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Game Preview: BOS @ OAK, 4:05pm, Sunday, September 2, 2012 @The Coliseum

RedSox, 62-72, 62-72 4th, 15 GB, 14 GB in WC

SP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (31, RHP, 1-3, 5.10)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (1-3) 30.0 28 18 17 10 26 4 5.10
2011 (3-3) 37.1 32 24 22 23 26 4 5.30
2010 (9-6) 153.2 137 84 80 74 133 13 4.69
Last 7 GS 1-3 34.1 33 23 22 17 28 4 5.77 46
2012-08-27 KCR W 7.0 5 1 0 2 6 0 101 69
2012-07-02 @OAK L 1.0 4 5 5 2 0 2 28 23
2012-06-26 TOR ND 5.2 6 1 1 1 5 0 100 57
2012-06-21 MIA ND 5.1 4 4 4 1 4 1 101 47
2012-06-15 @CHC L 6.0 4 3 3 3 3 0 93 52
2012-06-09 WSN L 5.0 5 4 4 1 8 1 80 48
2011-05-16 BAL ND 4.1 5 5 5 7 2 0 106 28
Last 5 v.OAK 3-1 21.1 25 16 16 8 21 5 6.75 45
2012-07-02 @OAK L 1.0 4 5 5 2 0 2 28 23
2010-07-19 @OAK W 6.2 2 1 1 2 6 1 89 70
2010-06-02 OAK W 6.2 10 3 3 0 7 1 109 49
2009-04-14 @OAK ND 1.0 5 5 5 2 0 0 43 21
2008-08-03 OAK W 6.0 4 2 2 2 8 1 105 62
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-38   Road:   30-34   ExtrInn: 2-8 
 vsRHP:  37-55   vsLHP:  25-17   1-Run:  13-17
 vsEast: 20-28   vsCntrl:24-16   vsWest:  7-21 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
134 Sat, Sep  1  @OAK  L   1-7       62-72  4th 15.0 gb
133 Fri, Aug 31  @OAK  L   2-20      62-71  4th 14.0 gb
132 Thu, Aug 30  @LAA  L   2-5       62-70  4th 14.0 gb
131 Wed, Aug 29  @LAA  L   3-10      62-69  4th 13.5 gb
130 Tue, Aug 28  @LAA  L   5-6       62-68  4th 13.5 gb
129 Mon, Aug 27   KCR  W   5-1       62-67  4th 12.5 gb
128 Sun, Aug 26   KCR  W   8-6       61-67  4th 13.5 gb
127 Sat, Aug 25   KCR  L   9-10(12)  60-67  4th 13.5 gb
126 Fri, Aug 24   KCR  W   4-3       60-66  4th 13.5 gb
125 Thu, Aug 23   LAA  L  13-14(10)  59-66  4th 13.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30: 9-21
Athletics, 75-57, 75-57 2nd, 3 GB, 2 up in WC

