TBR @ OAK, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Game Preview

Tampa Bay Rays, 27-19, 2nd, 1 GB, 3½ up in WC	SP: Andy Sonnanstine (25, RHP, 6-1, 4.53) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (6-1) 57.2 63 29 29 11 30 6 4.53 2007 (6-10) 130.2 151 87 85 26 97 18 5.85 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 5-0 45.2 50 21 21 9 23 4 4.14 50 2008-05-16 @STL W 8 8 1 1 0 4 1 98 66 2008-05-11 LAA ND 5 8 5 5 2 3 0 86 32 2008-05-06 @TOR W 6 10 4 4 1 2 0 87 37 2008-04-30 @BAL W 8 6 1 1 2 5 0 102 69 2008-04-24 TOR W 6.1 6 3 3 2 3 0 104 50 2008-04-19 CHW W 9 3 0 0 1 4 0 106 84 2008-04-14 NYY ND 3.1 9 7 7 1 2 3 62 15 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.OAK 1-0 5 5 2 2 2 7 0 3.60 54 2007-08-26 OAK W 5 5 2 2 2 7 0 96 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 16-8 Road: 11-11 ExtrInn: 4-1 vsRHP: 20-13 vsLHP: 7-6 1-Run: 6-7 vsEast: 18-12 vsCntrl: 2-3 vsWest: 6-2 IL: 1-2 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 46 Tue, May 20 @OAK W 3-2 27-19 2nd 1.0 gb 45 Mon, May 19 @OAK W 7-6 (13) 26-19 2nd 1.0 gb 44 Sun, May 18 @STL L 4-5 25-19 2nd 1.0 gb 43 Sat, May 17 @STL L 8-9 (10) 25-18 1st Tied 42 Fri, May 16 @STL W 3-1 25-17 1st 1.5 up 41 Thu, May 15 NYY W 5-2 24-17 1st 1.0 up 40 Wed, May 14 NYY L 1-2 23-17 1st 0.5 up 39 Tue, May 13 NYY W 2-1 (11) 23-16 1st 0.5 up 38 Mon, May 12 NYY W 7-1 22-16 2nd 0.5 gb 37 Sun, May 11 LAA W 8-5 21-16 2nd 1.5 gb Last 10: 7-3 Last 20:13-7 Last 30:20-10
Oakland Athletics, 24-23, 2nd, 3 GB, 3½ GB in WC	SP: Dana Eveland (24, LHP, 3-3, 3.23) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (3-3) 53 45 20 19 23 39 2 3.23 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 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-3 39.2 36 19 18 19 26 2 4.08 50 2008-05-16 @ATL ND 5.2 6 2 2 3 4 0 97 50 2008-05-10 @TEX L 6 6 3 3 2 5 1 88 51 2008-05-05 BAL ND 7 3 0 0 4 4 0 90 71 2008-04-30 @LAA L 5.1 7 6 6 2 5 0 96 33 2008-04-25 @SEA W 5.1 6 3 3 1 3 0 98 46 2008-04-20 KCR W 5.2 3 1 1 4 3 0 95 58 2008-04-15 @CHW L 4.2 5 4 3 3 2 1 87 39 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.TBR Has never faced TBR.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 12-11 Road: 12-12 ExtrInn: 3-2 vsRHP: 17-12 vsLHP: 7-11 1-Run: 8-8 vsEast: 7-5 vsCntrl:10-7 vsWest: 6-9 IL: 1-2 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 47 Tue, May 20 TBR L 2-3 24-23 2nd 3.0 gb 46 Mon, May 19 TBR L 6-7 (13) 24-22 2nd 2.0 gb 45 Sun, May 18 @ATL L 2-5 24-21 2nd 1.5 gb 44 Sat, May 17 @ATL W 5-4 24-20 2nd 0.5 gb 43 Fri, May 16 @ATL L 2-3 23-20 2nd 1.5 gb 42 Thu, May 15 @CLE L 2-4 23-19 2nd 0.5 gb 41 Wed, May 14 @CLE L 0-2 23-18 2nd 0.5 gb 40 Tue, May 13 @CLE L 0-4 23-17 2nd 0.5 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 Last 10: 2-8 Last 20: 7-13 Last 30:15-15
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Tue, May 20, 2008 TBR 3 @OAK 2 W:Scott Kazmir (3-1), L: Greg Smith (2-4), S: Troy Percival (13) Mon, May 19, 2008 TBR 7 @OAK 6 (13) W:Jason Hammel (3-2), L: Chad Gaudin (3-3), S: Troy Percival (12) Sun, Aug 26, 2007 TBD 7 OAK 4 W:Andy Sonnanstine (3-9), L: Danny Haren (14-5), S: Al Reyes (20) Sat, Aug 25, 2007 TBD 14 OAK 3 W:Scott Kazmir (10-8), L: Joe Blanton (11-9), S: none Fri, Aug 24, 2007 TBD 12 OAK 2 W:James Shields (10-8), L: Lenny DiNardo (8-7), S: none Thu, Aug 23, 2007 OAK 12 @TBD 2 W:Chad Gaudin (10-9), L: Jason Hammel (1-4), S: none Sun, May 06, 2007 OAK 5 @TBD 3 W:Joe Blanton (3-1), L: Edwin Jackson (0-5), S: Huston Street (9) Sat, May 05, 2007 TBD 3 OAK 2 (12) W:Ruddy Lugo (2-0), L: Jay Marshall (1-2), S: none Fri, May 04, 2007 OAK 5 @TBD 2 W:Justin Duchscherer (3-1), L: Gary Glover (0-2), S: Huston Street (8) Sun, Apr 29, 2007 TBD 5 @OAK 3 W:Scott Kazmir (2-1), L: Dallas Braden (1-1), S: Al Reyes (9) Season Series: 2008 - TBR leads 2-0; 2007 - TBR won 6-4; 2006 - OAK won 6-3; All-Time - OAK leads 63-33

