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Game Preview: OAK @ NYY, 7:05pm, Friday, July 18, 2008 @Yankee Stadium II

Oakland Athletics, 51-44, 2nd, 6 GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: Greg Smith (24, LHP, 5-7, 3.43)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (5-7)            110.1  91  45  42  47  74 10    3.43      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         2-3  42    33  16  15  23  21  4    3.21   53 
 2008-07-10    SEA  ND   6     4   0   0   1   2  0      89   65 
 2008-07-05   @CHW   L   5     5   4   4   6   2  2     103   37 
 2008-06-30   @LAA   W   9     4   1   1   2   3  1     101   76 
 2008-06-25    PHI   L   5.2   7   4   4   2   3  0      98   40 
 2008-06-19   @ARI  ND   5     3   1   1   3   4  0      87   58 
 2008-06-13   @SFG   W   5     3   1   1   6   4  0      98   55 
 2008-06-07    LAA   L   6.1   7   5   4   3   3  1      97   41 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.NYY    Has never faced NYY.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   31-24   Road:   20-20   ExtrInn: 7-2 
 vsRHP:  34-28   vsLHP:  17-16   1-Run:  14-13
 vsEast: 13-9    vsCntrl:15-9    vsWest: 13-18 IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 95 Sun, Jul 13   LAA  L   3-4       51-44  2nd  6.0 gb
 94 Sat, Jul 12   LAA  L   1-4       51-43  2nd  5.0 gb
 93 Fri, Jul 11   LAA  W   9-2       51-42  2nd  4.0 gb
 92 Thu, Jul 10   SEA  W   3-2 (11)  50-42  2nd  5.0 gb
 91 Wed, Jul  9   SEA  L   4-6       49-42  2nd  5.0 gb
 90 Tue, Jul  8   SEA  W   2-0       49-41  2nd  5.0 gb
 89 Mon, Jul  7   SEA  W   4-3       48-41  2nd  6.0 gb
 88 Sun, Jul  6  @CHW  L   3-4       47-41  2nd  6.0 gb
 87 Sat, Jul  5  @CHW  L   1-6       47-40  2nd  5.0 gb
 86 Fri, Jul  4  @CHW  W   7-1       47-39  2nd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14
New York Yankees, 50-45, 3rd, 6 GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Mike Mussina (39, RHP, 11-6, 3.61)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (11-6)           107.1 116  52  43  16  68 12    3.61      
 2007 (11-10)          152   188  90  87  35  91 14    5.15      
 2006 (15-7)           197.1 184  88  77  35 172 22    3.51      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-2  46    46  14  14   6  35  3    2.74   58 
 2008-07-10   @PIT  ND   6     9   2   2   0   5  0      98   51 
 2008-07-05    BOS   W   6     4   0   0   1   5  0      88   68 
 2008-06-30    TEX   L   6     5   2   2   2   8  0     103   60 
 2008-06-20    CIN   L   8    10   4   4   2   4  1     108   48 
 2008-06-14   @HOU   W   6     6   3   3   0   4  1      89   52 
 2008-06-09    KCR  ND   8     7   2   2   0   3  1      89   63 
 2008-06-04    TOR   W   6     5   1   1   1   6  0     103   63 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.OAK      3-1  37    26  10   9   7  28  3    2.19   65 
 2007-06-29    OAK   W   7     6   1   1   1   3  0      84   63 
 2006-06-10    OAK   L   7     5   4   3   1   7  1     112   59 
 2006-04-04   @OAK  ND   7     5   3   3   2   6  2     102   59 
 2005-05-13   @OAK   W   7     6   2   2   1   9  0     114   65 
 2005-05-07    OAK   W   9     4   0   0   2   3  0     131   80 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   27-22   Road:   23-23   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  35-30   vsLHP:  15-15   1-Run:  17-11
 vsEast: 20-19   vsCntrl:11-15   vsWest:  9-3  IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 95 Sun, Jul 13  @TOR  L   1-4       50-45  3rd  6.0 gb
 94 Sat, Jul 12  @TOR  W   9-4       50-44  3rd  5.5 gb
 93 Fri, Jul 11  @TOR  L   0-5       49-44  3rd  6.5 gb
 92 Thu, Jul 10  @PIT  L   2-4       49-43  3rd  6.5 gb
 91 Wed, Jul  9   TBR  W   2-1 (10)  49-42  3rd  6.5 gb
 90 Tue, Jul  8   TBR  W   5-0       48-42  3rd  7.5 gb
 89 Sun, Jul  6   BOS  W   5-4 (10)  47-42  3rd  9.0 gb
 88 Sat, Jul  5   BOS  W   2-1       46-42  3rd  9.0 gb
 87 Fri, Jul  4   BOS  L   4-6       45-42  3rd  9.0 gb
 86 Thu, Jul  3   BOS  L   0-7       45-41  3rd  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:17-13
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 12, 2008 NYY  4 @OAK  1        W:Andy Pettitte (6-5), L: Joe Blanton (3-9), S: Mariano Rivera (18)
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 OAK  8  NYY  4        W:Justin Duchscherer (6-4), L: Darrell Rasner (3-4), S: none
Tue, Jun 10, 2008 NYY  3 @OAK  1        W:Chien-Ming Wang (7-2), L: Dana Eveland (4-5), S: Mariano Rivera (17)

