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Game Preview: OAK @ TEX, 8:05pm, Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Athletics, 19-17, 19-17 2nd, 1 GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Brett Anderson (23, LHP, 2-2, 2.77)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (2-2) 48.2 47 17 15 8 35 3 2.77
2010 (7-6) 112.1 112 41 35 22 75 6 2.80
2009 (11-11) 175.1 180 94 79 45 150 20 4.06
Last 7 GS 2-2 48.2 47 17 15 8 35 3 2.77 58
2011-05-05 CLE ND 9.0 7 2 2 0 5 0 114 70
2011-04-30 TEX L 5.0 9 7 7 4 3 3 90 20
2011-04-24 @SEA W 7.0 5 2 1 1 6 0 106 66
2011-04-19 BOS W 8.0 4 0 0 1 8 0 109 81
2011-04-13 @CHW ND 5.2 9 3 2 1 3 0 105 43
2011-04-08 @MIN L 8.0 8 2 2 0 5 0 109 63
2011-04-02 SEA ND 6.0 5 1 1 1 5 0 108 62
Last 5 v.TEX 1-3 24.1 35 22 20 11 20 5 7.40 38
2011-04-30 TEX L 5.0 9 7 7 4 3 3 90 20
2010-08-27 @TEX L 2.0 6 4 4 2 0 0 50 26
2009-09-24 TEX W 5.2 6 3 1 0 6 0 90 55
2009-08-03 TEX ND 7.2 6 2 2 3 8 0 108 64
2009-05-30 @TEX L 4.0 8 6 6 2 3 2 83 23
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-8    Road:   11-9    ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  10-14   vsLHP:   9-3    1-Run:   6-6 
 vsEast:  2-3    vsCntrl: 9-7    vsWest:  8-7  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 36 Mon, May  9  @TEX  W   7-2       19-17  2nd  1.0 gb
 35 Sun, May  8  @KCR  W   5-2       18-17  2nd  2.0 gb
 34 Sat, May  7  @KCR  L   3-4       17-17  3rd  2.0 gb
 33 Fri, May  6  @KCR  W   3-2       17-16  2nd  2.0 gb
 32 Thu, May  5   CLE  L   3-4 (12)  16-16  3rd  2.0 gb
 31 Wed, May  4   CLE  W   3-1       16-15  3rd  1.0 gb
 30 Tue, May  3   CLE  L   1-4       15-15  3rd  1.0 gb
 29 Mon, May  2   TEX  W   5-4 (10)  15-14  3rd  1.0 gb
 28 Sun, May  1   TEX  W   7-2       14-14  3rd  2.0 gb
 27 Sat, Apr 30   TEX  L   2-11      13-14  3rd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13
Rangers, 18-18, 18-18 3rd, 2 GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Colby Lewis (31, RHP, 2-4, 5.21)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (2-4) 38.0 38 23 22 12 31 11 5.21
