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Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Oakland Athletics, at Chase Field & , August 28, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, August 28, 2015
Start Time:
6:40mst (local), 9:40et
Venue:
Chase Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
78° (based on last ten years)
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
129
On This Date:
57-48
D'backs
Manager:
Chip Hale
Game #:
130
On This Date:
9-5
Season Series

Fri, Aug 28, 2015 OAK    @ARI  9:40pm
Sat, Aug 29, 2015 OAK    @ARI  8:10pm
Sun, Aug 30, 2015 OAK    @ARI  4:10pm

                         All times ET
Oakland Athletics
55-73, 5th, 16 GB, 15 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   30-36   Road:   25-37   ExtrInn: 5-9 
 vsRHP:  44-49   vsLHP:  11-24   1-Run:  14-30
 vsEast: 10-23   vsCntrl:12-17   vsWest: 25-27 IL: 8-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
128 Wed, Aug 26  @SEA  L   2-8       55-73  5th 16.0 gb
127 Tue, Aug 25  @SEA  L   5-6       55-72  5th 15.0 gb
126 Mon, Aug 24  @SEA  W  11-5       55-71  5th 14.0 gb
125 Sun, Aug 23   TBR  W   8-2       54-71  5th 15.0 gb
124 Sat, Aug 22   TBR  L   4-5       53-71  5th 15.0 gb
123 Fri, Aug 21   TBR  L   1-2       53-70  5th 14.0 gb
122 Wed, Aug 19   LAD  W   5-2       53-69  5th 13.5 gb
121 Tue, Aug 18   LAD  W   5-4 (10)  52-69  5th 13.5 gb
120 Mon, Aug 17  @BAL  L   2-4       51-69  5th 13.5 gb
119 Sun, Aug 16  @BAL  L   2-18      51-68  5th 13.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:11-19
Arizona Diamondbacks
62-65, 3rd, 8½ GB, 15½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   30-33   Road:   32-32   ExtrInn: 8-8 
 vsRHP:  48-47   vsLHP:  14-18   1-Run:  18-20
 vsEast: 15-18   vsCntrl:14-16   vsWest: 24-26 IL: 9-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
127 Thu, Aug 27   STL  L   3-5       62-65  3rd  8.5 gb
126 Wed, Aug 26   STL  L   1-3       62-64  3rd  7.5 gb
125 Tue, Aug 25   STL  L   1-9       62-63  3rd  6.5 gb
124 Mon, Aug 24   STL  L   3-5       62-62  3rd  5.5 gb
123 Sun, Aug 23  @CIN  W   4-0       62-61  3rd  5.0 gb
122 Sat, Aug 22  @CIN  W  11-7       61-61  3rd  6.0 gb
121 Fri, Aug 21  @CIN  W   6-3       60-61  3rd  7.0 gb
120 Thu, Aug 20  @CIN  W   5-4       59-61  3rd  8.0 gb
119 Wed, Aug 19  @PIT  L   1-4       58-61  3rd  8.5 gb
118 Tue, Aug 18  @PIT  L   8-9 (15)  58-60  3rd  8.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 10, 2012 ARI  4  OAK  3        W:Joe Saunders (4-4), L: Travis Blackley (0-2), S: J.J. Putz (13)
Sat, Jun 09, 2012 ARI  8  OAK  3        W:Trevor Cahill (4-5), L: Jarrod Parker (2-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 08, 2012 ARI  9  OAK  8        W:J.J. Putz (1-3), L: Brian Fuentes (2-2), S: none
Sun, Jul 03, 2011 OAK  7  ARI  2        W:Gio Gonzalez (8-5), L: Ian Kennedy (8-3), S: none
Sat, Jul 02, 2011 ARI  4 @OAK  2        W:Joe Saunders (5-7), L: Josh Outman (3-3), S: David Hernandez (3)
Fri, Jul 01, 2011 OAK  5  ARI  4        W:Rich Harden (1-0), L: Josh Collmenter (4-5), S: Andrew Bailey (7)
Sun, May 24, 2009 OAK  6  ARI  2        W:Josh Outman (2-0), L: Jon Garland (4-3), S: none
Sat, May 23, 2009 ARI  8 @OAK  7 (11)   W:Tony Pena (4-1), L: Craig Breslow (1-3), S: Chad Qualls (11)
Fri, May 22, 2009 ARI  2 @OAK  1        W:Billy Buckner (1-0), L: Trevor Cahill (2-4), S: Jon Rauch (2)
Thu, Jun 19, 2008 ARI  2  OAK  1        W:Tony Pena (1-1), L: Keith Foulke (0-2), S: Brandon Lyon (15)
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - ARI leads 14-13