Sun, Jul 01, 2007 OAK 11 @NYY  5        W:Danny Haren (10-2), L: Andy Pettitte (4-6), S: none
Sat, Jun 30, 2007 OAK  7 @NYY  0        W:Chad Gaudin (7-3), L: Kei Igawa (2-2), S: none
Fri, Jun 29, 2007 NYY  2  OAK  1        W:Mike Mussina (4-5), L: Joe Kennedy (2-6), S: Mariano Rivera (11)
Sun, Apr 15, 2007 OAK  5  NYY  4        W:Jay Marshall (1-0), L: Mariano Rivera (1-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 14, 2007 NYY  4 @OAK  3 (13)   W:Brian Bruney (1-1), L: Lenny DiNardo (0-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 13, 2007 OAK  5  NYY  4 (11)   W:Huston Street (2-1), L: Brian Bruney (0-1), S: none
Sun, Jun 11, 2006 OAK  6 @NYY  5        W:Barry Zito (7-3), L: Kyle Farnsworth (2-4), S: Huston Street (14)
Season Series: 2008 - NYY leads 2-1; 2007 - OAK won 4-2; 2006 - OAK won 6-3; All-Time - NYY leads 1102-756

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  5.60

CLE  4.53

WSN  3.65

RA/G

OAK  3.63

MIL  4.49

TEX  5.82

BA

C. Jones  .376

M. Kemp  .284

T. Pena  .155

OBP

C. Jones  .472

N. McLouth  .356

T. Pena  .176

SLG

L. Berkman  .653

B. Phillips  .472

O. Vizquel  .179

OPS

L. Berkman  1.096

O. Hudson  .816

T. Pena  .381

ERA

J. Duchscherer  1.82

J. Maine  3.99

M. Hendrickson  6.09

K/9IP

C. Billingsley  9.91

T. Wakefield  6.18

K. Rogers  3.36

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Oakland Athletics Batters (4.32 RS/G) vs. New York Yankees Pitchers (4.34 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Mussina
G/S/vB
48.Farnsworth
G/S/vB
38.Giese
G/S/vB
22.Hawkins
G/S/vB
36.Ramirez
G/S/vB
42.Rivera
G/S/vB
30.Robertson
G/S/vB
61.Traber*
G/S/vB
41.Veras
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 326/240 .224/.328/.310/.639 .855/.559 .588 60/.541 0/1 3/
18.Bowen# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 52/34 .204/.250/.286/.536 .686/.456 .530 16/.454 0/0 0/
8.Brown G/S/vP 9/.958 8/1.071 ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 308/202 .255/.292/.383/.675 .733/.644 .607 58/.853 4/1 7/
32.Cust* G/S/vP 6/.334 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.666 ··· ··· 1/no AB 364/252 .229/.374/.442/.815 .724/.857 .723 97/.672 0/0 18/
38.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 116/66 .207/.233/.279/.512 .533/.496 .425 41/.500 15/4 1/
14.Ellis G/S/vP 16/.563 2/.500 ··· 6/1.000 ··· 8/.393 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 380/269 .238/.332/.384/.716 .536/.788 .893 99/.527 12/2 9/
28.Gonzalez* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 151/106 .274/.293/.432/.725 .568/.791 .809 81/.784 3/0 2/
22.Hannahan* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 313/235 .226/.322/.338/.660 .630/.669 .648 79/.629 2/0 4/
12.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 107/58 .181/.271/.309/.580 .518/.631 .586 46/.569 2/1 3/
26.Murton G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 55/36 .212/.255/.250/.505 .433/.542 .610 35/.530 0/0 0/
2.Petit G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 25/13 .348/.400/.435/.835 .871/.801 1.292 6/1.100 0/0 0/
24.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 346/256 .281/.336/.372/.708 .612/.742 .615 82/.829 2/2 4/
15.Sweeney* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 231/182 .301/.354/.408/.761 .649/.791 .843 63/.730 7/1 3/
IP 107.1 41.0 23.1 37.1 33.0 42.1 8.0 12.0 31.1 TOTAL .249/.323/.376/.699 .666/.713 .702 .667 50/15 70/52
ERA-K/9 3.61/5.7 3.51/8.1 2.70/6.2 5.79/4.6 2.73/9.8 1.06/10.6 2.25/10.1 6.00/6.0 2.87/8.3 4.13/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Bowen (6-5-1)
 Suzuki (38-21-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 446/.278 170/.262 95/.195 157/.275 133/.179 154/.158 32/.214 55/.277 128/.209 .262  Brown
 Gonzalez
 Cust
 Davis
 Sweeney
 Murton
 Murphy
46/1/45/5
0/32/24/4
60/0/0/2
3/57/1/2
11/42/35/1
