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Game Preview: CLE @ OAK, 4:05pm, Saturday, April 5, 2008 @McAfee Coliseum

Cleveland Indians, 2-2, 2nd, 1 GB, tied for WC

SP: C.C. Sabathia (27, LHP, 0-0, 8.44)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (0-0)              5.1   6   5   5   3   7  2    8.44      
 2007 (19-7)           241   238  94  86  37 209 20    3.21      
 2006 (12-11)          192.2 182  83  69  44 172 17    3.22      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         5-0  49.1  44  17  17  11  42  3    3.10   59 
 2008-03-31    CHW  ND   5.1   6   5   5   3   7  2     100   40 
 2007-09-28    KCR   W   7     8   3   3   1   4  1      96   52 
 2007-09-19    DET   W   7     5   2   2   1   7  0     109   65 
 2007-09-14    KCR  ND   7     7   4   4   2  13  0     115   58 
 2007-09-08    LAA   W   9     5   1   1   1   3  0     103   75 
 2007-09-03    MIN   W   8     6   0   0   1   6  0     100   75 
 2007-08-29    MIN   W   6     7   2   2   2   2  0     109   50 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.OAK      1-4  29.1  37  24  21  11  25  3    6.44   42 
 2007-06-25    OAK   W   9     9   2   2   0   8  0     111   69 
 2007-05-11    OAK   L   6.2   9   6   6   1   5  2     101   36 
 2006-09-21    OAK   L   5.1   7   7   4   3   5  0     117   34 
 2005-09-12    OAK   L   6     4   1   1   5   7  0      99   62 
 2005-07-25    OAK   L   2.1   8   8   8   2   0  1      70    7 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    2-1    Road:    0-1    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   1-1    vsLHP:   1-1    1-Run:   0-1 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest:  0-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  4 Fri, Apr  4  @OAK  L   3-6        2-2   2nd  1.0 gb
  3 Thu, Apr  3   CHW  L   1-2        2-1   2nd  1.5 gb
  2 Wed, Apr  2   CHW  W   7-2        2-0   2nd  1.0 gb
  1 Mon, Mar 31   CHW  W  10-8        1-0   2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 2-2    Last 20: 2-2    Last 30: 2-2 
Oakland Athletics, 2-3, 2nd, 1 GB, tied for WC

SP: Dana Eveland (24, LHP, 0-0, undef)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (1-0)              5     8   8   8   5   3  0   14.40      
 2006 (0-3)             27.2  39  25  25  16  32  4    8.13      
 2005 (1-1)             31.2  40  21  21  18  23  2    5.97      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         0-3  27    39  28  28  15  28  4    9.33   35 
 2007-09-01    COL  ND   2.2   5   5   5   2   2  0      59   28 
 2006-06-02    WSN   L   4     6   5   5   3   5  0      98   32 
 2006-05-28    PHI   L   5     6   4   4   1   4  1      91   42 
 2006-05-23    CIN   L   4.2   8   4   4   2   7  1      92   37 
 2006-05-18    PHI  ND   5     7   4   4   4   6  1     104   39 
 2006-05-13    NYM  ND   5.2   7   6   6   3   4  1     101   32 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.CLE    Has never faced CLE.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    2-3    Road:    0-0    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   1-2    vsLHP:   1-1    1-Run:   0-2 
 vsEast:  1-3    vsCntrl: 1-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  5 Fri, Apr  4   CLE  W   6-3        2-3   2nd  1.0 gb
  4 Wed, Apr  2   BOS  L   0-5        1-3   2nd  0.5 gb
  3 Tue, Apr  1   BOS  L   1-2        1-2   1st    Tied
  2 Wed, Mar 26   BOS  W   5-1        1-1   1st    Tied
  1 Tue, Mar 25   BOS  L   5-6 (10)   0-1   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 2-3    Last 20: 2-3    Last 30: 2-3 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
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 , L: Dallas Braden , S: Rafael Betancourt 
Sat, Sep 22, 2007 OAK  9 @CLE  3        W:Danny Haren , L: Paul Byrd , S: none
Fri, Sep 21, 2007 CLE  4  OAK  3        W:Fausto Carmona , L: Joe Blanton , S: Joe Borowski 
Thu, Jun 28, 2007 CLE  4  OAK  3        W:Paul Byrd , L: Ron Flores , S: Joe Borowski 
Wed, Jun 27, 2007 OAK 13 @CLE  7        W:Lenny DiNardo , L: Fausto Carmona , S: none
Tue, Jun 26, 2007 CLE  8  OAK  5        W:Rafael Betancourt , L: Alan Embree , S: none
Mon, Jun 25, 2007 CLE  5  OAK  2        W:C.C. Sabathia , L: Chad Gaudin , S: none
Sun, May 13, 2007 OAK 10  CLE  7        W:Jay Witasick , L: Joe Borowski , S: none
Sat, May 12, 2007 CLE  6 @OAK  3        W:Fausto Carmona , L: Dallas Braden , S: Joe Borowski 
Season Series: 2008 - OAK leads 1-0; 2007 - CLE won 6-4; 2006 - OAK won 6-3; All-Time - CLE leads 998-869

