OAK @ CHW, Monday, April 14, 2008 Game Preview

Oakland Athletics, 8-5, 1st, 1½ up	SP: Greg Smith (24, LHP, 0-0, 3.00) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-0) 6 2 3 2 5 5 0 3.00 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 0-0 6 2 3 2 5 5 0 3.00 58 2008-04-09 TOR ND 6 2 3 2 5 5 0 103 58 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CHW Has never faced CHW.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 3-4 Road: 5-1 ExtrInn: 1-1 vsRHP: 5-2 vsLHP: 3-3 1-Run: 2-3 vsEast: 4-3 vsCntrl: 4-2 vsWest: 0-0 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 13 Sun, Apr 13 @CLE L 1-7 8-5 1st 1.5 up 12 Sat, Apr 12 @CLE W 7-3 8-4 1st 2.0 up 11 Fri, Apr 11 @CLE W 9-7 7-4 1st 1.5 up 10 Thu, Apr 10 @TOR W 3-2 (12) 6-4 1st Tied 9 Wed, Apr 9 @TOR W 6-3 5-4 1st Tied 8 Tue, Apr 8 @TOR W 9-8 4-4 1st Tied 7 Sun, Apr 6 CLE L 1-2 3-4 1st Tied 6 Sat, Apr 5 CLE W 6-1 3-3 1st Tied 5 Fri, Apr 4 CLE W 6-3 2-3 1st Tied 4 Wed, Apr 2 BOS L 0-5 1-3 1st Tied Last 10: 7-3 Last 20: 8-5 Last 30: 8-5
Chicago White Sox, 7-4, 2nd, ½ GB, ½ GB in WC	SP: Mark Buehrle (29, LHP, 1-0, 8.31) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (1-0) 8.2 14 9 8 3 2 2 8.31 2007 (10-9) 201 208 86 81 45 115 22 3.63 2006 (12-13) 204 247 124 113 48 98 36 4.99 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-1 41 51 27 25 12 19 5 5.49 43 2008-04-06 DET W 7 7 2 1 2 1 0 89 56 2008-03-31 CLE ND 1.2 7 7 7 1 1 2 48 13 2007-09-21 MIN W 6 9 4 4 3 3 0 97 38 2007-09-16 LAA ND 6.1 11 7 6 2 3 2 106 26 2007-09-06 DET ND 7 7 1 1 1 4 1 105 62 2007-08-31 CLE ND 7 4 2 2 0 4 0 98 65 2007-08-25 BOS L 6 6 4 4 3 3 0 99 44 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.OAK 1-3 34.1 37 19 12 12 14 2 3.15 49 2007-08-15 OAK L 7 7 3 3 3 4 1 112 52 2007-04-11 OAK ND 7 4 3 3 2 1 0 113 56 2006-05-24 OAK W 7 6 1 0 3 3 0 112 63 2005-07-09 OAK L 7 6 5 2 2 3 1 112 52 2005-07-03 OAK L 6.1 14 7 4 2 3 0 110 24
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 3-2 Road: 4-2 ExtrInn: 0-0 vsRHP: 4-2 vsLHP: 3-2 1-Run: 1-0 vsEast: 0-0 vsCntrl: 7-4 vsWest: 0-0 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 11 Sun, Apr 13 DET W 11-0 7-4 2nd 0.5 gb 10 Sat, Apr 12 DET W 7-0 6-4 2nd 0.5 gb 9 Fri, Apr 11 DET L 2-5 5-4 2nd 0.5 gb 8 Wed, Apr 9 MIN L 5-12 5-3 2nd 0.5 gb 7 Mon, Apr 7 MIN W 7-4 5-2 3rd 0.5 gb 6 Sun, Apr 6 @DET W 13-2 4-2 5th 0.5 gb 5 Sat, Apr 5 @DET W 5-3 3-2 5th 0.5 gb 4 Fri, Apr 4 @DET W 8-5 2-2 5th 0.5 gb 3 Thu, Apr 3 @CLE W 2-1 1-2 5th 0.5 gb 2 Wed, Apr 2 @CLE L 2-7 0-2 5th 1.0 gb Last 10: 7-3 Last 20: 7-4 Last 30: 7-4
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Thu, Aug 16, 2007 OAK 8 CHW 5 (10) W:Ruddy Lugo , L: Matt Thornton , S: none Wed, Aug 15, 2007 OAK 3 CHW 2 W:Joe Blanton , L: Mark Buehrle , S: Huston Street Tue, Aug 14, 2007 OAK 4 CHW 3 W:Lenny DiNardo , L: Jon Garland , S: Alan Embree Wed, May 23, 2007 OAK 4 @CHW 0 W:Chad Gaudin , L: Jon Garland , S: none Tue, May 22, 2007 CHW 10 OAK 4 W:John Danks , L: Colby Lewis , S: none Mon, May 21, 2007 CHW 8 OAK 5 W:Jose Contreras , L: Joe Blanton , S: Bobby Jenks Wed, Apr 11, 2007 CHW 6 @OAK 3 W:David Aardsma , L: Huston Street , S: Bobby Jenks Tue, Apr 10, 2007 OAK 2 CHW 1 W:Huston Street , L: Bobby Jenks , S: none Mon, Apr 09, 2007 CHW 4 @OAK 1 W:Jose Contreras , L: Rich Harden , S: none Sun, Sep 17, 2006 OAK 5 CHW 4 W:Joe Blanton (16-11), L: Jose Contreras (13-8), S: Justin Duchscherer (9) Season Series: 2008 - 0-0; 2007 - OAK won 5-4; 2006 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - CHW leads 1003-946