13/0/2/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .736 .845 .528 .737 .594 .416 .531 .829 .614 .726
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 209/.551 79/.993 56/.533 69/.964 72/.641 79/.325 20/.461 32/1.180 65/.708 .707
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 237/.896 91/.731 39/.520 88/.571 61/.540 75/.512 12/.667 23/.399 63/.524 .743
Home 277/.763 89/.891 86/.523 80/.728 81/.642 85/.486 16/.464 24/.467 71/.589 .710
Last 28d days 109/.714 30/.392 66/.524 36/.846 38/.406 36/.596 32/.531 16/.846 43/.738
HR/SB/CS 12/7/4 10/5/6 1/5/1 3/1/2 3/1/3 2/3/0 0/2/0 2/3/1 4/3/1 84/72/39
Usage ·······X ·····X·· ····X··· ·····X·· ·····o·· ········ ····X··X ······X· ·····o·X
New York Yankees Batters (4.59 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (3.63 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Smith*
G/S/vB
13.Blevins*
G/S/vB
51.Braden*
G/S/vB
59.Brown
G/S/vB
41.Embree*
G/S/vB
44.Casilla
G/S/vB
20.Street
G/S/vB
31.Ziegler
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Abreu* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 20/.450 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 397/280 .274/.345/.436/.781 .795/.775 .797 94/.769 12/6 10/
14.Betemit# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 112/77 .243/.268/.411/.679 .669/.684 .722 46/.579 0/1 4/
28.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 359/238 .241/.301/.347/.648 .575/.690 .656 84/.525 7/1 8/
24.Cano* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 4/.500 ··· 4/.000 1/.000 370/259 .246/.285/.358/.643 .787/.582 .704 84/.787 1/3 6/
17.Christian G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 20/5 .222/.300/.278/.578 .785/.000 .000 20/.578 2/0 0/
11.Gardner* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 44/40 .167/.262/.167/.429 .000/.464 .336 44/.429 5/0 0/
25.Giambi* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 27/.352 ··· 2/.000 ··· 324/220 .253/.386/.529/.915 .903/.920 .977 78/.750 2/1 19/
2.Jeter G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 9/.777 ··· 8/.125 ··· 391/270 .284/.345/.395/.740 .766/.729 .705 95/.823 5/2 5/
19.Moeller G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 75/51 .242/.333/.364/.697 .625/.727 .566 6/.167 0/0 1/
26.Molina G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 1/no AB 1/no AB 1/.000 181/123 .226/.263/.311/.574 .532/.593 .602 39/.615 0/0 0/
20.Posada# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 19/.931 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 186/130 .272/.360/.420/.780 .727/.803 .752 77/.597 0/0 3/
13.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 11/.741 1/.000 5/.000 ··· 319/228 .312/.392/.581/.972 .938/.986 1.123 92/.800 13/1 19/
IP 110.1 4.1 14.0 31.1 35.1 27.1 42.0 20.2 TOTAL .266/.338/.413/.751 .732/.759 .769 .680 60/22 90/50
ERA-K/9 3.43/6.0 0.00/6.3 4.50/7.7 2.30/7.2 4.58/8.7 3.29/8.9 4.07/9.0 0.00/3.9 3.39/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Moeller (12-7-0)
 Molina (27-25-6)
 Posada (32-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 456/.228 16/.154 60/.283 128/.183 153/.265 114/.255 168/.230 70/.177 .235  Abreu
 Cabrera
 Gardner
 Christian
0/0/90/8
0/91/1/5
10/1/0/1
4/0/2/0
OPS .662 .404 .744 .585 .785 .724 .691 .409 .658
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 88/.515 7/.679 12/.500 65/.559 52/.766 50/.578 73/.840 25/.497 .634
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 368/.700 9/.222 48/.810 63/.600 101/.795 64/.847 95/.579 45/.358 .674
Road 253/.654 9/.365 31/.769 41/.657 60/.984 46/.761 58/.530 22/.536 .704
Last 28d days 105/.683 16/.404 3/.000 36/.667 32/1.180 41/1.101 46/.843 35/.293
HR/SB/CS 10/9/9 0/0/1 0/0/0 3/0/1 4/3/0 4/5/0 6/4/1 0/1/0 65/44/26
Usage ·······X ·······X ······o· ······o· ·······X ·····X·o ····Xo·o ····oo·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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