2010 (12-13) 201.0 174 90 83 65 196 21 3.72
2007 (0-2) 37.2 44 28 27 14 23 7 6.45
Last 7 GS 2-4 43.0 39 25 24 14 35 12 5.02 51
2011-05-05 @SEA L 8.0 8 3 3 1 11 1 113 64
2011-04-30 @OAK W 8.0 6 2 2 1 6 2 109 67
2011-04-25 TOR L 5.0 7 6 6 4 3 3 95 28
2011-04-19 LAA L 5.0 5 4 4 3 3 2 91 41
2011-04-09 @BAL L 6.0 6 5 4 1 4 2 95 45
2011-04-02 BOS W 6.0 6 3 3 2 4 1 108 50
2010-10-03 LAA ND 5.0 1 2 2 2 4 1 66 59
Last 5 v.OAK 2-2 32.2 28 12 10 10 34 5 2.76 59
2011-04-30 @OAK W 8.0 6 2 2 1 6 2 109 67
2010-09-26 @OAK W 6.0 6 1 1 1 6 0 102 61
2010-08-29 OAK L 5.2 8 7 5 3 7 2 91 33
2010-08-08 @OAK ND 6.0 3 1 1 3 7 0 106 66
2010-07-28 OAK L 7.0 5 1 1 2 8 1 116 69
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-8    Road:    6-10   ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  12-12   vsLHP:   6-6    1-Run:   3-5 
 vsEast:  8-8    vsCntrl: 4-2    vsWest:  6-8  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 36 Mon, May  9   OAK  L   2-7       18-18  3rd  2.0 gb
 35 Sun, May  8   NYY  L   5-12      18-17  2nd  2.0 gb
 34 Sat, May  7   NYY  W   7-5       18-16  2nd  1.0 gb
 33 Fri, May  6   NYY  L   1-4       17-16  2nd  2.0 gb
 32 Thu, May  5  @SEA  L   1-3       17-15  2nd  1.0 gb
 31 Wed, May  4  @SEA  W   5-2       17-14  1st    Tied
 30 Tue, May  3  @SEA  L   3-4       16-14  1st    Tied
 29 Mon, May  2  @OAK  L   4-5 (10)  16-13  1st    Tied
 28 Sun, May  1  @OAK  L   2-7       16-12  1st    Tied
 27 Sat, Apr 30  @OAK  W  11-2       16-11  1st  1.0 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, May 09, 2011 OAK  7 @TEX  2        W:Trevor Cahill (6-0), L: C.J. Wilson (4-2), S: none
Mon, May 02, 2011 OAK  5  TEX  4 (10)   W:Grant Balfour (2-1), L: Darren Oliver (1-3), S: none
Sun, May 01, 2011 OAK  7  TEX  2        W:Gio Gonzalez (3-2), L: Matt Harrison (3-3), S: none
Sat, Apr 30, 2011 TEX 11 @OAK  2        W:Colby Lewis (2-3), L: Brett Anderson (2-2), S: none
Fri, Apr 29, 2011 OAK  3  TEX  1        W:Trevor Cahill (4-0), L: C.J. Wilson (3-1), S: Brian Fuentes (7)

