Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Game Previews > BOS @ OAK, Saturday, July 13, 2013

Game Preview: BOS @ OAK, 10:05pm, Saturday, July 13, 2013 @O.co Coliseum

RedSox, 58-37, 58-37 1st, 4½ up

SP: Jon Lester (29, LHP, 8-5, 4.60)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (8-5) 119.1 121 63 61 42 99 14 4.60
2012 (9-14) 205.1 216 117 110 68 166 25 4.82
2011 (15-9) 191.2 166 77 74 75 182 20 3.47
Last 7 GS 2-3 40.1 53 30 30 19 34 9 6.69 40
2013-07-08 @SEA L 5.0 9 5 5 2 6 1 112 33
2013-07-03 SDP ND 7.0 6 1 1 1 5 0 102 65
2013-06-27 TOR W 7.0 5 4 4 3 5 0 95 53
2013-06-21 @DET W 5.2 9 5 5 3 3 2 102 31
2013-06-16 @BAL L 5.0 9 5 5 0 8 1 106 37
2013-06-11 @TBR L 4.2 8 7 7 7 3 3 98 16
2013-06-06 TEX ND 6.0 7 3 3 3 4 2 108 47
Last 5 v.OAK 2-1 30.0 30 16 15 12 25 5 4.50 49
2013-04-24 OAK W 5.2 6 3 3 6 5 1 115 44
2012-07-03 @OAK ND 6.2 4 1 1 1 9 1 107 70
2011-08-27 OAK W 6.0 3 2 1 2 4 1 87 62
2009-07-30 OAK ND 5.2 7 4 4 3 2 0 104 38
2009-04-13 @OAK L 6.0 10 6 6 0 5 2 106 33
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   31-16   Road:   27-21   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  40-26   vsLHP:  18-11   1-Run:  13-8 
 vsEast: 23-15   vsCntrl:13-11   vsWest: 15-9  IL: 7-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 95 Fri, Jul 12  @OAK  W   4-2       58-37  1st  4.5 up
 94 Thu, Jul 11  @SEA  W   8-7 (10)  57-37  1st  3.5 up
 93 Wed, Jul 10  @SEA  W  11-4       56-37  1st  3.5 up
 92 Tue, Jul  9  @SEA  W  11-8       55-37  1st  3.5 up
 91 Mon, Jul  8  @SEA  L   4-11      54-37  1st  3.5 up
 90 Sun, Jul  7  @LAA  L   0-3       54-36  1st  4.5 up
 89 Sat, Jul  6  @LAA  L   7-9 (11)  54-35  1st  5.0 up
 88 Fri, Jul  5  @LAA  W   6-2       54-34  1st  5.5 up
 87 Thu, Jul  4   SDP  W   8-2       53-34  1st  4.5 up
 86 Wed, Jul  3   SDP  W   2-1       52-34  1st  3.5 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:18-12
Athletics, 54-39, 54-39 1st, 1 up

SP: A.J. Griffin (25, RHP, 7-6, 3.94)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (7-6) 114.1 103 53 50 27 91 18 3.94
2012 (7-1) 82.1 74 29 28 19 64 10 3.06
Last 7 GS 2-2 45.1 39 19 19 9 35 7 3.77 56
2013-07-07 @KCR W 5.0 5 2 2 1 4 2 105 52
2013-07-02 CHC ND 5.2 10 7 7 1 6 1 99 26
2013-06-26 CIN W 9.0 2 0 0 2 7 0 108 88
2013-06-20 @TEX ND 5.1 3 2 2 1 5 1 98 58
2013-06-15 SEA L 6.0 8 4 4 2 3 1 107 41
2013-06-09 @CHW L 7.1 7 4 4 1 5 2 102 52
2013-06-04 @MIL ND 7.0 4 0 0 1 5 0 109 73
Last 5 v.BOS 1-1 17.0 15 12 10 3 11 3 5.29 48
2013-04-22 @BOS L 4.0 8 9 7 1 3 2 84 16
2012-09-01 BOS W 7.0 3 1 1 0 5 0 91 72
2012-07-04 BOS ND 6.0 4 2 2 2 3 1 108 57
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-15   Road:   26-24   ExtrInn: 6-3 
 vsRHP:  36-27   vsLHP:  18-12   1-Run:  18-11
 vsEast:  7-10   vsCntrl:11-9    vsWest: 23-15 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 93 Fri, Jul 12   BOS  L   2-4       54-39  1st  1.0 up
 92 Wed, Jul 10  @PIT  L   0-5       54-38  1st  0.5 up
 91 Tue, Jul  9  @PIT  W   2-1       54-37  1st  0.5 up
 90 Mon, Jul  8  @PIT  W   2-1       53-37  1st  0.5 up
 89 Sun, Jul  7  @KCR  W  10-4       52-37  1st  0.5 up
 88 Sat, Jul  6  @KCR  L   3-4       51-37  1st  0.5 up
 87 Fri, Jul  5  @KCR  W   6-3       51-36  1st  0.5 up
 86 Thu, Jul  4   CHC  W   1-0       50-36  1st  0.5 up
 85 Wed, Jul  3   CHC  L   1-3       49-36  1st  0.5 up
 84 Tue, Jul  2   CHC  W   8-7       49-35  1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jul 12, 2013 BOS  4 @OAK  2        W:John Lackey (7-6), L: Sean Doolittle (3-3), S: Koji Uehara (8)
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 BOS  6  OAK  5        W:Jon Lester (4-0), L: Brett Anderson (1-4), S: Andrew Bailey (5)
Tue, Apr 23, 2013 OAK 13 @BOS  0  (7)   W:Bartolo Colon (3-0), L: Alfredo Aceves (1-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 22, 2013 BOS  9  OAK  6        W:Felix Doubront (2-0), L: A.J. Griffin (2-1), S: Andrew Bailey (4)