SP: Sonny Gray (25, RHP, 12-5, 2.10)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. ARI Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (12-5) 175.1 127 47 41 44 145 13 2.10
2014 (14-10) 219.0 187 84 75 74 183 15 3.08
2013 (5-3) 64.0 51 22 19 20 67 4 2.67
Last 7 GS 2-2 51.2 38 16 13 14 37 8 2.26 63
2015-08-22 TBR ND 8.0 5 3 3 2 4 3 108 62
2015-08-17 @BAL L 5.2 7 4 1 2 5 1 97 48
2015-08-07 HOU W 9.0 5 1 1 0 5 1 107 78
2015-08-02 CLE ND 7.0 4 1 1 4 7 0 96 68
2015-07-28 @LAD W 9.0 3 0 0 1 9 0 110 89
2015-07-22 TOR ND 7.0 9 2 2 2 3 1 103 52
2015-07-17 MIN L 6.0 5 5 5 3 4 2 94 43
Has never faced ARI as starter.

SP: Chase Anderson (27, RHP, 6-5, 4.28)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-5) 128.1 135 63 61 33 86 14 4.28
2014 (9-7) 114.1 117 56 51 40 105 16 4.01
Last 7 GS 2-3 37.1 48 26 24 12 31 5 5.79 43
2015-08-23 @CIN W 6.2 5 0 0 3 2 0 91 63
2015-08-18 @PIT ND 4.2 9 7 5 2 5 1 97 25
2015-08-12 PHI L 5.0 9 5 5 0 5 1 80 34
2015-08-07 CIN W 7.0 4 0 0 2 7 0 87 74
2015-07-18 SFG L 3.2 10 7 7 1 3 0 82 15
2015-07-10 @NYM L 4.1 8 4 4 2 4 2 101 33
2015-07-03 COL ND 6.0 3 3 3 2 5 1 92 57
Has never faced OAK as starter.

