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Tampa Bay Rays vs. Oakland Athletics, at Tropicana Field, May 23, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Start Time:
4:10et (local)
Venue:
Tropicana Field
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
45
On This Date:
45-50
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
44
On This Date:
10-5
Season Series
Thu, May 21, 2015 TBR  3  OAK  0     
Fri, May 22, 2015 TBR  5  OAK  2     

Sat, May 23, 2015 OAK    @TBR  4:10pm
Sun, May 24, 2015 OAK    @TBR  1:10pm
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 TBR    @OAK 10:05pm
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 TBR    @OAK  9:05pm
Sun, Aug 23, 2015 TBR    @OAK  4:05pm

                         All times ET
Oakland Athletics
14-30, 5th, 13½ GB, 12½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-14   Road:    9-16   ExtrInn: 0-6 
 vsRHP:  13-21   vsLHP:   1-9    1-Run:   2-13
 vsEast:  1-4    vsCntrl: 2-8    vsWest: 11-18 IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 44 Fri, May 22  @TBR  L   2-5       14-30  5th 13.5 gb
 43 Thu, May 21  @TBR  L   0-3       14-29  5th 13.5 gb
 42 Wed, May 20  @HOU  L   1-6       14-28  5th 13.5 gb
 41 Tue, May 19  @HOU  L   4-6       14-27  5th 12.5 gb
 40 Mon, May 18  @HOU  W   2-1       14-26  5th 11.5 gb
 39 Sun, May 17   CHW  L   3-7       13-26  5th 12.5 gb
 38 Sat, May 16   CHW  L   3-4       13-25  5th 11.5 gb
 37 Fri, May 15   CHW  L   6-7       13-24  5th 10.5 gb
 36 Wed, May 13   BOS  L   0-2       13-23  5th  9.0 gb
 35 Tue, May 12   BOS  W   9-2       13-22  5th  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30: 7-23
Tampa Bay Rays
24-19, 1st, 1½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-11   Road:   10-8    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  19-13   vsLHP:   5-6    1-Run:   5-8 
 vsEast: 16-13   vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest:  4-2  IL: 3-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 43 Fri, May 22   OAK  W   5-2       24-19  1st  1.5 up
 42 Thu, May 21   OAK  W   3-0       23-19  1st  0.5 up
 41 Wed, May 20  @ATL  L   1-2       22-19  1st    Tied
 40 Tue, May 19  @ATL  W   5-3       22-18  1st    Tied
 39 Sun, May 17  @MIN  W  11-3       21-18  2nd  1.0 gb
 38 Sat, May 16  @MIN  L   4-6       20-18  2nd  2.0 gb
 37 Fri, May 15  @MIN  L   2-3       20-17  2nd  1.0 gb
 36 Thu, May 14   NYY  W   6-1       20-16  2nd  1.0 gb
 35 Wed, May 13   NYY  W   3-2       19-16  2nd  2.0 gb
 34 Tue, May 12   NYY  W   4-2       18-16  2nd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 22, 2015 TBR  5  OAK  2        W:Chris Archer (5-4), L: Scott Kazmir (2-3), S: Brad Boxberger (13)
Thu, May 21, 2015 TBR  3  OAK  0        W:Alex Colome (3-1), L: Jesse Chavez (1-4), S: Brad Boxberger (12)

Wed, Aug 06, 2014 TBR  7 @OAK  3        W:Jeremy Hellickson (1-1), L: Sonny Gray (12-5), S: none
Tue, Aug 05, 2014 OAK  3  TBR  0        W:Jason Hammel (9-9), L: Drew Smyly (6-10), S: Sean Doolittle (17)
Mon, Aug 04, 2014 OAK  3  TBR  2 (10)   W:Ryan Cook (1-1), L: Grant Balfour (1-4), S: none
Thu, May 22, 2014 TBR  5  OAK  2 (11)   W:Josh Lueke (1-2), L: Dan Otero (4-1), S: none
Wed, May 21, 2014 OAK  3 @TBR  2        W:Tommy Milone (2-3), L: Erik Bedard (2-2), S: Sean Doolittle (4)
Tue, May 20, 2014 OAK  3 @TBR  0        W:Drew Pomeranz (4-1), L: Jake Odorizzi (2-4), S: Sean Doolittle (3)
Sun, Sep 01, 2013 OAK  5  TBR  1        W:A.J. Griffin (12-9), L: Alex Torres (4-1), S: none
Sat, Aug 31, 2013 OAK  2  TBR  1        W:Sonny Gray (2-2), L: Alex Cobb (8-3), S: Grant Balfour (35)
Season Series: 2015 - TBR over 2-0; 2014 - OAK won 4-2; 2013 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - OAK leads 93-59

SP: Kendall Graveman (24, RHP, 1-2, 8.27)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-2) 16.1 24 17 15 9 7 3 8.27
2014 (0-0) 4.2 4 2 2 0 4 0 3.86
Last 7 GS 1-2 16.1 24 17 15 9 7 3 8.27 34
2015-04-25 HOU L 4.2 9 6 6 1 1 1 71 22
2015-04-20 @LAA ND 3.0 4 3 2 3 2 0 73 40
2015-04-14 @HOU W 5.1 4 0 0 4 3 0 96 59
2015-04-09 TEX L 3.1 7 8 7 1 1 2 57 16
Has never faced TBR as starter.

