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Game Preview: OAK @ TOR, 7:07pm, Thursday, April 10, 2008 @Rogers Centre

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Oakland Athletics, 5-4, 1st, Tied

SP: Dana Eveland (24, LHP, 1-0, 1.29)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-0)              7     6   1   1   1   7  0    1.29      
 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         1-3  34    45  29  29  16  35  4    7.68   40 
 2008-04-05    CLE   W   7     6   1   1   1   7  0     101   67 
 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.TOR    Has never faced TOR.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    3-4    Road:    2-0    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   3-2    vsLHP:   2-2    1-Run:   1-3 
 vsEast:  3-3    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  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
  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: 5-4    Last 20: 5-4    Last 30: 5-4 
Toronto Blue Jays, 4-4, 1st, Tied

SP: Shaun Marcum (26, RHP, 1-0, 3.86)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-0)              7     3   3   3   1   8  1    3.86      
 2007 (12-6)           159   149  76  73  49 122 27    4.13      
 2006 (3-4)             78.1  87  44  44  38  65 14    5.06      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-1  35.1  41  23  23  15  25  6    5.86   44 
 2008-04-04    BOS   W   7     3   3   3   1   8  1      87   66 
 2007-09-22    NYY  ND   3     5   1   1   1   2  0      51   46 
 2007-09-16    BAL  ND   5     5   3   3   2   4  1      89   47 
 2007-09-11    NYY   L   4.1   8   8   8   4   5  2      90   16 
 2007-09-05    BOS  ND   5     5   2   2   3   2  0      89   48 
 2007-08-31    SEA   W   5     7   4   4   2   3  2      91   38 
 2007-08-25    LAA   W   6     8   2   2   2   1  0     102   47 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.OAK      0-1   7.2  14   8   8   3   8  2    9.39   34 
 2007-08-20    OAK   L   3     9   6   6   1   4  2      75   20 
 2006-07-28    OAK  ND   4.2   5   2   2   2   4  0      90   48 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    3-2    Road:    1-2    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   4-3    vsLHP:   0-1    1-Run:   0-3 
 vsEast:  4-2    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  0-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  8 Wed, Apr  9   OAK  L   3-6        4-4   1st    Tied
  7 Tue, Apr  8   OAK  L   8-9        4-3   1st    Tied
  6 Sun, Apr  6   BOS  W   7-4        4-2   1st    Tied
  5 Sat, Apr  5   BOS  W  10-2        3-2   1st    Tied
  4 Fri, Apr  4   BOS  W   6-3        2-2   1st    Tied
  3 Thu, Apr  3  @NYY  L   2-3        1-2   1st    Tied
  2 Wed, Apr  2  @NYY  W   5-2        1-1   1st    Tied
  1 Tue, Apr  1  @NYY  L   2-3        0-1   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 4-4    Last 20: 4-4    Last 30: 4-4 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Apr 09, 2008 OAK  6 @TOR  3        W:Fernando Hernandez (1-0), L: Jeremy Accardo (0-2), S: Huston Street (2)
Tue, Apr 08, 2008 OAK  9 @TOR  8        W:Alan Embree (1-1), L: Jeremy Accardo (0-1), S: Huston Street (1)

Wed, Aug 29, 2007 OAK  5  TOR  4 (11)   W:Ruddy Lugo , L: Jason Frasor , S: none
Tue, Aug 28, 2007 TOR  5 @OAK  4        W:Brian Wolfe , L: Andrew Brown , S: Casey Janssen 
Mon, Aug 27, 2007 TOR  6 @OAK  2 (12)   W:Jeremy Accardo , L: Alan Embree , S: none
Wed, Aug 22, 2007 OAK  4 @TOR  1        W:Esteban Loaiza , L: A.J. Burnett , S: Alan Embree 
Tue, Aug 21, 2007 OAK  6 @TOR  4        W:Danny Haren , L: Brian Tallet , S: Huston Street 
Mon, Aug 20, 2007 OAK  6 @TOR  4        W:Joe Blanton , L: Shaun Marcum , S: Huston Street 
Wed, Jul 04, 2007 TOR 10 @OAK  3        W:Dustin McGowan , L: Joe Kennedy , S: none
Tue, Jul 03, 2007 OAK  3  TOR  1        W:Joe Blanton , L: Jesse Litsch , S: none
Season Series: 2008 - OAK leads 2-0; 2007 - OAK won 5-4; 2006 - OAK won 6-4; All-Time - OAK leads 185-151