Sun, Sep 26, 2010 TEX 16 @OAK  9        W:Colby Lewis (12-13), L: Trevor Cahill (17-8), S: none
Sat, Sep 25, 2010 TEX  4 @OAK  3        W:Darren O'Day (5-2), L: Michael Wuertz (2-3), S: Neftali Feliz (38)
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 TEX 10 @OAK  3        W:Tommy Hunter (13-4), L: Bobby Cramer (2-1), S: none
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 OAK  5  TEX  0        W:Dallas Braden (10-13), L: Cliff Lee (12-9), S: none
Sun, Aug 29, 2010 OAK  8 @TEX  2        W:Gio Gonzalez (12-8), L: Colby Lewis (9-11), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - OAK over 4-1; 2010 - TEX won 10-9; 2009 - OAK won 11-8; All-Time - OAK leads 387-377

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 2011 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

NYY  5.31

ATL  4.17

SDP  3.09

 RA/G

ATL  2.97

SEA  4.20

HOU  5.34

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 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

J. Jurrjens  1.50

H. Kuroda  3.69

K. Davies  7.32

 K/9IP

M. Garza  11.68

B. Arroyo  6.75

C. Pavano  3.64

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

Athletics Batters (3.53 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.53 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Lewis
G/S/vB		 47.Bush
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 57.Lowe
G/S/vB		 28.Oliver*
G/S/vB		 53.Rhodes*
G/S/vB		 21.Tomko
G/S/vB		 59.Tucker
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP 23/.429 1/.000 4/.000 2/4.000 11/1.167 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 145/96 .208/.338/.292/.630 .936/.479 .643 96/.540 0/1 0/5
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 10/.875 8/.715 1/.000 4/.833 8/1.339 2/1.000 6/.500 ··· 124/85 .256/.274/.388/.663 .421/.770 .631 80/.685 9/3 1/1
12.DeJesus* G/S/vP 4/1.167 14/.967 1/.000 ··· 5/.650 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 132/97 .222/.298/.316/.614 .268/.743 .515 91/.661 0/1 2/0
14.Ellis G/S/vP 22/1.020 4/.000 5/.833 6/.167 12/.583 4/.750 1/no AB 1/.000 129/93 .190/.220/.273/.493 .472/.501 .450 88/.415 4/1 0/1
28.Jackson G/S/vP 4/.500 18/.513 ··· ··· 3/.666 3/1.167 13/.968 2/.500 91/50 .284/.363/.395/.758 .953/.595 .649 74/.823 2/0 1/1
5.Kouzmanoff G/S/vP 21/.714 7/1.429 1/.000 6/.334 3/2.667 ··· 4/.666 1/.000 94/70 .209/.245/.360/.605 .614/.602 .656 53/.679 2/0 3/6
21.LaRoche G/S/vP 3/.666 15/.673 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 1/3.000 1/no AB 67/42 .267/.343/.350/.693 1.120/.463 .864 50/.593 0/0 0/4
55.Matsui* G/S/vP 15/1.533 17/.728 4/.833 6/.833 11/.637 8/1.911 4/.500 1/no AB 124/87 .243/.298/.400/.698 .588/.746 .781 84/.712 0/0 3/
2.Pennington# G/S/vP 20/.378 2/1.000 7/.857 5/.200 8/.929 ··· 2/no AB 1/.000 118/86 .217/.267/.302/.569 .751/.503 .701 90/.646 4/5 2/3
11.Powell# G/S/vP 6/.333 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 34/26 .207/.324/.276/.599 .393/.664 .435 29/.401 0/0 0/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 15/.800 2/.000 3/.333 10/.300 10/.600 1/2.000 1/.000 2/2.500 121/83 .245/.314/.391/.705 .771/.675 .665 82/.747 1/1 4/0
15.Sweeney* G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· 3/.333 5/1.350 12/.750 3/.000 1/no AB ··· 47/46 .350/.447/.475/.922 .000/.944 .618 39/.922 0/0 0/0
16.Willingham G/S/vP 4/1.250 11/1.233 ··· ··· 4/.500 4/1.750 4/.000 2/1.000 129/83 .235/.310/.435/.745 .743/.746 .769 87/.724 2/1 6/1
IP 38.0 16.1 9.1 5.1 14.1 10.0 12.0 5.0 TOTAL .235/.301/.355/.657 .683/.646 .647 .658 24/13 22/30
ERA-K/9 5.21/7.3 2.20/4.4 0.96/5.8 6.75/3.4 2.51/6.9 4.50/7.2 5.25/6.8 7.20/7.2 4.16/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Powell (2-1-0)
 Suzuki (17-18-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 161/.259 70/.238 37/.125 27/.364 58/.228 42/.237 48/.220 25/.286 .249  Willingham
 Jackson
 Sweeney
 DeJesus