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Athletics Batters (4.09 RS/G) vs. D'backs Pitchers (4.30 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 57.Anderson
G/S/vB		 40.Chafin*
G/S/vB		 55.Collmenter
G/S/vB		 48.Delgado
G/S/vB		 30.Hernandez
G/S/vB		 41.Hudson
G/S/vB		 43.Reed
G/S/vB		 45.Reynolds*
G/S/vB		 29.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Burns# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 441/302 .298/.338/.392/.730 .800/.698 .672 101/.760 25/5 3/2
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 1/.000 4/2.750 5/1.400 10/.775 ··· 5/.400 474/334 .236/.310/.357/.667 .676/.663 .665 80/.604 0/0 9/0
20.Canha G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 334/221 .254/.308/.420/.729 .468/.862 .734 80/.882 5/2 10/3
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 5/1.167 2/2.000 2/.000 ··· 110/71 .152/.236/.202/.438 .534/.384 .469 58/.608 2/0 0/0
23.Fuld* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 271/224 .194/.271/.302/.573 .382/.613 .527 48/.469 8/2 2/3
15.Lawrie G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 467/332 .275/.313/.416/.729 .843/.683 .788 84/.789 5/2 12/20
50.Muncy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 91/89 .207/.275/.378/.653 .500/.652 .743 3/1.000 0/0 2/6
19.Phegley G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 197/89 .268/.315/.470/.785 .818/.744 .739 46/.700 0/0 7/2
22.Reddick* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 7/1.429 3/2.000 3/.000 1/5.000 ··· 453/344 .280/.330/.455/.785 .657/.826 .804 75/.675 6/1 15/3
10.Semien G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 476/347 .252/.297/.389/.686 .810/.640 .674 74/.831 10/4 11/32
5.Smolinski G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 114/43 .200/.307/.337/.644 .728/.506 .524 11/.764 1/1 3/0
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 353/288 .242/.289/.275/.564 .486/.581 .558 59/.602 6/1 0/6
26.Valencia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/no AB ··· 4/1.250 245/132 .289/.328/.518/.845 .791/.889 .743 72/.865 2/1 12/1
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 442/328 .261/.342/.449/.791 .647/.841 .819 71/.754 0/2 16/5
IP 128.1 65.2 103.2 54.1 23.0 55.1 40.2 4.2 55.0 TOTAL .252/.311/.388/.699 .688/.703 .697 .719 69/21 103/102
ERA-K/9 4.28/6.0 2.33/6.7 3.99/4.4 3.15/8.6 4.30/8.6 3.90/9.0 4.20/7.5 1.93/7.7 1.47/4.9 4.03/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Phegley (22-15-5)
 Vogt (41-19-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 537/.277 262/.203 427/.279 235/.249 98/.286 238/.245 181/.283 19/.176 205/.166 .258  Fuld
 Reddick
 Smolinski
 Burns
 Crisp
 Canha
 Valencia
51/33/16/10
0/1/112/5
31/0/11/2
0/100/0/1
26/0/0/1
50/0/3/0
32/0/5/0
OPS .755 .536 .798 .703 .820 .704 .773 .616 .483 .738
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 240/.756 108/.493 205/.764 89/.727 36/.736 107/.631 74/.673 5/.200 100/.607 .744
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 297/.754 154/.565 222/.831 146/.688 62/.865 131/.761 107/.839 14/.747 105/.367 .734
Home 240/.731 134/.609 242/.836 112/.567 51/.793 127/.585 80/1.038 16/.741 120/.507
Last 28d days 98/.790 47/.377 71/.447 29/.915 42/.870 53/.878 56/.618 19/.616 34/.517
HR/SB/CS 14/4/3 1/1/0 16/3/4 6/2/1 4/1/0 7/6/3 2/2/1 1/0/0 3/0/1 138/54/22
Usage ····X··· ·o·o·X·X ·X·X···X ··X··X·· ·o···X·o o··X·o·X o·X·X·o· X·X·o··· o·X···oo
D'backs Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.02 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Gray
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 49.Mujica
G/S/vB		 13.Pomeranz*
G/S/vB		 33.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 29.Venditte
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Ahmed G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 398/295 .216/.268/.320/.588 .741/.535 .537 78/.494 4/5 7/11
7.Castillo G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 4/.000 4/1.750 2/.000 ··· ··· 288/208 .242/.313/.492/.805 .830/.795 .726 80/.815 0/0 17/5
44.Goldschmidt G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 10/1.500 3/1.000 ··· ··· 559/441 .329/.444/.567/1.012 1.098/.988 1.080 109/.782 20/5 25/3
23.Hernandez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 30/29 .120/.241/.160/.401 /.401 .449 8/.250 0/0 0/0
2.Hill G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 3/1.000 11/1.295 3/2.667 1/.000 ··· 306/205 .227/.294/.327/.621 .557/.655 .732 83/.639 7/2 5/3
5.Inciarte* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 433/316 .298/.332/.397/.729 .513/.809 .763 109/.767 13/7 4/5
19.Lamb* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 283/247 .271/.332/.411/.743 .667/.753 .671 91/.723 3/1 5/5
16.Owings G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 436/329 .232/.263/.333/.595 .474/.635 .657 85/.629 14/4 4/4
6.Peralta* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 408/340 .302/.365/.514/.879 .736/.907 .931 88/.977 5/3 13/1
11.Pollock G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 6/.167 ··· ··· ··· 528/412 .319/.371/.485/.857 .925/.837 .849 101/.986 33/6 13/2
8.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.333 2/.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 162/131 .206/.298/.362/.660 .855/.612 .812 52/.894 0/0 4/2
24.Tomas G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 372/275 .291/.323/.421/.743 .808/.722 .777 60/.629 5/2 8/8
IP 175.1 36.2 2.2 38.2 75.1 42.0 59.2 13.2 TOTAL .265/.325/.407/.733 .729/.733 .752 .745 110/37 115/61
ERA-K/9 2.10/7.4 3.68/8.8 10.13/6.7 4.89/6.0 3.58/8.5 4.07/10.9 4.37/9.5 2.63/5.3 3.68/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castillo (19-5-5)
 Hernandez (1-1-2)
 Saltalamacchia (17-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 682/.200 153/.241 14/.300 156/.293 309/.212 180/.220 237/.252 50/.130 .242  Inciarte
 Pollock
 Peralta
 Tomas
43/18/52/8
0/117/0/4
96/1/7/3
1/0/49/2
OPS .541 .807 .729 .815 .612 .629 .761 .439 .678
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 369/.522 85/.910 3/.667 64/.842 97/.322 74/.482 100/.704 17/.368 .662
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 313/.563 68/.663 11/.697 92/.795 212/.749 106/.732 137/.803 33/.476 .692
Road 351/.520 71/1.159 5/.650 66/.890 180/.700 85/.585 121/.828 25/.480
Last 28d days 114/.616 37/1.124 10/.833 40/.923 37/.247 51/.888 44/.784 32/.552
HR/SB/CS 13/6/2 9/0/2 0/1/0 9/7/1 5/9/1 2/2/2 14/6/3 1/0/0 119/63/34
Usage ·····X·· ·Xo·o··· ·X··X··· ·o·X···· ···o·o·· ··X·X··· ·o·X··X· ·X·X·Xo·

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 2015 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

TOR  5.43

LAD  4.11

ATL  3.65

 RA/G

STL  2.97

CLE  4.17

COL  5.35

 BA

B. Harper  .334

Y. Solarte  .266

C. Carter  .179

 OBP

B. Harper  .460

R. Martin  .329

O. Infante  .231

 SLG

B. Harper  .639

L. Valbuena  .423

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.099

N. Walker  .752

O. Infante  .539

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.61

A. Wood  3.70

K. Lohse  6.27

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.03

J. Quintana  7.59

M. Buehrle  4.25

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.