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 5.74

DET 4.53

SDP 3.30

RA/G

CLE 3.58

MIN 4.47

TEX 5.57

C. Jones .409

R. Howard .183

OBP

A. Pujols .486

K. Greene .270

SLG

L. Berkman .776

O. Cabrera .292

OPS

L. Berkman 1.244

O. Cabrera .569

ERA

E. Volquez 1.33

J. Blanton 3.87

K. Rogers 6.65

K/9IP

E. Volquez 10.28

P. Maholm 6.37

J. Garland 2.01

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Tampa Bay Rays Batters (4.59 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (3.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 30.Eveland*
G/S/vB 55.Blanton
G/S/vB 51.Braden*
G/S/vB 33.Devine
G/S/vB 25.DiNardo*
G/S/vB 58.Duchscherer
G/S/vB 41.Embree*
G/S/vB 29.Foulke
G/S/vB 57.Gaudin
G/S/vB 40.Harden
G/S/vB 23.Smith*
G/S/vB 20.Street
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

8.Bartlett G/S/vP ··· 14/.286 1/.000 1/no AB 4/1.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 8/.929 2/1.000 4/.500 1/.000 163/118 .250/.288/.289/.577 .840/.477 .682 94/.652 5/3 0/

13.Crawford* G/S/vP ··· 25/.788 4/.500 1/.000 8/.833 8/.393 13/.231 10/.500 6/1.100 15/1.133 4/.500 10/.200 214/150 .276/.308/.387/.695 .694/.696 .608 124/.733 12/3 4/

15.Floyd* G/S/vP 1/no AB 6/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.833 6/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 42/42 .308/.357/.513/.870 /.870 .891 25/.653 0/0 2/

31.Gomes G/S/vP ··· 6/1.333 ··· ··· 7/1.286 ··· 3/.666 2/1.500 3/.000 ··· 3/.666 3/.000 90/46 .218/.311/.397/.709 .731/.685 .703 38/.439 5/1 3/

26.Gross* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/2.500 3/1.667 6/.900 ··· 5/.200 ··· 1/2.000 113/107 .217/.345/.337/.682 .000/.725 .629 59/.727 2/1 2/

32.Hinske* G/S/vP ··· 17/.647 ··· 1/.000 4/.750 7/.715 12/.969 12/.633 4/.500 16/1.089 3/.000 5/.000 143/107 .254/.343/.532/.874 .476/1.005 1.007 84/.676 3/1 8/

1.Iwamura* G/S/vP ··· 6/1.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 207/151 .274/.335/.376/.711 .584/.758 .649 119/.846 2/2 3/

