OAK @ ARI, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Game Preview

Oakland Athletics, 39-31, 2nd, 3 GB, 2 GB in WC	SP: Joe Blanton (27, RHP, 3-9, 4.23) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. ARI Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (3-9) 100 111 51 47 25 46 10 4.23 2007 (14-10) 230 240 106 101 40 140 16 3.95 2006 (16-12) 194.1 241 111 104 58 107 17 4.82 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 1-4 44.1 46 24 23 15 24 7 4.67 48 2008-06-12 NYY L 6.2 6 4 4 3 2 1 118 45 2008-06-06 LAA L 7 7 3 2 1 3 1 105 55 2008-05-31 @TEX L 6 10 6 6 1 0 1 95 27 2008-05-25 BOS W 6 5 3 3 4 7 1 107 53 2008-05-19 TBR ND 6 6 4 4 1 5 1 100 48 2008-05-14 @CLE L 7 4 2 2 2 4 2 101 63 2008-05-07 BAL ND 5.2 8 2 2 3 3 0 101 45 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.ARI Has never faced ARI.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 22-17 Road: 17-14 ExtrInn: 5-2 vsRHP: 27-19 vsLHP: 12-12 1-Run: 10-9 vsEast: 13-9 vsCntrl:13-7 vsWest: 8-13 IL: 5-2 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 70 Tue, Jun 17 @ARI W 15-1 39-31 2nd 3.0 gb 69 Sun, Jun 15 @SFG W 5-3 38-31 2nd 3.5 gb 68 Sat, Jun 14 @SFG W 4-0 37-31 2nd 3.5 gb 67 Fri, Jun 13 @SFG W 5-1 36-31 2nd 4.5 gb 66 Thu, Jun 12 NYY L 1-4 35-31 2nd 5.5 gb 65 Wed, Jun 11 NYY W 8-4 35-30 2nd 5.0 gb 64 Tue, Jun 10 NYY L 1-3 34-30 2nd 5.0 gb 63 Sun, Jun 8 LAA W 7-3 (12) 34-29 2nd 4.5 gb 62 Sat, Jun 7 LAA L 3-5 33-29 2nd 5.5 gb 61 Fri, Jun 6 LAA L 1-3 33-28 2nd 4.5 gb Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:12-8 Last 30:16-14
Arizona Diamondbacks, 37-34, 1st, 4½ up	SP: Danny Haren (27, RHP, 6-4, 3.41) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (6-4) 89.2 77 37 34 15 76 10 3.41 2007 (15-9) 222.2 214 91 76 55 192 24 3.07 2006 (14-13) 223 224 109 102 45 176 31 4.12 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-3 46.1 42 19 19 7 40 6 3.69 57 2008-06-12 @NYM ND 6 5 2 2 0 5 1 100 59 2008-06-07 @PIT ND 7 5 3 3 1 6 2 93 60 2008-06-01 WSN W 7 4 0 0 3 5 0 106 71 2008-05-27 SFG L 6 9 5 5 1 7 2 97 40 2008-05-22 @FLA L 6.1 8 4 4 0 8 0 94 49 2008-05-16 DET W 7 6 3 3 0 4 1 104 57 2008-05-09 @CHC L 7 5 2 2 2 5 0 110 62 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.OAK Has never faced OAK.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 22-15 Road: 15-19 ExtrInn: 3-2 vsRHP: 22-22 vsLHP: 15-12 1-Run: 9-9 vsEast: 9-11 vsCntrl: 5-11 vsWest: 20-8 IL: 3-4 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 71 Tue, Jun 17 OAK L 1-15 37-34 1st 4.5 up 70 Sun, Jun 15 KCR L 3-8 37-33 1st 5.5 up 69 Sat, Jun 14 KCR L 3-12 37-32 1st 5.5 up 68 Fri, Jun 13 KCR W 1-0 (10) 37-31 1st 5.5 up 67 Thu, Jun 12 @NYM W 5-4 (10) 36-31 1st 4.5 up 66 Wed, Jun 11 @NYM L 3-5 (13) 35-31 1st 3.5 up 65 Tue, Jun 10 @NYM W 9-5 35-30 1st 3.5 up 64 Mon, Jun 9 @PIT L 3-5 34-30 1st 3.5 up 63 Sun, Jun 8 @PIT L 4-6 34-29 1st 4.0 up 62 Sat, Jun 7 @PIT W 4-3 34-28 1st 4.0 up Last 10: 4-6 Last 20: 7-13 Last 30:11-19
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Tue, Jun 17, 2008 OAK 15 @ARI 1 W:Justin Duchscherer (7-4), L: Brandon Webb (11-3), S: none Sun, Jul 02, 2006 ARI 3 @OAK 1 W:Brandon Webb (9-3), L: Barry Zito (8-5), S: none Sat, Jul 01, 2006 ARI 7 @OAK 2 W:Miguel Batista (8-5), L: Esteban Loaiza (3-5), S: none Fri, Jun 30, 2006 ARI 6 @OAK 4 W:Claudio Vargas (7-4), L: Brad Halsey (3-3), S: Jorge Julio (7) Sun, Jul 08, 2001 OAK 2 @ARI 1 W:Barry Zito (6-6), L: Curt Schilling (12-4), S: Jason Isringhausen (17) Sat, Jul 07, 2001 OAK 5 @ARI 1 W:Tim Hudson (9-5), L: Miguel Batista (4-5), S: none Fri, Jul 06, 2001 OAK 3 @ARI 0 W:Mark Mulder (9-6), L: Brian Anderson (2-4), S: none Sun, Jul 09, 2000 ARI 4 @OAK 2 W:Randy Johnson (14-2), L: Gil Heredia (9-7), S: Matt Mantei (4) Sat, Jul 08, 2000 OAK 8 ARI 7 (10) W:Jason Isringhausen (4-2), L: Greg Swindell (1-2), S: none Fri, Jul 07, 2000 OAK 5 ARI 4 (11) W:Jeff Tam (3-2), L: Omar Daal (2-10), S: none Season Series: 2008 - OAK leads 1-0; 2007 - 0-0; 2006 - ARI won 3-0; All-Time - OAK leads 10-6