 Crisp
27/0/0/1
6/0/13/1
8/2/3/1
0/8/24/1
0/28/0/0
OPS .856 .632 .431 .899 .627 .810 .825 .924 .743
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 86/.866 33/.492 25/.203 11/1.245 23/.783 16/.607 23/1.101 12/1.117 .735
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 75/.842 37/.765 12/1.000 16/.625 35/.523 26/.929 25/.591 13/.748 .748
Home 71/1.025 39/.669 21/.143 16/.745 41/.544 26/.769 42/.799 16/1.269
Last 28d days 110/.881 70/.632 15/.673 17/.873 37/.742 30/.926 48/.825 25/.924
HR/SB/CS 11/1/3 1/3/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 3/0/1 3/1/0 3/0/0 1/1/0 45/21/9
Usage ····X··· ·X······ ··o····· ·X·X···· ··X···oo ·oo····X X·X····· oX·X····
Rangers Batters (4.72 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.31 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Anderson*
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 56.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 57.Fuentes*
G/S/vB		 29.Purcey*
G/S/vB		 48.Wuertz
G/S/vB		 31.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 15/.708 3/.000 4/.500 4/.666 7/.572 1/.000 4/.250 11/.705 144/104 .269/.321/.338/.660 .797/.609 .739 105/.659 11/0 1/8
29.Beltre G/S/vP 20/1.125 11/.495 4/1.250 5/.000 12/1.167 5/1.350 9/.444 6/.666 146/107 .237/.281/.444/.725 .754/.715 .645 100/.740 0/1 7/2
3.Blanco# G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 15/8 .182/.308/.545/.853 1.133/.619 1.000 8/.952 0/0 1/1
20.Borbon* G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 5/.400 7/.600 2/.000 1/.000 4/.666 3/.333 90/61 .284/.322/.370/.692 .797/.644 .839 63/.747 6/2 0/1
19.Davis* G/S/vP 5/.400 2/.500 3/1.000 6/.167 3/.333 4/2.000 4/.500 3/.666 36/32 .250/.333/.406/.740 .833/.726 .612 36/.740 0/0 1/1
23.Gentry G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/1 .333/.500/.333/.833 .333/2.000 .833 4/.833 1/0 0/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 12/.533 6/.834 5/.400 4/.250 5/.000 8/.536 8/.542 9/1.111 156/107 .218/.323/.421/.744 .773/.728 .866 110/.663 7/2 5/5
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 114/87 .297/.377/.554/.932 .561/1.036 1.069 84/.923 0/0 5/1
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 7/.715 6/.533 8/.250 10/.600 3/.000 4/1.000 5/.000 4/2.333 113/79 .272/.327/.388/.716 .552/.786 .819 95/.672 4/3 3/2
25.Napoli G/S/vP 12/1.583 2/.000 4/3.500 3/.666 3/.000 ··· 5/.000 5/.000 82/45 .197/.354/.515/.869 1.105/.672 1.037 63/.651 0/1 6/1
8.Torrealba G/S/vP 3/1.167 2/1.000 1/3.000 2/1.000 2/1.000 1/.000 4/.750 ··· 106/68 .233/.255/.369/.624 .541/.668 .709 73/.617 0/0 3/1
10.Young G/S/vP 15/1.523 11/.598 5/.600 4/.750 3/1.667 7/.715 6/1.467 13/.982 154/115 .338/.370/.486/.856 1.030/.795 .770 108/.890 3/0 2/2
IP 48.2 15.0 11.2 11.2 18.1 9.0 7.1 10.2 TOTAL .260/.326/.430/.756 .800/.739 .821 .717 34/10 41/33
ERA-K/9 2.77/6.5 1.80/10.2 3.86/8.5 4.63/5.4 4.42/6.9 4.00/7.0 0.00/9.9 0.00/7.6 2.62/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Napoli (3-0-0)
 Torrealba (18-8-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 197/.255 65/.185 55/.244 54/.383 79/.224 38/.182 26/.045 47/.233 .241  Borbon
 Murphy
 Moreland
 Gentry
0/30/0/1
26/9/0/1
0/0/19/0
0/1/2/0
OPS .634 .564 .852 .945 .601 .502 .205 .538 .636
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 74/.602 30/.387 22/1.056 23/1.072 21/.739 15/.851 13/.408 11/1.045 .677
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 123/.655 35/.716 33/.708 31/.848 58/.551 23/.274 13/.000 36/.382 .608
Road 87/.602 29/.584 28/.869 25/.530 36/.264 17/.578 7/.167 28/.382
Last 28d days 144/.673 50/.470 32/1.213 40/.692 57/.661 24/.341 23/.234 37/.578
HR/SB/CS 3/3/6 1/0/0 2/0/0 1/0/4 1/2/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 0/1/0 19/19/19
Usage ····X··· ·o·X·X·X o···o··· X···X·oo ·o·Xo·Xo ·····Xo· ·X··o·XX o····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.