SP: Brett Anderson (24, LHP, 2-0, 0.64)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (2-0) 14.0 6 1 1 2 11 0 0.64
2011 (3-6) 83.1 86 40 37 25 61 8 4.00
2010 (7-6) 112.1 112 41 35 22 75 6 2.80
Last 7 GS 3-3 44.0 39 20 19 15 32 4 3.89 53
2012-08-27 @CLE W 7.0 2 0 0 2 5 0 95 76
2012-08-21 MIN W 7.0 4 1 1 0 6 0 86 71
2011-06-05 @BOS L 5.0 9 5 5 2 2 2 103 29
2011-05-31 NYY L 5.1 11 10 9 3 3 2 103 8
2011-05-26 @LAA W 8.0 3 0 0 3 4 0 105 77
2011-05-21 @SFG L 5.0 5 1 1 1 5 0 91 57
2011-05-16 LAA ND 6.2 5 3 3 4 7 0 111 55
Last 5 v.BOS 3-1 28.0 30 12 12 10 24 4 3.86 52
2011-06-05 @BOS L 5.0 9 5 5 2 2 2 103 29
2011-04-19 BOS W 8.0 4 0 0 1 8 0 109 81
2010-09-11 BOS W 7.0 8 2 2 3 5 1 109 55
2010-06-03 @BOS ND 2.0 5 2 2 0 1 0 36 39
2009-07-29 @BOS W 6.0 4 3 3 4 8 1 102 56
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   41-27   Road:   34-30   ExtrInn: 9-3 
 vsRHP:  52-33   vsLHP:  23-24   1-Run:  20-15
 vsEast: 24-15   vsCntrl:22-16   vsWest: 19-18 IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
132 Sat, Sep  1   BOS  W   7-1       75-57  2nd  3.0 gb
131 Fri, Aug 31   BOS  W  20-2       74-57  2nd  4.0 gb
130 Thu, Aug 30  @CLE  W  12-7       73-57  2nd  4.0 gb
129 Wed, Aug 29  @CLE  W   8-4       72-57  2nd  4.5 gb
128 Tue, Aug 28  @CLE  W   7-0       71-57  2nd  5.5 gb
127 Mon, Aug 27  @CLE  W   3-0       70-57  2nd  5.5 gb
126 Sat, Aug 25  @TBR  W   4-2       69-57  2nd  6.0 gb
125 Fri, Aug 24  @TBR  W   5-4       68-57  2nd  6.0 gb
124 Thu, Aug 23  @TBR  L   0-5       67-57  2nd  6.0 gb
123 Wed, Aug 22   MIN  W   5-1       67-56  2nd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 9-1    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Sep 01, 2012 OAK  7  BOS  1        W:A.J. Griffin (4-0), L: Felix Doubront (10-7), S: none
Fri, Aug 31, 2012 OAK 20  BOS  2        W:Brandon McCarthy (8-5), L: Aaron Cook (3-8), S: none
Wed, Jul 04, 2012 OAK  3  BOS  2        W:Grant Balfour (2-2), L: Aaron Cook (2-2), S: Ryan Cook (8)
Tue, Jul 03, 2012 OAK  3  BOS  2        W:Jerry Blevins (2-0), L: Alfredo Aceves (0-6), S: none
Mon, Jul 02, 2012 OAK  6  BOS  1        W:Jarrod Parker (5-3), L: Daisuke Matsuzaka (0-3), S: none
Wed, May 02, 2012 OAK  4 @BOS  2        W:Brandon McCarthy (2-3), L: Daniel Bard (2-3), S: Brian Fuentes (1)
Tue, May 01, 2012 OAK  5 @BOS  3        W:Jarrod Parker (1-0), L: Felix Doubront (1-1), S: Jordan Norberto (1)
Mon, Apr 30, 2012 BOS 11  OAK  6        W:Clay Buchholz (3-1), L: Tommy Milone (3-2), S: none

Sat, Aug 27, 2011 BOS  4  OAK  0        W:Alfredo Aceves (9-1), L: Graham Godfrey (1-2), S: none
Sat, Aug 27, 2011 BOS  9  OAK  3        W:Jon Lester (14-6), L: Guillermo Moscoso (6-8), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - OAK over 7-1; 2011 - BOS won 6-2; 2010 - OAK won 5-4; All-Time - BOS leads 1056-868

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 2012 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  5.14