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. 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 (4.33 RS/G) vs. Toronto Blue Jays Pitchers (4.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 28.Marcum
G/S/vB
49.Accardo
G/S/vB
37.Downs*
G/S/vB
54.Frasor
G/S/vB
22.League
G/S/vB
56.Tallet*
G/S/vB
40.Wolfe
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· 84/50 .347/.429/.639/1.067 1.034/1.087 1.333 / 1/0 4/0
18.Bowen# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 188/132 .231/.344/.372/.716 .774/.690 .867 / 1/2 4/5
8.Brown G/S/vP 6/.533 2/.000 4/.500 4/.000 4/.250 1/.000 ··· 397/237 .257/.300/.347/.647 .823/.529 .652 / 12/2 6/6
6.Buck* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 334/260 .288/.377/.474/.850 1.005/.805 .946 / 4/1 7/0
7.Crosby G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.000 4/1.167 8/.250 1/no AB 2/1.000 2/1.500 374/268 .226/.278/.341/.619 .647/.608 .588 / 10/2 8/14
32.Cust* G/S/vP 2/1.000 3/.667 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 1/5.000 507/344 .256/.408/.504/.912 .786/.971 .779 / 0/2 26/4
19.Denorfia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
14.Ellis G/S/vP 4/1.417 4/1.750 2/.000 7/.500 4/.250 2/.000 4/.000 642/470 .276/.336/.441/.777 .984/.704 .806 / 9/4 19/5
22.Hannahan* G/S/vP 2/4.000 2/1.000 3/.666 4/.000 ··· ··· 4/.250 169/130 .278/.369/.424/.793 1.050/.712 .779 / 1/0 3/3
12.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 132/85 .220/.290/.441/.731 .968/.595 .770 / 1/0 6/5
24.Suzuki G/S/vP 2/1.000 3/1.334 2/.500 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.750 248/187 .249/.327/.408/.735 .623/.772 .755 / 0/0 7/2
5.Sweeney G/S/vP 3/.666 1/no AB 4/.833 2/1.000 3/.667 2/.500 ··· 289/198 .260/.315/.404/.719 .822/.672 .757 / 0/0 7/1
15.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· 1/4.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/.000 49/43 .200/.265/.333/.599 .500/.612 .656 / 0/1 1/0
IP 159.0 67.1 58.0 57.0 11.2 62.1 45.1 TOTAL .243/.332/.372/.704 .631/.749 .911 .704 3/1 5/5
ERA-K/9 4.13/6.9 2.14/7.6 2.17/8.8 4.58/9.3 6.17/5.4 3.47/7.8 2.98/4.4 3.99/6.4

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 660/.249 275/.206 239/.223 242/.220 58/.380 267/.215 174/.224 .256  Brown
 Buck
 Sweeney
 Cust
78/0/21/8
18/5/65/3
11/3/0/1
14/0/48/1
OPS .754 .558 .592 .631 .968 .611 .643 .747
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 357/.821 137/.419 126/.548 113/.721 27/1.190 106/.697 75/1.023 .725
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 303/.675 138/.697 113/.639 129/.556 31/.766 161/.555 99/.356 .774
Home 336/.866 127/.495 131/.525 123/.623 28/1.055 129/.481 93/.639 .784
Last 28d days / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 27/6/2 4/10/1 3/0/1 3/5/2 1/0/1 1/9/1 5/0/0 6/2/2
Usage ·····X·· XX·X·o·X X·····o· o···X··· ·X······ ·X··oo·X oX··X·o·

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

Toronto Blue Jays Batters (5.38 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (3.44 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
56.Hernandez
G/S/vB
20.Street
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
20.Barajas G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 5/1.200 147/106 .230/.352/.393/.745 .916/.685 .644 / 0/1 4/0
21.Coats* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/27 .206/.263/.324/.587 1.345/.273 .375 / 0/0 0/1
11.Eckstein G/S/vP 3/1.333 ··· ··· 5/1.000 6/.533 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 484/339 .309/.356/.382/.739 .709/.752 .816 / 10/1 3/20
2.Hill G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 12/2.450 4/1.250 6/.666 1/.000 1/.000 7/.715 657/503 .291/.333/.459/.792 .916/.753 .836 / 4/3 17/14
6.McDonald G/S/vP ··· ··· 9/.444 3/.333 8/.625 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 353/260 .251/.279/.333/.612 .818/.539 .624 / 7/2 1/9
17.Overbay* G/S/vP ··· 5/1.200 7/.000 2/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 1/no AB 3/2.667 476/361 .240/.315/.391/.706 .794/.676 .658 / 2/0 10/5
15.Rios G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 9/1.431 10/.600 7/.715 1/2.000 ··· 5/.650 711/545 .297/.354/.498/.852 1.022/.802 .842 / 17/4 24/7
19.Scutaro G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 4/1.500 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 379/282 .260/.332/.361/.693 .861/.637 .653 / 2/1 7/14
24.Stairs* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 5/1.000 11/1.031 ··· ··· 6/1.867 405/352 .289/.368/.549/.917 .818/.931 .918 / 2/1 21/6
23.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 12/1.310 1/no AB ··· 3/.000 630/444 .290/.345/.394/.739 .699/.756 .629 / 11/3 12/4
35.Thomas G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 5/1.100 6/2.000 2/5.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.000 624/480 .277/.377/.480/.857 1.062/.796 .944 / 0/0 26/
10.Wells G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 12/1.227 20/.906 17/.301 3/.333 ··· 11/.455 642/492 .245/.304/.402/.706 .835/.668 .700 / 10/4 16/3
9.Zaun# G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 6/1.000 9/1.194 11/.384 2/1.000 1/.000 7/.143 391/304 .242/.341/.411/.752 .797/.739 .856 / 0/0 10/8
IP 5.0 41.2 131.1 68.0 50.2 50.0 TOTAL .254/.340/.390/.730 .678/.737 .783 .730 8/3 8/4
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 /0.0 2.88/11.3 3.18/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Barajas (12-7-1)
 Zaun (73-13-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 28/.364 178/.245 555/.278 284/.258 / 219/.224 / 199/.190 .244  Rios
 Wells
 Stewart
 Stairs
 Coats
 Scutaro
0/22/147/11
0/148/0/5
139/6/0/4
43/0/17/3
5/2/5/2
6/0/4/0
OPS .964 .691 .750 .681 .676 .543 .696
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 10/1.367 75/.667 116/.835 80/.581 / 79/.695 / 97/.702 .656
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 18/.771 103/.709 439/.727 204/.720 / 140/.665 / 102/.400 .721
Road 8/.375 85/.720 249/.833 143/.788 / 117/.810 / 100/.581 .755
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 0/1/0 1/3/0 13/3/3 5/4/1 // 6/9/0 // 5/5/2 9/3/1
Usage ····X··· ·X·oX··o ·······X ·X·o·o·X ·o··XX·· X··o·X·o X······· XX···X·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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