Sun, Sep 02, 2012 OAK  6  BOS  2        W:Brett Anderson (3-0), L: Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-4), S: none
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
Season Series: 2013 - BOS over 3-1; 2012 - OAK won 8-1; 2011 - BOS won 6-2; All-Time - BOS leads 1059-870

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 2013 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

BOS  5.22

CHC  4.09

MIA  3.32

 RA/G

PIT  3.35

MIA  4.27

HOU  5.27

 BA

M. Cabrera  .367

C. Santana  .268

B. Upton  .177

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .457

N. Cruz  .332

M. Dominguez  .259

 SLG

C. Davis  .702

E. Hosmer  .427

E. Andrus  .285

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.138

E. Cabrera  .767

P. Kozma  .564

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.98

J. Masterson  3.72

W. Davis  5.89

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.84

R. Porcello  7.25

J. Guthrie  4.35

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

RedSox Batters (5.22 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.92 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 64.Griffin
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 60.Chavez
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 54.Gray
G/S/vB		 47.Neshek
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
44.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 66/43 .155/.258/.310/.568 .274/.723 .685 7/.952 1/0 2/1
37.Carp* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/124 .305/.368/.609/.977 .618/1.038 .910 31/.675 0/0 8/2
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 6/.500 8/.875 4/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 410/266 .304/.369/.424/.792 .647/.870 .803 108/.996 36/3 3/3
5.Gomes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 199/95 .235/.332/.400/.732 .723/.741 .700 51/.804 0/0 6/0
26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 29/25 .318/.370/.318/.689 .667/.691 .689 29/.689 0/0 0/1
10.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 191/129 .384/.435/.483/.917 1.064/.848 .948 96/.766 2/1 1/2
20.Lavarnway G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 37/19 .273/.324/.394/.718 .863/.566 .577 28/.757 0/0 0/0
12.Napoli G/S/vP 7/1.429 7/.000 7/1.571 5/1.800 5/.200 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 362/259 .257/.343/.445/.788 .702/.822 .827 85/.703 1/1 11/5
29.Nava# G/S/vP 6/.500 3/2.167 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 357/264 .290/.378/.436/.814 .634/.878 .786 95/.700 0/2 10/2
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 6/2.167 10/.775 9/.666 2/2.500 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 322/211 .323/.407/.620/1.027 .767/1.172 1.079 101/1.085 3/0 19/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 6/.334 10/.900 8/1.625 2/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 423/300 .318/.397/.438/.835 .928/.798 .671 109/.827 13/4 6/1
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 8/.500 1/.000 2/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 283/214 .269/.343/.458/.801 .655/.846 .701 81/.738 0/1 8/4
23.Snyder G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 25/11 .250/.280/.458/.738 1.214/.091 .583 25/.738 0/0 1/1
18.Victorino# G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 265/174 .286/.335/.402/.737 .725/.736 .729 92/.824 10/2 4/2
IP 114.1 36.2 36.2 33.1 39.2 39.1 2.0 28.1 9.0 TOTAL .278/.352/.447/.798 .725/.833 .764 .819 71/16 98/50
ERA-K/9 3.94/7.2 1.72/9.1 3.44/7.6 2.97/7.0 2.50/8.4 3.66/8.0 0.00/13.5 2.86/7.0 3.00/6.0 3.69/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lavarnway (8-3-1)
 Saltalamacchia (44-10-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 470/.236 148/.195 157/.243 139/.210 164/.221 156/.224 7/.143 127/.274 37/.324 .243  Victorino
 Nava
 Gomes
 Ellsbury
 Bradley
 Carp
0/2/61/6
39/1/45/4
49/0/3/3
0/86/0/3
14/7/2/1
24/0/2/0
OPS .684 .575 .707 .584 .556 .607 .286 .747 .676 .681