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

BA

M. Ordonez  .363

J. Pierre  .293

J. LaRue  .148

OBP

B. Bonds  .480

G. Atkins  .367

J. LaRue  .240

SLG

C. Ross  .653

R. Ludwick  .479

A. Gonzalez  .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez  1.067

T. Glaus  .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.

Cleveland Indians Batters (5.25 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (3.40 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Eveland*
G/S/vB
59.Brown
G/S/vB
25.DiNardo*
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Blake G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.333 2/.000 4/.500 2/.000 2/.000 662/473 .270/.339/.437/.776 .827/.757 .846 / 4/5 18/14
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 186/136 .283/.354/.421/.775 .950/.702 .826 / 0/0 3/1
7.Carroll G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 268/150 .225/.317/.300/.616 .705/.543 .739 / 6/2 2/4
20.Dellucci* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 5/1.200 5/.800 1/no AB 4/.250 199/173 .230/.296/.382/.679 .481/.709 .743 / 2/1 4/0
25.Garko G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/1.334 3/1.167 1/5.000 2/1.000 3/.000 541/378 .289/.359/.483/.842 .914/.812 .828 / 0/1 21/8
38.Gutierrez G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 301/198 .266/.318/.472/.790 .920/.722 .625 / 8/3 13/1
48.Hafner* G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.453 7/1.572 8/.821 4/.000 4/2.000 661/420 .266/.385/.451/.837 .837/.836 .883 / 1/1 24/0
15.Marte G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 60/41 .193/.233/.316/.549 .594/.528 .490 / 0/0 1/4
41.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.286 10/1.389 6/1.166 2/2.000 4/.000 645/414 .301/.374/.505/.879 .825/.908 .886 / 0/0 25/5
8.Michaels G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 4/1.500 5/2.133 ··· 4/.000 2/.000 295/139 .270/.324/.397/.721 .800/.636 .661 / 3/4 7/1
2.Peralta G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/2.667 4/.833 2/2.500 4/.000 5/.000 647/482 .270/.341/.430/.771 .820/.754 .659 / 4/4 21/19
10.Shoppach G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 177/136 .261/.310/.472/.782 1.126/.687 .742 / 0/0 7/4
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 5/1.100 6/.750 4/1.167 1/.000 3/.666 748/503 .277/.390/.462/.852 .812/.872 .802 / 33/10 24/2
IP 5.0 41.2 131.1 68.0 50.2 50.0 TOTAL /// / / /2
ERA-K/9 14.40/5.4 4.54/9.3 4.11/4.0 3.97/6.8 /0.0 4.44/9.2 2.88/11.3 0.00/0.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martinez (70-33-6)
 Shoppach (23-13-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 28/.364 178/.245 555/.278 284/.258 / 219/.224 199/.190  Sizemore
 Michaels
 Gutierrez
 Dellucci
 Blake
 Carroll
0/160/0/4
74/1/27/4
9/8/88/3
51/0/0/3
0/0/7/2
0/1/2/0
OPS .964 .691 .750 .681 .676 .543
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 10/1.367 75/.667 116/.835 80/.581 / 79/.695 97/.702
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 18/.771 103/.709 439/.727 204/.720 / 140/.665 102/.400
Home 20/1.147 93/.665 306/.681 141/.575 / 102/.516 99/.505
Last 28d days / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 0/1/0 1/3/0 13/3/3 5/4/1 // 6/9/0 5/5/2 //
Usage ··o····· ··X····· o·X····· X··X···· X·oX···· X·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.

