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Game Preview: OAK @ CLE, 7:05pm, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @Jacobs Field

Oakland Athletics, 23-16, 1st, ½ up

SP: Justin Duchscherer (30, RHP, 3-1, 2.45)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (3-1)             22    20  11   6   5  18  2    2.45      
 2007 (3-3)             16.1  18   9   9   8  13  3    4.96      
 2006 (2-1)             55.2  52  18  18   9  51  4    2.91      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         4-2  36.1  37  18  12   7  30  3    2.97   52 
 2008-05-06    BAL   W   7     4   2   2   2   4  0      85   63 
 2008-05-01   @LAA   W   5     6   6   1   1   6  2      81   46 
 2008-04-26   @SEA   L   5     6   2   2   0   2  0      73   49 
 2008-04-04    CLE   W   5     4   1   1   1   6  0      70   60 
 2003-09-20    SEA   L   4     6   3   3   1   5  0      86   42 
 2003-09-14   @TEX  ND   3.1   7   4   3   0   1  1      76   33 
 2003-09-09    ANA   W   7     4   0   0   2   6  0     102   73 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.CLE      1-0   5     4   1   1   1   6  0    1.80   60 
 2008-04-04    CLE   W   5     4   1   1   1   6  0      70   60 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   12-9    Road:   11-7    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  16-9    vsLHP:   7-7    1-Run:   7-5 
 vsEast:  7-3    vsCntrl:10-4    vsWest:  6-9  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 39 Sun, May 11  @TEX  W  12-6       23-16  1st  1.0 up
 38 Sat, May 10  @TEX  L   4-6       22-16  1st    Tied
 37 Fri, May  9  @TEX  L   0-4       22-15  1st    Tied
 36 Wed, May  7   BAL  W   6-5 (10)  22-14  1st    Tied
 35 Tue, May  6   BAL  W   4-2       21-14  2nd  1.0 gb
 34 Mon, May  5   BAL  W   2-1 (10)  20-14  2nd  1.0 gb
 33 Sun, May  4   TEX  W   3-1       19-14  2nd  1.0 gb
 32 Sat, May  3   TEX  L   3-6       18-14  2nd  1.0 gb
 31 Fri, May  2   TEX  L   3-4       18-13  1st    Tied
 30 Thu, May  1  @LAA  W  15-8       18-12  1st    Tied
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12
Cleveland Indians, 19-19, 2nd, 1½ GB, 3 GB in WC

SP: Paul Byrd (37, RHP, 1-3, 4.28)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-3)             40    43  22  19   5  15 10    4.28      
 2007 (15-8)           192.1 239 107  98  28  88 27    4.59      
 2006 (10-9)           179   232 120  97  38  88 26    4.88      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-3  40    43  22  19   5  15 10    4.28   48 
 2008-05-08   @NYY   L   6.1   8   5   5   0   0  3      81   37 
 2008-05-01    SEA  ND   7.2   4   0   0   1   4  0      87   74 
 2008-04-25    NYY   W   5.2   6   4   4   0   0  3      77   41 
 2008-04-20   @MIN  ND   7     6   1   1   0   3  1      80   64 
 2008-04-15    BOS  ND   6     6   1   0   0   6  0      78   64 
 2008-04-09   @LAA   L   3     5   6   6   2   2  3      43   25 
 2008-04-04   @OAK   L   4.1   8   5   3   2   0  0      82   29 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.OAK      3-2  29.2  42  19  17   6  12  3    5.16   41 
 2008-04-04   @OAK   L   4.1   8   5   3   2   0  0      82   29 
 2007-09-22    OAK   L   4.1   9   6   6   2   3  1      84   22 
 2007-06-28    OAK   W   7    10   3   3   0   2  1      97   47 
 2006-06-07    OAK   W   7     8   2   2   1   4  0     105   56 
 2006-05-03   @OAK   W   7     7   3   3   1   3  1      95   53 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   11-12   Road:    8-7    ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  14-14   vsLHP:   5-5    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  7-6    vsCntrl: 7-6    vsWest:  5-7  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 38 Mon, May 12   TOR  L   0-3 (10)  19-19  2nd  1.5 gb
 37 Mon, May 12   TOR  W   3-0       19-18  2nd  1.5 gb
 36 Sat, May 10   TOR  W  12-0       18-18  3rd  0.5 gb
 35 Fri, May  9   TOR  W   6-1       17-18  3rd  1.5 gb
 34 Thu, May  8  @NYY  L   3-6       16-18  3rd  1.5 gb
 33 Wed, May  7  @NYY  W   3-0       16-17  2nd  1.5 gb
 32 Tue, May  6  @NYY  W   5-3       15-17  3rd  1.5 gb
 31 Sun, May  4   KCR  L   0-2       14-17  4th  2.5 gb
 30 Sat, May  3   KCR  L   2-4       14-16  3rd  1.5 gb
 29 Thu, May  1   SEA  W   3-2 (11)  14-15  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:15-15
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Apr 13, 2008 CLE  7  OAK  1        W:Cliff Lee (2-0), L: Chad Gaudin (0-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 OAK  7 @CLE  3        W:Lenny DiNardo (1-0), L: Fausto Carmona (1-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 OAK  9 @CLE  7        W:Joe Blanton (1-2), L: C.C. Sabathia (0-2), S: Huston Street (3)
Sun, Apr 06, 2008 CLE  2 @OAK  1        W:Cliff Lee (1-0), L: Joe Blanton (0-2), S: Joe Borowski (2)
Sat, Apr 05, 2008 OAK  6  CLE  1        W:Dana Eveland (1-0), L: C.C. Sabathia (0-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 04, 2008 OAK  6  CLE  3        W:Justin Duchscherer (1-0), L: Paul Byrd (0-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 23, 2007 CLE  6  OAK  2        W:Jake Westbrook (6-9), L: Dallas Braden (1-8), S: Rafael Betancourt (2)
Sat, Sep 22, 2007 OAK  9 @CLE  3        W:Danny Haren (15-8), L: Paul Byrd (15-7), S: none
Fri, Sep 21, 2007 CLE  4  OAK  3        W:Fausto Carmona (18-8), L: Joe Blanton (14-10), S: Joe Borowski (43)
Thu, Jun 28, 2007 CLE  4  OAK  3        W:Paul Byrd (7-3), L: Ron Flores (0-2), S: Joe Borowski (22)
Season Series: 2008 - OAK leads 4-2; 2007 - CLE won 6-4; 2006 - OAK won 6-3; All-Time - CLE leads 1000-872