SFG  4.32

HOU  3.63

 RA/G

WSN  3.59

TEX  4.29

COL  5.49

 BA

A. McCutchen  .346

Y. Alonso  .274

C. Pena  .188

 OBP

A. McCutchen  .410

A. Cabrera  .335

J. Smoak  .258

 SLG

R. Braun  .603

I. Kinsler  .437

J. Carroll  .295

 OPS

R. Braun  .992

D. DeJesus  .771

J. Smoak  .576

 ERA

J. Cueto  2.48

J. Johnson  3.86

R. Wolf  5.69

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.28

W. Chen  7.37

H. Alvarez  3.42

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

RedSox Batters (4.85 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.69 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Anderson*
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 54.Blackley*
G/S/vB		 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 65.Figueroa*
G/S/vB		 64.Griffin
G/S/vB		 40.Neshek
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Aviles G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.666 ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 2/.000 1/.000 492/348 .258/.286/.400/.687 .762/.656 .678 80/.678 12/5 13/13
77.Ciriaco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 164/114 .327/.340/.447/.786 .889/.742 .628 85/.760 10/0 2/4
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 13/.083 7/.786 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 2/2.000 1/2.000 236/150 .267/.309/.371/.680 .659/.694 .578 113/.686 11/1 2/0
50.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 ··· ··· 58/38 .321/.379/.453/.832 .683/.909 .643 27/.966 0/0 1/5
58.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 13/9 .000/.077/.000/.077 .000/.111 .083 13/.077 0/0 0/0
55.Kalish* G/S/vP 3/1.667 2/.500 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 90/77 .202/.244/.238/.483 .641/.456 .455 13/.397 3/2 0/3
60.Lavarnway G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 69/44 .194/.261/.242/.503 .285/.634 .476 59/.516 0/0 0/1
22.Loney* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 384/300 .260/.305/.352/.657 .568/.683 .664 64/.716 0/3 5/6
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 14/.536 8/.708 ··· 7/1.881 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 3/.000 1/no AB 519/358 .284/.340/.439/.778 .840/.751 .781 112/1.008 12/5 12/5
26.Podsednik* G/S/vP 6/1.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· 144/119 .344/.362/.405/.767 .958/.727 .646 74/.653 7/2 1/0
7.Ross G/S/vP 2/.500 5/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 5/.000 1/.000 ··· 414/293 .275/.339/.507/.846 1.119/.736 .669 99/.827 1/1 19/1
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 15/.400 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 6/.666 ··· ··· 378/331 .231/.286/.470/.755 .596/.778 .765 71/.651 0/1 23/6
IP 14.0 60.1 95.0 54.0 56.1 30.2 16.2 51.2 10.1 22.1 TOTAL .269/.324/.432/.756 .790/.742 .696 .741 75/22 147/79
ERA-K/9 0.64/7.1 2.54/7.9 3.79/6.0 2.67/8.0 2.40/9.9 3.23/13.2 1.08/4.3 2.26/7.0 0.87/11.4 2.82/7.7 3.43/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lavarnway (9-1-0)
 Saltalamacchia (70-16-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 47/.133 235/.159 384/.236 219/.212 225/.169 128/.250 64/.173 198/.193 40/.139 92/.230 .242  Ross
 Podsednik
 Ciriaco
 Ellsbury
 Kalish
21/7/71/7
20/17/4/2
1/1/2/0
0/53/0/0
0/20/6/0
OPS .326 .511 .662 .657 .554 .621 .578 .521 .475 .640 .674
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 17/.423 125/.495 115/.547 107/.576 110/.585 52/.853 21/.296 106/.474 9/1.194 42/.907 .708
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 30/.271 110/.529 269/.712 112/.736 115/.526 76/.459 43/.729 92/.576 31/.268 50/.425 .646
Home 22/.364 121/.411 177/.600 115/.810 107/.586 65/.529 46/.586 128/.497 24/.170 47/.632
Last 28d days 47/.326 30/.389 78/.793 27/.671 36/.600 31/.534 15/.500 24/.250 30/.600 26/.603
HR/SB/CS 0/1/1 4/2/2 7/2/4 6/4/3 4/4/2 0/4/0 1/2/0 5/0/3 1/1/0 2/1/0 114/80/41
Usage ·····X·· ·····X·o ···X···· ··XoX··· ···X·o·· ···X···o ·X······ X······· X··oo··· ·oX·o···
