ starts hasn’t necessarily been his fault. He’s allowed just two runs and four hits in 5 2/3 innings in those games, and the two runs came the only time he was allowed to begin a second inning Sept. 1 against Seattle.Meanwhile, Oakland’s normally reliable bullpen has been roughed up for 21 earned runs and 33 hits in 38 1/3 innings in those games, numbers that would look a lot worse if you threw out the eighth scoreless, hitless innings at Baltimore last Wednesday.Hendriks has faced the Angels 27 times in his career, just once as a starter Mickey Mantle Jersey , and compiled a 1-2 record with a 3.86 ERA.Hendriks is scheduled to be opposed by Angels left-hander Tyler Skaggs (8-8, 3.78), who is expected to be reinstated from the disabled list prior to the game. The left-hander has been out with a groin strain.Skaggs was last seen struggling through a poor effort at home against the A’s on Aug. 11, when he was bombed for seven runs and 10 hits in 3 1/3 innings in a 7-0 loss.He served up a pair of home runs to Marcus Semien that day, as well as Khris Davis‘ 34th.Davis has since added nine more to match his career-high and take the major league lead with 43. He’s hit two in 13 career at-bats against Skaggs, who has gone just 2-5 with a 5.32 ERA in eight career starts against Oakland.The Angels also expect Shohei Ohtani in the lineup Tuesday after he turned his ankle on a slide into second base late in Sunday’s 4-3 win over Seattle.The same won’t be true for David Fletcher, who suffered a serious hamstring injury in the game and likely will be shut down for the rest of the season. The Cubs will be home at Sloan Park this afternoon."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Chicago Cubs recapsChicago Cubs minor leaguesChicago Cubs essaysChicago Cubs game threadsWrigley Field renovationsFull archiveLibrary Bleed Cubbie Blue Community GuidelinesCurrent time in ChicagoBCB Specials & Site InfoWinter 2019 music threadsCubs StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Cubs newsYahoo Cubs team pageYahoo Cubs reportYahoo Cubs depth chartYahoo Cubs transactionsYahoo Cubs photosOdds Shop About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub 鉁旵hicago Cubs spring trainingChicago Cubs game previewsCubs vs. Royals at Mesa preview, Wednesday 3/6, 2:05 CTNew,30commentsThe Cubs will be home at Sloan Park this afternoon.CSTShareTweetShareShareCubs vs. Royals at Mesa preview, Wednesday 3/6, 2:05 CTRick Scuteri-USA TODAY SportsMESA, Arizona — Anthony Rizzo wants to be a lifetime Cub:I wrote here in November 2017 that I hoped the Cubs would extend Rizzo. Currently http://www.yankeesfanproshop.com/authentic-giancarlo-stanton-jersey , his deal officially expires at the end of this season, though the Cubs have two team-friendly option years for 2020 and 2021 that they will almost certainly exercise.Or, they could tear those up and just extend him beginning in 2020. I hope so. He’s the “Mr. Cub” of this generation. I want him to retire as a Cub.Here are today’s particulars.Cubs lineup:Royals lineup:Hey, look! There’s our old buddy Jorge Soler. And Bubba Starling... fifth overall pick in the first round in 2011, still hanging around. And... Billy Hamilton, Cub nemesis. At least whatever he does today doesn’t matter. (And no, that’s not Emilio Bonifacio. It’s Jorge Bonifacio.)Jose Quintana will start for the Cubs. Cubs relievers on today’s schedule: Pedro Strop, Steve Cishek, Brad Brach, Tyler Chatwood and Mike Zagurski.This will be the first spring outing for both Strop and Brach.Heath Fillmyer will go for the Royals. Other Royals pitchers scheduled today: Michael Ynoa, Conner Greene, Josh Staumont, Drew Storen Roger Maris Jersey , Andres Machado and Jake Newberry.Today’s game is on cubs.com. No TV today.MLB.com GamedayPlease note that during spring training, Gameday doesn’t usually go pitch-by-pitch as it does during the regular season -- usually, it will update after each at-bat.Here is the complete MLB.com Mediacenter for today.Please visit our SB Nation Royals site Royals Review. If you do go there to interact with Royals fans, please be respectful, abide by their individual site rules and serve as a good representation of Cub fans in general and BCB in particular.For spring-training games, we’ll have a first-pitch thread at five minutes to game time and one overflow thread, 90 minutes after game time (because I know how you all like overflow threads!). For today, that will be 2 p.m. CT and 3:30 p.m. CT.These threads will not post individually onto the front page; instead, you can find links to them in the box marked ”Chicago Cubs Game Threads” at the bottom of the front page. There will also be a StoryStream on the front page with all the game thread links, as well as the recap after the game is over. The pitcher boxes and regular-season stats will return on Opening Day.Discuss amongst yourselves.