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

CHC  5.87

CHW  4.61

SDP  3.36

RA/G

CLE  3.71

MIN  4.49

TEX  5.58

BA

D. Pedroia  .304

  

D. Pedroia  .304

OBP

D. Pedroia  .342

  

D. Pedroia  .342

SLG

D. Pedroia  .404

  

D. Pedroia  .404

OPS

D. Pedroia  .746

  

D. Pedroia  .746

ERA

C. Lee  .67

J. Lester  4.06

B. Arroyo  7.14

K/9IP

C. Billingsley  11.16

S. Chacon  6.18

J. Garland  2.07

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Oakland Athletics Batters (4.79 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (3.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Byrd
G/S/vB
63.Betancourt
G/S/vB
58.Breslow*
G/S/vB
44.Julio
G/S/vB
30.Kobayashi
G/S/vB
50.Lewis
G/S/vB
53.Perez*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP 6/1.833 1/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 3/1.667 1/.000 3/3.000 158/114 .237/.342/.348/.690 .731/.672 .726 94/.699 0/0 2/
18.Bowen# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 16/13 .200/.250/.200/.450 .667/.397 .347 11/.473 0/0 0/
8.Brown G/S/vP 25/.630 7/.714 3/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 153/105 .283/.307/.414/.721 .822/.674 .786 108/.746 2/0 4/
7.Crosby G/S/vP 18/.889 5/.900 2/1.000 4/1.167 2/2.000 1/.000 2/2.500 166/121 .252/.319/.371/.690 .814/.646 .601 106/.646 1/1 2/
32.Cust* G/S/vP 9/.888 3/.666 2/.500 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 3/1.666 132/101 .263/.447/.434/.881 .753/.922 .955 87/1.048 0/0 4/
38.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 45/22 .190/.222/.262/.484 .401/.573 .222 30/.624 6/0 0/
14.Ellis G/S/vP 24/.816 9/1.000 3/1.167 9/1.244 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 175/120 .242/.328/.379/.707 .525/.790 .822 109/.647 5/2 3/
22.Hannahan* G/S/vP 8/.411 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 112/91 .244/.402/.372/.774 .782/.772 .781 67/.947 1/0 2/
12.Murphy G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 44/17 .205/.295/.359/.654 .515/.824 .442 32/.741 2/0 2/
24.Suzuki G/S/vP 5/1.100 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 155/107 .255/.323/.305/.628 .542/.666 .517 103/.504 1/1 1/
5.Sweeney G/S/vP 20/.806 10/.700 3/.333 6/2.000 2/.000 1/3.000 3/1.334 97/52 .322/.381/.448/.830 .785/.865 .871 46/.937 0/0 2/
15.Sweeney* G/S/vP 6/1.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 98/87 .262/.330/.333/.663 .586/.672 .635 74/.594 3/0 0/
35.Thomas G/S/vP 23/.480 7/.000 1/no AB 5/.650 ··· ··· ··· 141/105 .216/.348/.345/.692 .553/.742 .705 89/.646 0/0 3/
IP 40.0 15.2 8.0 13.1 17.1 21.1 16.1 TOTAL .254/.340/.366/.706 .644/.734 .719 .716 19/4 22/28
ERA-K/9 4.28/3.4 6.89/8.0 2.25/7.9 3.38/6.8 2.08/5.2 2.95/6.3 3.86/7.7 3.49/6.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Bowen (0-0-0)
 Suzuki (15-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 166/.272 70/.328 38/.273 54/.213 71/.261 93/.253 71/.281 .256  Brown
 Murphy
 Cust
 Sweeney
 Davis
22/1/24/4
1/0/0/0
24/0/0/0
0/30/9/0
3/17/1/0
OPS .789 .900 .671 .655 .644 .743 .758 .705
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 99/.998 36/.564 10/.733 25/.789 31/.756 43/.747 33/.544 .728
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 67/.486 34/1.238 28/.649 29/.545 40/.558 50/.740 38/.938 .689
Home 72/.602 45/.973 29/.725 28/.851 51/.621 72/.780 30/.741 .719
Last 28d days 123/.703 38/.795 21/.850 26/.619 50/.627 62/.815 51/.695
HR/SB/CS 10/0/2 4/3/0 0/2/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 2/0/0 2/0/2 36/12/9