Athletics Batters (4.30 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.87 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Matsuzaka
G/S/vB		 91.Aceves
G/S/vB		 40.Bailey
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 53.Hill*
G/S/vB		 37.Melancon
G/S/vB		 30.Miller*
G/S/vB		 44.Padilla
G/S/vB		 63.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
22.Carter G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 190/111 .275/.379/.588/.966 .930/.987 .850 90/.918 0/0 13/5
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 1/.000 4/.250 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 409/280 .300/.359/.499/.858 .836/.869 .947 100/.764 14/3 16/2
12.Cowgill G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 108/65 .271/.343/.313/.655 .886/.510 .595 / 3/4 1/0
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 4/.000 5/1.067 ··· 2/.500 4/1.000 2/.500 3/.666 17/.938 1/.000 420/286 .260/.321/.419/.740 .652/.783 .811 107/.898 30/4 10/3
20.Donaldson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 171/119 .228/.263/.389/.652 .650/.653 .677 71/1.033 3/1 5/8
5.Drew* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/1.167 1/2.000 3/.000 10/.633 ··· 200/152 .197/.295/.301/.596 .580/.600 .517 88/.604 1/1 2/4
31.Gomes G/S/vP 15/.421 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 275/118 .253/.364/.481/.844 .919/.743 .742 41/.872 3/1 15/1
18.Hicks G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 69/21 .175/.246/.397/.643 .669/.588 .819 4/.250 1/0 3/3
7.Inge G/S/vP 11/.473 3/.000 4/.000 7/1.096 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 11/.764 2/1.000 331/204 .218/.275/.383/.658 .693/.636 .739 23/.856 0/1 12/8
14.Kottaras* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 155/128 .215/.383/.405/.788 .590/.822 .929 28/.901 0/0 6/2
37.Moss* G/S/vP 1/5.000 2/3.500 ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 199/159 .254/.322/.552/.874 .618/.941 .798 54/.960 0/1 15/5
36.Norris G/S/vP 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 166/103 .205/.277/.351/.628 .619/.634 .593 68/.671 5/1 5/3
2.Pennington# G/S/vP 6/.533 6/.900 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 7/1.881 1/.000 376/279 .209/.270/.303/.572 .390/.639 .554 62/.733 14/5 4/10
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 1/5.000 5/.200 ··· 3/1.000 2/1.500 3/1.666 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 547/359 .260/.326/.501/.827 .811/.835 .828 95/.728 10/1 28/5
17.Rosales G/S/vP 6/.334 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 82/39 .229/.329/.357/.686 .569/.822 .564 36/.792 0/0 2/0
15.Smith* G/S/vP 4/2.500 2/.000 ··· 2/2.500 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 6/.667 1/no AB 361/294 .243/.343/.430/.774 .562/.823 .731 36/.845 2/2 12/0
IP 30.0 70.1 5.2 54.1 14.1 35.0 34.1 44.1 31.1 TOTAL .237/.309/.399/.708 .699/.713 .699 .810 106/29 153/85
ERA-K/9 5.10/7.8 4.73/8.2 1.59/7.9 3.15/8.6 2.51/8.2 7.71/7.2 3.67/10.5 4.47/9.8 1.72/8.3 4.58/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Donaldson (4-2-0)
 Kottaras (32-5-1)
 Norris (21-11-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 128/.241 300/.237 23/.190 228/.236 60/.231 157/.291 140/.205 193/.286 130/.276 .261  Reddick
 Cespedes
 Cowgill
 Smith
 Crisp
 Moss
 Gomes
0/11/109/13
40/40/0/5
13/13/7/3
47/0/12/3
16/77/0/3
4/0/9/2
33/0/3/0
OPS .727 .696 .451 .682 .641 .864 .605 .824 .676 .751
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 63/.708 160/.735 9/.819 99/.649 36/.572 68/1.004 86/.408 92/.819 51/.640 .738
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 65/.745 140/.653 14/.220 129/.705 24/.739 89/.757 54/.921 101/.829 79/.700 .761
Road 35/1.021 146/.579 7/.452 100/.595 19/.849 62/.873 70/.621 98/.831 45/.759
Last 28d days 28/.530 63/.816 23/.451 36/.829 3/.333 44/.874 29/.571 22/.739 63/.767
HR/SB/CS 4/7/0 9/6/1 0/0/0 5/2/2 0/4/1 8/0/1 3/0/0 6/3/1 1/3/1 153/98/27
Usage ·····X·· XX·XX··· o····o·o ·X····XX o······· ·X····Xo ···X···X ·X···o·X ·o·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.