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 254/.653 70/.554 69/.845 74/.596 73/.719 60/.646 2/.000 39/.865 17/.706 .711
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 216/.721 78/.595 88/.601 65/.568 91/.430 96/.582 5/.400 88/.695 20/.650 .658
Home 217/.680 85/.621 70/.747 63/.682 90/.467 92/.575 / 60/.734 29/.552
Last 28d days 100/.629 32/.509 35/1.152 60/.695 41/.626 38/.669 7/.286 22/.909 26/.654
HR/SB/CS 18/2/2 4/0/1 4/0/0 2/0/0 0/10/0 3/3/0 0/0/0 2/2/1 0/0/0 94/52/15
Usage ·····X·· ···oX··o ··o··Xo· X·o··X·· o··oo·X· X··o··o· ··X····· ··X····· ··o·····
Athletics Batters (4.55 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.22 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Lester*
G/S/vB		 40.Bailey
G/S/vB		 54.Beato
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 41.Lackey
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 67.Workman
G/S/vB		 35.Wright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/.667 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 333/230 .219/.285/.419/.704 .828/.651 .675 97/.528 5/5 15/1
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 9/1.047 ··· 1/no AB 3/.333 37/.576 3/.000 6/.733 ··· 1/3.000 320/201 .264/.348/.420/.768 .690/.814 .615 91/.465 14/4 9/0
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 3/.666 2/.000 ··· 3/1.167 382/270 .310/.380/.518/.897 1.086/.821 .918 94/1.004 2/2 15/8
7.Freiman G/S/vP 3/.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 126/32 .267/.317/.388/.705 .838/.321 .893 17/.529 0/0 2/1
35.Green G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ 6/.000 0/0 0/1
5.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· 16/1.038 ··· 4/.250 ··· 2/2.000 229/201 .273/.377/.361/.738 .459/.778 .714 46/.842 2/0 2/3
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 3/1.334 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.666 1/3.000 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 375/241 .301/.369/.433/.802 .753/.828 .775 88/.888 1/0 7/13
37.Moss* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 3/.333 ··· 3/.666 ··· 3/1.167 300/242 .230/.313/.464/.777 .617/.817 .749 81/.797 2/1 16/4
36.Norris G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 214/106 .204/.315/.326/.641 .809/.460 .825 32/.657 3/0 4/1
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.750 3/.333 ··· 4/.000 ··· 2/1.500 244/171 .216/.300/.347/.648 .641/.650 .612 79/.794 6/0 4/3
15.Smith* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 3/1.666 6/1.333 2/.500 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 298/221 .270/.339/.411/.750 .660/.782 .690 72/.706 0/0 6/0
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· 2/.500 229/189 .259/.332/.351/.683 .643/.692 .729 68/.745 7/4 1/4
25.Young G/S/vP 6/2.167 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 4/.750 ··· 1/5.000 ··· 2/.500 225/132 .189/.271/.368/.639 .549/.696 .657 38/.718 6/2 8/2
IP 119.1 28.2 3.0 30.1 100.1 40.0 40.1 2.0 9.1 TOTAL .246/.323/.398/.721 .727/.717 .716 .718 48/18 96/52
ERA-K/9 4.60/7.5 3.77/12.2 0.00/6.0 2.97/5.3 2.78/8.3 3.15/10.1 1.79/13.0 13.50/18.0 4.82/6.8 3.93/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (26-4-0)
 Norris (24-10-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 511/.261 116/.223 13/.231 125/.265 413/.236 165/.273 154/.160 10/.400 41/.257 .251  Cespedes
 Reddick
 Young
 Smith
 Moss
 Crisp
50/16/0/5
0/0/62/3
8/28/20/1
36/0/7/1
2/2/11/1
0/60/0/0
OPS .747 .761 .462 .723 .681 .773 .522 1.400 .680 .735
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 97/.874 62/.661 7/.286 50/.779 235/.593 85/.771 85/.366 6/1.500 30/.785 .710
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 414/.716 54/.872 6/.667 75/.683 178/.794 80/.775 69/.712 4/1.250 11/.384 .756
Road 317/.822 55/.935 3/.000 59/.617 250/.736 85/.765 80/.427 10/1.400 21/.396
Last 28d days 131/.851 30/.926 13/.462 54/.936 142/.649 41/1.017 45/.365 10/1.400 21/.396
HR/SB/CS 14/8/2 7/2/1 0/0/0 2/0/1 14/19/4 6/1/2 5/1/0 1/0/0 0/0/0 107/67/21
Usage ····X··· X··X··X· ········ ···X··Xo X····X·· ···X·o·o oo·o··Xo ··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.