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

For the 2007 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

NYY 5.98

BAL 4.67

WSN 4.15

RA/G

BOS 4.06

KCR 4.80

TBD 5.83

M. Ordonez .363

J. Francoeur .293

J. LaRue .148

OBP

B. Bonds .480

J. Varitek .367

J. LaRue .240

SLG

C. Ross .653

T. Tulowitzki .479

A. Gonzalez .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez 1.067

G. Sheffield .839

J. LaRue .512

ERA

J. Peavy 2.54

A. Pettitte 4.05

S. Olsen 5.81

K/9IP

E. Bedard 10.93

G. Meche 6.50

A. Cook 3.31

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Oakland Athletics Batters (4.54 RS/G) vs. Chicago White Sox Pitchers (4.45 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 56.Buehrle*
G/S/vB 26.Dotel
G/S/vB 45.Jenks
G/S/vB 71.Linebrink
G/S/vB 57.Logan*
G/S/vB 47.MacDougal
G/S/vB 46.Masset
G/S/vB 37.Thornton*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 84/50 .347/.429/.639/1.067 1.034/1.087 1.333 / 1/0 4/0

18.Bowen# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 188/132 .231/.344/.372/.716 .774/.690 .867 / 1/2 4/5

8.Brown G/S/vP 36/1.260 2/.500 7/.286 1/.000 2/.000 7/1.547 ··· 4/.250 397/237 .257/.300/.347/.647 .823/.529 .652 / 12/2 6/6

6.Buck* G/S/vP 4/1.250 ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 334/260 .288/.377/.474/.850 1.005/.805 .946 / 4/1 7/0

7.Crosby G/S/vP 16/.333 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 4/2.250 374/268 .226/.278/.341/.619 .647/.608 .588 / 10/2 8/14

32.Cust* G/S/vP 4/.250 ··· 1/no AB ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/.333 507/344 .256/.408/.504/.912 .786/.971 .779 / 0/2 26/4

19.Denorfia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

14.Ellis G/S/vP 31/.361 ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 7/.453 ··· 2/2.000 642/470 .276/.336/.441/.777 .984/.704 .806 / 9/4 19/5

22.Hannahan* G/S/vP 3/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 169/130 .278/.369/.424/.793 1.050/.712 .779 / 1/0 3/3

12.Murphy G/S/vP 9/.889 ··· 2/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 132/85 .220/.290/.441/.731 .968/.595 .770 / 1/0 6/5

24.Suzuki G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/5.000 248/187 .249/.327/.408/.735 .623/.772 .755 / 0/0 7/2

5.Sweeney G/S/vP 74/1.046 3/.666 8/.875 ··· 2/.000 3/.666 1/2.000 4/.750 289/198 .260/.315/.404/.719 .822/.672 .757 / 0/0 7/1

15.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 49/43 .200/.265/.333/.599 .500/.612 .656 / 0/1 1/0

IP 201.0 30.2 65.0 70.1 50.2 42.1 39.1 56.1 TOTAL .239/.329/.359/.688 .669/.701 .744 .688 3/1 6/10

ERA-K/9

3.63/5.1

4.11/12.0

2.77/7.8

3.71/6.4

4.97/6.2

6.80/8.3

7.09/4.8

4.79/8.8

4.36/6.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Bowen (34-5-3)
Suzuki (29-7-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 835/.269 138/.242 249/.198 295/.253 226/.298 208/.291 193/.323 249/.269 .260 Brown
Buck
Sweeney
Cust 78/0/21/8
18/5/65/3
11/3/0/1
14/0/48/1