Oakland Athletics Batters (3.40 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (4.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Sabathia*
G/S/vB
63.Betancourt
G/S/vB
47.Borowski
G/S/vB
58.Breslow*
G/S/vB
44.Julio
G/S/vB
30.Kobayashi
G/S/vB
31.Lee*
G/S/vB
50.Lewis
G/S/vB
53.Perez*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/3.000 84/50 .347/.429/.639/1.067 1.034/1.087 .860 / 1/0 4/0
18.Bowen# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 188/132 .231/.344/.372/.716 .774/.690 .488 / 1/2 4/5
8.Brown G/S/vP 42/.820 7/.714 4/.833 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 27/.713 1/2.000 1/.000 397/237 .257/.300/.347/.647 .823/.529 .639 / 12/2 6/6
6.Buck* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 334/260 .288/.377/.474/.850 1.005/.805 .784 / 4/1 7/0
7.Crosby G/S/vP 14/.940 5/.900 3/.666 ··· 4/1.167 ··· 12/.650 ··· 1/.000 374/268 .226/.278/.341/.619 .647/.608 .649 / 10/2 8/14
32.Cust* G/S/vP 7/1.262 3/.666 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 7/1.429 ··· 2/2.500 507/344 .256/.408/.504/.912 .786/.971 1.047 / 0/2 26/4
19.Denorfia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
14.Ellis G/S/vP 21/.405 6/1.167 ··· 2/2.000 8/1.175 ··· 8/1.333 1/.000 ··· 642/470 .276/.336/.441/.777 .984/.704 .743 / 9/4 19/5
22.Hannahan* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 169/130 .278/.369/.424/.793 1.050/.712 .805 / 1/0 3/3
11.Johnson* G/S/vP 10/1.378 4/1.500 2/2.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 8/.542 ··· 2/.000 495/316 .236/.349/.418/.768 .783/.758 .737 / 0/0 18/4
12.Murphy G/S/vP 6/1.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.000 ··· 1/.000 132/85 .220/.290/.441/.731 .968/.595 .660 / 1/0 6/5
24.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 248/187 .249/.327/.408/.735 .623/.772 .713 / 0/0 7/2
5.Sweeney G/S/vP 70/.690 10/.700 4/.500 1/.000 6/2.000 ··· 26/.911 ··· 2/1.000 289/198 .260/.315/.404/.719 .822/.672 .686 / 0/0 7/1
15.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 49/43 .200/.265/.333/.599 .500/.612 .516 / 0/1 1/0
IP 241.0 79.1 65.2 62.0 97.1 29.1 60.2 TOTAL /// / / /2
ERA-K/9 3.21/7.8 1.47/9.1 5.07/7.9 /0.0 5.23/8.1 /0.0 6.29/6.1 2.15/10.4 1.78/9.2 0.00/0.0

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 975/.259 289/.183 292/.289 / 280/.283 / 443/.284 125/.234 236/.187  Brown
 Buck
 Sweeney
 Cust
78/0/21/8
18/5/65/3
11/3/0/1
14/0/48/1
OPS .684 .485 .768 .813 .841 .616 .531
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 213/.545 113/.617 152/.742 / 115/.624 / 117/.917 47/.548 92/.450
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 762/.723 176/.400 140/.798 / 165/.942 / 326/.813 78/.656 144/.580
Road 425/.731 153/.487 159/.825 / 144/.928 / 218/.852 60/.496 116/.498
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 20/10/10 4/4/4 9/9/2 // 8/12/2 // 17/4/1 1/0/1 5/2/1 //
Usage ····X··· ····X··· ····X··· X······· X·X····· ··X····· ·X··X··· ··X·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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