Key for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids on the next pageKey for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids Below

Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.

PA - Plate Appearances (AB+BB+HBP+SH+SF+CI)
BF - Batters Faced
BA - Batting Average
OBP - On-Base Percentage
SLG - Slugging Percentage
Last 28d - PA and OPS in the last 28 days.
SB/CS - Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing
HR/E - Home Runs and Errors Made
ERA-K/9 - Earned Run Average and SO per 9 IP
Total - Team totals for those categories.
Usage - See the note below the grid. OPS - On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (a good single number for measuring a player's hitting, avg. is .750 or so)
RA/G & RS/G - Runs scored and allowed per game.
PA/vRH - Plate Appearances overall/PA's vs. Right-handed Pitchers
Catcher Def. - Catcher Defense with each catcher's Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, and Passed Balls allowed.
G/S/vB or G/S/vP - Links to the player's 2008 gamelogs, splits, or career batter vs. pitcher results
vLH/vRH - OPS vs. left-handed pitchers and vs. right-handed pitchers
Hm or Rd, Home or Road - OPS or OPS allowed in home or road games.
OF G: LF / CF / RF - A - Outfielders with the games played by position and their total number of assists
vs LHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against left-handed batters
vs RHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against right-handed batters
HR/SB/CS - Pitcher's Home Runs, Stolen Bases and Caught Stealings allowed