3.Longoria G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/5.000 ··· 3/1.167 1/.000 146/109 .246/.329/.437/.765 .470/.859 .674 107/.737 3/0 5/

30.Navarro# G/S/vP ··· 6/.334 ··· 1/3.000 3/2.667 3/1.000 3/.333 1/.000 7/.929 ··· 3/.333 1/2.000 104/79 .365/.408/.458/.866 .749/.930 .832 91/.846 0/2 1/

23.Pena* G/S/vP ··· 9/1.381 ··· 1/no AB 4/1.167 6/.533 6/2.167 7/.000 7/.821 8/.572 3/.000 3/1.666 192/129 .211/.313/.392/.704 .859/.634 .665 110/.634 0/0 9/

9.Riggans G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/32 .250/.302/.458/.760 .571/.877 .935 12/1.017 0/0 3/

2.Upton G/S/vP ··· 13/.930 2/2.500 2/.500 3/1.167 6/.334 2/2.000 1/.000 7/.715 3/1.666 3/1.667 5/.000 193/140 .293/.380/.421/.801 .822/.793 .860 108/.758 11/5 3/

18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/4.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 11/7 .300/.364/.500/.864 .500/1.095 1.000 11/.864 1/0 0/

IP 53.0 74.1 10.1 19.1 7.2 33.2 21.1 11.1 43.0 21.2 56.2 20.1 TOTAL .262/.330/.400/.730 .692/.744 .730 .720 46/21 44/21

ERA-K/9

3.23/6.6

3.87/4.1

3.48/9.6

1.40/12.1

10.57/5.8

2.67/6.9

4.22/8.5

3.18/9.6

3.56/6.7

2.91/11.6

3.18/7.3

4.43/10.6

3.42/7.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Navarro (12-6-0)
Riggans (10-0-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 221/.234 315/.279 42/.256 78/.183 44/.395 136/.250 87/.241 49/.227 177/.248 93/.235 229/.221 83/.213 .241 Upton
Gross
Crawford
Hinske
Gomes 0/44/0/4
2/14/23/3
46/0/0/1
0/0/19/1
1/0/4/0

OPS .651 .732 .643 .482 .898 .642 .717 .670 .669 .667 .640 .708 .663

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 44/.810 166/.619 10/.600 33/.539 12/.955 77/.625 31/.803 23/.366 98/.620 55/.704 60/.393 40/1.026 .629

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 177/.611 149/.859 32/.657 45/.440 32/.876 59/.663 56/.668 26/.906 79/.730 38/.613 169/.732 43/.434 .688

Home 75/.492 228/.729 11/.282 34/.435 22/1.166 45/.488 42/.471 26/.522 85/.624 45/.574 100/.670 46/.870 .622

Last 28d days 123/.694 137/.743 42/.643 49/.532 / 117/.650 48/.566 21/.770 105/.659 48/.750 157/.640 42/.548

HR/SB/CS 2/2/2 6/0/1 0/0/0 0/3/0 0/2/0 2/1/0 2/0/0 1/2/0 5/1/2 1/1/0 5/4/7 3/1/0 30/22/13

Usage ····X··· ·X····X· X······· XX··Xo·· ········ ··X····X ·oX·X··X ·X·o··o· ·XX··X·· ···X···· X····X·· ·X·X·o··

Oakland Athletics Batters (4.38 RS/G) vs. Tampa Bay Rays Pitchers (4.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 21.Sonnanstine
G/S/vB 22.Garza
G/S/vB 47.Glover
G/S/vB 49.Hammel
G/S/vB 39.Howell*
G/S/vB 36.Jackson
G/S/vB 19.Kazmir*
G/S/vB 57.Miller*
G/S/vB 40.Percival
G/S/vB 28.Reyes
G/S/vB 33.Shields
G/S/vB 35.Wheeler
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 182/134 .221/.335/.331/.666 .696/.654 .684 86/.549 0/0 2/

18.Bowen# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 24/17 .217/.250/.304/.554 .571/.548 .500 15/.486 0/0 0/

8.Brown G/S/vP ··· 6/1.667 2/1.000 4/1.750 3/.666 2/1.000 17/1.009 ··· 4/2.750 2/.500 9/.555 ··· 187/126 .254/.283/.384/.668 .711/.647 .696 115/.612 2/0 5/