Usage ····X··· X····XX· ··X····· ····o··· ···Xo··· ···X··X· ·····oX·
Cleveland Indians Batters (4.32 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (3.72 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 58.Duchscherer
G/S/vB
59.Brown
G/S/vB
33.Devine
G/S/vB
41.Embree*
G/S/vB
29.Foulke
G/S/vB
44.Casilla
G/S/vB
20.Street
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Blake G/S/vP 5/1.400 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 4/.500 2/.000 3/.000 123/99 .227/.303/.364/.667 .393/.732 .488 81/.808 1/0 2/
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 123/94 .190/.289/.267/.556 .351/.628 .467 73/.598 0/1 1/
7.Carroll G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 67/45 .185/.323/.222/.545 .664/.479 .661 54/.500 3/0 0/
20.Dellucci* G/S/vP 8/.875 1/2.000 2/no AB 5/1.200 6/.900 1/no AB 5/.200 103/100 .253/.330/.429/.759 .333/.768 .667 71/.729 1/0 4/
12.Francisco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 28/23 .280/.321/.400/.721 .400/.798 .450 28/.721 0/2 0/
25.Garko G/S/vP 3/1.000 3/1.667 1/no AB 3/1.167 1/5.000 3/1.667 3/.000 138/110 .231/.341/.333/.674 .986/.600 .721 84/.520 0/0 2/
38.Gutierrez G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 125/93 .252/.295/.365/.660 .750/.629 .799 84/.736 3/1 2/
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 5/1.400 1/.000 ··· 8/1.375 9/.722 4/.000 4/2.000 149/112 .214/.318/.349/.667 .753/.638 .684 91/.582 0/1 3/
15.Marte G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 26/23 .091/.167/.091/.258 .667/.190 .000 20/.217 0/0 0/
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 4/1.250 1/.000 ··· 10/1.389 6/1.166 2/2.000 4/.000 120/85 .342/.383/.405/.789 1.017/.679 .814 93/.815 0/0 0/
2.Peralta G/S/vP 5/1.200 2/.000 1/.000 4/.833 3/1.667 5/.000 5/.000 132/105 .208/.267/.383/.651 .836/.599 .448 82/.548 1/0 6/
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 57/40 .235/.304/.333/.637 .375/.750 .725 33/.506 0/0 1/
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 6/.533 3/no AB ··· 7/.629 4/1.167 1/.000 4/.500 165/118 .273/.382/.468/.849 .683/.913 .995 103/.859 7/2 6/
16.Tyner* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 5/1.000 1/.000 ··· 3/3 .000/.333/.000/.333 /.333 .333 3/.333 0/0 0/
IP 22.0 18.0 15.0 17.1 8.0 19.1 16.1 TOTAL .237/.318/.357/.675 .681/.673 .667 .670 17/8 27/17
ERA-K/9 2.45/7.4 2.00/7.0 0.60/10.2 2.60/8.3 4.50/9.0 0.47/10.3 3.86/9.9 3.29/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martinez (12-8-0)
 Shoppach (0-1-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 87/.244 73/.194 59/.196 67/.200 35/.250 72/.172 68/.213 .240  Gutierrez
 Francisco
 Carroll
 Tyner
 Dellucci
 Sizemore
1/3/32/1
4/0/5/1
1/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
29/0/0/0
0/36/0/0
OPS .642 .566 .452 .635 .721 .443 .726 .653
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 45/.559 35/.613 23/.399 23/.776 13/.490 34/.358 31/1.009 .619
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 42/.725 38/.516 36/.485 44/.561 22/.842 38/.523 37/.508 .676
Road 42/.797 31/.450 35/.617 28/.821 15/1.005 33/.640 28/.298 .696
Last 28d days 68/.654 42/.598 44/.368 32/.326 7/1.238 44/.341 33/.565
HR/SB/CS 2/1/0 1/0/1 0/1/0 2/0/0 1/0/0 0/4/0 3/1/0 24/15/9
Usage ······X· ·····X·o ·X···X·o ·Xo···oo ··X····· ·Xo···X· ·o·····X

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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