MLB Best, Middle, Worst

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

TEX 5.57

CLE 4.54

WSN 3.71

RA/G

OAK 3.61

BAL 4.60

TEX 5.82

C. Jones .400

V. Martinez .278

A. Cabrera .184

OBP

C. Jones .493

J. Votto .349

C. Patterson .229

SLG

L. Berkman .697

C. Guzman .444

A. Cabrera .247

OPS

L. Berkman 1.139

B. Abreu .799

A. Cabrera .529

ERA

E. Volquez 1.64

R. Wolf 4.16

B. Bonser 6.45

K/9IP

E. Volquez 10.74

R. Nolasco 6.13

L. Hernandez 2.71

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Oakland Athletics Batters (4.60 RS/G) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks Pitchers (4.49 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 15.Haren
G/S/vB 37.Cruz
G/S/vB 31.Gonzalez
G/S/vB 38.Lyon
G/S/vB 56.Pena
G/S/vB 50.Qualls
G/S/vB 47.Rosales
G/S/vB 45.Slaten*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 263/194 .225/.336/.333/.669 .820/.614 .632 81/.676 0/1 3/

18.Bowen# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 3/1.666 ··· ··· 1/2.000 32/21 .258/.281/.323/.604 .727/.538 .583 8/.750 0/0 0/

8.Brown G/S/vP 11/.788 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.667 ··· ··· 246/168 .242/.280/.364/.644 .685/.625 .591 59/.567 3/0 5/

3.Chavez* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 64/48 .300/.344/.483/.827 .842/.822 .867 64/.827 0/0 2/

7.Crosby G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 303/221 .262/.317/.387/.704 .762/.683 .693 102/.700 5/3 4/

32.Cust* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 259/186 .256/.417/.462/.879 .761/.925 .787 94/.952 0/0 11/

38.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 3/.666 2/.000 ··· 1/5.000 74/38 .211/.230/.296/.526 .509/.541 .455 12/.917 11/2 1/

14.Ellis G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/5.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 273/193 .265/.349/.445/.795 .545/.892 .982 98/.952 6/2 8/

28.Gonzalez* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 65/45 .246/.281/.377/.658 .474/.740 .745 65/.658 1/0 0/

22.Hannahan* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 229/173 .226/.335/.337/.672 .646/.680 .726 83/.614 1/0 3/

2.Petit G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/11 .353/.389/.412/.801 .762/.818 1.750 6/.667 0/0 0/

24.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.500 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 260/190 .264/.332/.332/.664 .532/.712 .617 81/.844 2/2 2/

15.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 160/138 .307/.367/.421/.789 .725/.798 .855 42/.890 5/0 2/

IP 89.2 26.0 47.0 28.2 32.2 33.0 1.2 22.2 TOTAL .255/.334/.384/.718 .652/.745 .729 .765 34/10 52/42

ERA-K/9

3.41/7.6

2.77/13.2

6.13/5.6

2.51/6.6

3.03/6.9

2.45/9.3

5.40/10.6

4.37/5.2

3.96/7.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Bowen (4-1-0)
Suzuki (29-19-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 359/.229 108/.165 218/.307 119/.255 135/.234 138/.193 11/.444 100/.233 .249 Brown
Gonzalez
Cust
Davis
Sweeney 35/1/40/5
0/16/9/2
50/0/0/2
3/40/1/1
4/41/21/0

OPS .646 .621 .886 .688 .630 .551 1.101 .760 .707

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 169/.576 50/.603 101/.810 53/.604 61/.682 66/.455 4/1.750 38/.502 .694

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 190/.708 58/.632 117/.947 66/.749 74/.588 72/.642 7/.857 62/.926 .716

Home 207/.592 48/.729 116/.962 58/.663 73/.660 69/.591 11/1.101 52/.774 .736

Last 28d days 133/.749 30/.507 75/.809 39/.910 46/.464 38/.483 11/1.101 42/.937

HR/SB/CS 10/4/0 2/4/3 8/2/1 4/1/1 1/1/0 2/1/0 0/0/0 3/0/0 64/42/11

Usage ·····X·· ··oo··Xo X··X·XX· X····X·o X···o·Xo ····o·Xo ··X····· X·o··X·o

Arizona Diamondbacks Batters (4.66 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (3.61 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 55.Blanton
G/S/vB 59.Brown
G/S/vB 50.Calero
G/S/vB 41.Embree*
G/S/vB 29.Foulke
G/S/vB 57.Gaudin
G/S/vB 20.Street
G/S/vB 31.Ziegler
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