7.Crosby G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 3/.333 17/.502 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 7/.714 3/.000 201/143 .257/.323/.383/.706 .833/.656 .702 110/.604 2/2 3/

32.Cust* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/5.000 2/5.000 ··· 3/.333 6/.733 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 8/.708 3/1.334 165/120 .246/.424/.413/.837 .702/.891 .846 93/1.015 0/0 5/

38.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 62/27 .186/.210/.237/.447 .377/.539 .626 43/.573 7/1 0/

14.Ellis G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.000 4/1.417 2/1.000 2/.500 3/.333 20/.988 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 10/.600 2/1.500 175/120 .242/.328/.379/.707 .525/.790 .597 78/.673 5/2 3/

22.Hannahan* G/S/vP 2/1.500 ··· ··· 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 5/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 7/.143 2/1.000 146/110 .231/.370/.333/.703 .661/.718 .681 79/.786 1/0 2/

2.Petit G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 12/6 .364/.417/.455/.871 .900/.833 .500 12/.871 0/0 0/

24.Suzuki G/S/vP 2/2.500 ··· 1/5.000 3/.333 1/no AB ··· 6/.567 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 179/124 .238/.298/.287/.584 .538/.605 .719 103/.467 1/1 1/

5.Sweeney G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 13/1.083 4/.250 4/.750 ··· 13/.808 ··· 16/.580 3/.666 3/.000 3/1.000 116/60 .302/.353/.415/.769 .735/.798 .699 56/.821 0/0 2/

15.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 4/1.000 ··· 118/105 .294/.359/.392/.751 .657/.762 .697 68/.795 3/0 1/

35.Thomas G/S/vP 9/.777 3/1.000 7/.715 3/1.000 5/2.550 12/.973 17/.371 1/no AB 15/1.400 5/.000 13/1.621 4/.500 162/116 .237/.358/.415/.773 .575/.856 .847 90/.880 0/0 6/

IP 57.2 37.0 13.2 33.1 29.2 54.2 23.0 14.1 19.0 8.0 66.2 24.1 TOTAL .249/.332/.362/.694 .624/.728 .694 .691 21/6 29/31

ERA-K/9

4.53/4.7

4.86/3.6

3.95/5.3

4.59/5.1

2.73/7.6

3.29/6.7

1.57/8.6

4.40/8.2

2.84/8.5

5.63/6.8

3.38/6.6

2.22/6.7

3.69/6.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Bowen (2-1-0)
Suzuki (20-12-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 238/.283 162/.285 65/.278 148/.275 121/.202 230/.240 94/.193 60/.255 71/.134 34/.241 273/.241 94/.153 .242 Brown
Cust
Davis
Sweeney 25/1/32/4
32/0/0/1
3/24/1/1
0/35/12/0

OPS .761 .754 .724 .796 .583 .666 .542 .670 .511 .703 .651 .553 .683

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 107/.701 75/.764 30/.747 74/.990 42/.464 113/.762 21/.293 30/.516 42/.449 12/1.144 148/.664 36/.323 .687

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 131/.810 87/.745 35/.705 74/.604 79/.643 117/.576 73/.617 30/.818 29/.600 22/.439 125/.636 58/.686 .680

Road 111/.741 98/.796 12/.523 95/.848 67/.586 105/.729 47/.631 28/1.084 29/.831 19/.654 131/.882 55/.656 .769

Last 28d days 138/.735 123/.688 26/.895 68/.882 76/.557 132/.681 94/.542 33/.721 52/.647 11/.182 144/.569 59/.675

HR/SB/CS 6/0/2 4/0/0 0/0/0 3/5/0 2/1/0 3/3/1 0/3/0 0/0/2 3/2/0 1/1/0 5/6/2 4/0/0 36/26/8

Usage ····X··· ···X···· ·oXo·X·· ·X······ ·XoX···X ··X····X X····X·· ··oo·oX· XX··oo·X ··XX··o· ·X····X· o·oo·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: TBR @ OAK, 3:35pm, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @McAfee Coliseum

SP: Andy Sonnanstine (25, RHP, 6-1, 4.53)

SP: Dana Eveland (24, LHP, 3-3, 3.23)

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