OPS .728 .748 .488 .742 .802 .839 .851 .783 .693

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 166/.861 58/.756 108/.541 136/.706 99/.587 57/.910 79/.844 104/.800 .882

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 669/.695 80/.740 141/.449 159/.773 127/.968 151/.812 114/.857 145/.771 .601

Home 429/.769 84/.804 134/.472 145/.603 120/.874 102/.814 95/.906 131/.867 .658

Last 28d days / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 22/2/3 4/2/0 2/5/0 12/6/3 7/7/1 3/9/0 2/8/1 4/1/1 4/7/1

Usage ·······X ··X····· ·o····o· ·o····X· ··o····· ··X·o··X X···X··· o···X···

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Chicago White Sox Batters (6.36 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (3.85 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 23.Smith*
G/S/vB 59.Brown
G/S/vB 33.Devine
G/S/vB 25.DiNardo*
G/S/vB 41.Embree*
G/S/vB 29.Foulke
G/S/vB 44.Casilla
G/S/vB 56.Hernandez
G/S/vB 20.Street
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

32.Anderson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 19/10 .118/.211/.176/.387 .111/.633 .619 / 0/0 0/1

18.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 ··· 10/.225 5/.000 3/.666 2/.000 ··· 5/.400 701/550 .301/.345/.397/.742 .843/.715 .716 / 20/4 8/11

24.Crede G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.500 3/1.334 ··· ··· 4/.000 178/139 .216/.258/.317/.576 .514/.590 .541 / 0/1 4/4

23.Dye G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/1.400 8/.661 15/.400 2/.500 ··· 5/.000 561/413 .254/.317/.486/.804 .925/.761 .801 / 2/1 28/3

44.Hall G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 2/1.000 9/.361 ··· ··· 1/.000 120/64 .207/.225/.241/.466 .668/.297 .433 / 0/0 0/3

14.Konerko G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.833 8/1.875 4/.000 2/.500 ··· 9/1.333 636/461 .259/.351/.490/.841 .988/.784 .863 / 0/1 31/5

38.Ozuna G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 85/46 .244/.280/.282/.563 .590/.533 .686 / 3/0 0/4

12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· 6/1.267 8/.858 5/.800 1/no AB ··· 5/.200 509/393 .263/.309/.403/.712 .716/.710 .678 / 1/1 14/2

20.Quentin G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 263/187 .214/.298/.349/.647 .589/.670 .862 / 2/2 5/1

10.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

30.Swisher# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 659/457 .262/.381/.455/.836 .921/.799 .820 / 3/2 22/5

25.Thome* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 6/.900 13/.408 19/.993 1/3.000 ··· 6/.333 536/367 .275/.410/.563/.973 .663/1.123 .991 / 0/1 35/0

5.Uribe G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 4/1.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 563/412 .234/.284/.394/.678 .757/.648 .783 / 1/9 20/17

IP 41.2 8.1 131.1 68.0 50.2 50.0 TOTAL .256/.353/.461/.814 .889/.790 .743 .814 1/0 17/5

ERA-K/9

/0.0

4.54/9.3

1.08/7.6

4.11/4.0

3.97/6.8

/0.0

4.44/9.2

/0.0

2.88/11.3

3.52/7.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Hall (26-3-5)
Pierzynski (62-20-14)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / 178/.245 39/.241 555/.278 284/.258 / 219/.224 / 199/.190 .247 Dye
Swisher
Quentin
Anderson
Ozuna 0/0/135/9
0/60/57/3
3/0/75/2
5/3/0/0
7/0/0/0

OPS .691 .636 .750 .681 .676 .543 .690

vs LHB (BF-OPS) / 75/.667 13/.762 116/.835 80/.581 / 79/.695 / 97/.702 .658

vs RHB (BF-OPS) / 103/.709 26/.571 439/.727 204/.720 / 140/.665 / 102/.400 .709

Road / 85/.720 16/.542 249/.833 143/.788 / 117/.810 / 100/.581 .701

Last 28d days / / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS // 1/3/0 0/0/0 13/3/3 5/4/1 // 6/9/0 // 5/5/2 10/5/1

Usage ····X··· ·X·X·X·o ·X·X···· ·X······ ·o·X·X·o ···X·o·· ··ooX··o X·o·X··· ··X·XX··

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 @ CHW, 8:11pm, Monday, April 14, 2008 @U.S. Cellular Field

SP: Greg Smith (24, LHP, 0-0, 3.00)

SP: Mark Buehrle (29, LHP, 1-0, 8.31)

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