2.Burke G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/.667 ··· ··· 117/55 .172/.282/.202/.484 .393/.588 .583 45/.419 3/0 0/

6.Drew* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 273/186 .262/.303/.460/.763 .753/.766 .760 107/.627 2/1 9/

1.Hudson# G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· 1/2.000 14/.428 11/.637 4/1.167 1/.000 ··· 266/169 .292/.360/.479/.839 .793/.866 .909 109/.819 2/1 7/

34.Jackson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 249/162 .305/.398/.502/.900 1.050/.824 .894 81/.886 4/0 7/

26.Montero* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 75/53 .258/.333/.348/.682 .714/.669 .844 31/.448 0/0 0/

11.Ojeda# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 87/55 .324/.414/.392/.806 .784/.817 .921 29/.705 0/0 0/

27.Reynolds G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 268/178 .257/.336/.506/.842 .968/.781 .923 93/1.064 5/0 15/

28.Romero* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 33/19 .233/.226/.300/.526 .167/.760 .563 21/.500 0/0 0/

12.Salazar* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 98/90 .232/.351/.378/.729 .500/.751 .674 47/.591 0/2 2/

19.Snyder G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 201/136 .246/.335/.462/.797 .731/.829 .825 75/.688 0/0 7/

18.Tracy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 51/45 .213/.275/.426/.700 .000/.799 .940 51/.700 0/0 3/

10.Upton G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 270/184 .244/.359/.427/.786 .916/.726 .986 89/.535 1/2 8/

24.Young G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 321/215 .229/.305/.420/.725 .926/.629 .689 117/.558 4/1 12/

IP 100.0 23.0 2.2 28.0 23.0 54.2 31.1 8.0 TOTAL .247/.326/.419/.744 .782/.726 .797 .671 25/10 77/51

ERA-K/9

4.23/4.1

1.96/7.4

6.75/13.3

3.86/9.0

2.74/6.7

3.46/6.6

3.16/10.1

0.00/2.2

3.31/7.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Montero (10-1-0)
Snyder (26-9-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 427/.278 92/.177 12/.111 118/.240 97/.224 227/.258 122/.198 26/.182 .235 Upton
Young
Salazar
Burke
Jackson
Romero 0/0/66/6
0/69/0/2
19/2/8/2
11/0/1/1
4/0/0/0
6/1/1/0

OPS .744 .553 .556 .697 .667 .670 .635 .413 .651

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 228/.656 47/.515 4/1.750 40/.651 47/.591 121/.621 57/.858 9/.583 .621

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 199/.845 45/.579 8/.125 78/.721 50/.738 106/.727 65/.448 17/.319 .672

Road 115/.808 37/.583 5/.200 50/.893 41/.774 118/.737 52/.554 4/1.000 .694

Last 28d days 112/.777 16/.125 12/.556 31/.627 48/.664 50/.674 39/.481 26/.413

HR/SB/CS 10/0/1 2/0/1 0/0/0 2/1/0 2/3/0 5/1/3 4/2/1 0/1/0 44/33/20

Usage ·····X·· o····Xo· ······o· ···o··oo ··oXo··X ··X·X··X ··oXo··· ···o·o··

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches thrown by the pitcher for yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, ...., up to eight days ago:
· - did not pitch; o - less than 16 pitches; X - at least 16 pitches (the median relief outing)
An Example ( ·X···o·X ): Yesterday off, 16 or more pitches, three days off, less than 16 pitches, day off, 16 or more pitches (8 days ago). Yesterday is in bold for improved scanning.

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Game Preview: OAK @ ARI, 9:40pm, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 @Chase Field

SP: Joe Blanton (27, RHP, 3-9, 4.23)

SP: Danny Haren (27, RHP, 6-4, 3.41)

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