SP: Nate Karns (27, RHP, 3-1, 3.77)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-1) 45.1 32 20 19 21 44 6 3.77
2014 (1-1) 12.0 7 6 6 4 13 3 4.50
2013 (0-1) 12.0 17 11 10 6 11 5 7.50
Last 7 GS 3-0 39.2 27 14 13 17 40 5 2.95 58
2015-05-13 NYY W 5.0 7 2 2 2 6 0 92 49
2015-05-08 TEX W 7.0 4 2 2 2 9 1 117 68
2015-05-03 BAL ND 5.0 2 0 0 1 4 0 66 66
2015-04-27 @NYY ND 4.2 3 1 1 2 5 0 87 57
2015-04-22 BOS ND 6.0 7 5 5 4 3 2 108 37
2015-04-17 NYY ND 5.0 2 2 2 4 7 2 106 58
2015-04-12 @MIA W 7.0 2 2 1 2 6 0 106 71
Has never faced OAK as starter.

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Athletics Batters (4.25 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.40 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Karns
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 43.Frieri
G/S/vB		 54.Geltz
G/S/vB		 47.Gomes
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Burns# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 77/52 .292/.338/.347/.685 .497/.774 .599 77/.685 5/2 0/0
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 4/2.167 1/.000 5/1.600 6/1.417 4/.500 184/146 .269/.315/.386/.701 .963/.638 .704 104/.556 0/0 4/0
20.Canha G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 123/82 .212/.276/.372/.648 .279/.829 .585 54/.649 3/1 5/1
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 6/.167 ··· ··· 8/1.500 4/.250 52/34 .044/.173/.067/.240 .410/.147 .130 52/.240 1/0 0/0
23.Fuld* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 1/4.000 2/1.000 3/1.167 ··· 126/121 .198/.280/.297/.577 .200/.592 .510 56/.263 3/1 0/2
3.Gentry G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/2.000 4/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/no AB 43/22 .079/.163/.079/.242 .248/.234 .148 15/.354 1/0 0/2
15.Lawrie G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/1.167 ··· 5/.200 4/.000 10/1.200 176/134 .279/.310/.364/.674 .563/.706 .681 100/.771 2/0 2/7
50.Muncy* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 41/40 .265/.366/.529/.895 /.879 1.222 37/.945 0/0 2/2
12.Parrino# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/2 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 2/.000 0/0 0/0
19.Phegley G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 46/20 .244/.304/.341/.646 .885/.318 .367 26/.775 0/0 1/0
22.Reddick* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 2/.500 6/1.167 1/.000 5/.000 7/.715 7/.429 156/121 .302/.378/.511/.889 .447/1.020 .727 109/.873 2/1 6/2
10.Semien G/S/vP 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 4/.833 183/140 .300/.346/.482/.829 .863/.817 .807 105/.882 7/0 6/16
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.667 5/.400 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 146/118 .264/.285/.314/.599 .339/.659 .604 93/.576 1/0 0/3
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/5.000 147/120 .309/.408/.610/1.018 .799/1.064 1.064 83/.944 0/0 10/2
IP 45.1 16.1 11.1 18.2 19.0 15.1 19.1 3.0 TOTAL .256/.317/.391/.708 .577/.747 .686 .686 26/5 39/46
ERA-K/9 3.77/8.7 1.10/13.3 1.59/9.6 5.30/8.2 2.84/11.4 1.76/8.2 1.86/7.0 0.00/18.0 3.30/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Phegley (7-3-1)
 Vogt (17-7-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 189/.196 63/.158 47/.214 80/.250 74/.138 63/.220 83/.176 10/.100 .219  Reddick
 Fuld
 Crisp
 Gentry
 Burns
 Canha
0/1/37/4
8/27/2/4
11/0/0/1
10/5/3/1
0/18/0/0
22/0/0/0
OPS .630 .431 .607 .852 .459 .575 .512 .200 .635
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 101/.624 31/.566 26/.392 36/.806 38/.388 33/.703 42/.457 4/.000 .653
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 88/.633 32/.295 21/.899 44/.891 36/.531 30/.440 41/.571 6/.333 .615
Home 144/.712 34/.235 18/.444 42/.613 41/.463 44/.464 49/.481 3/.000
Last 28d days 88/.496 32/.422 32/.483 43/.812 33/.315 43/.726 53/.683 10/.200
HR/SB/CS 6/3/0 0/0/1 1/1/0 5/3/0 1/2/0 1/3/0 1/2/1 0/0/0 36/28/9
Usage ········ oX·o···· o·oo·o·· o····Xo· ·XX···o· X··o···o oo·X··Xo ·X·o·o··
Rays Batters (3.95 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.64 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 44.Castro
G/S/vB		 36.Clippard
G/S/vB		 68.Leon
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 33.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Beckham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· 94/50 .224/.266/.459/.725 .858/.601 .596 50/.576 2/1 5/1
9.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 47/30 .295/.340/.477/.818 .647/.919 .819 47/.818 0/1 2/0
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.500 1/.000 4/1.250 163/126 .211/.264/.342/.606 .549/.623 .641 91/.645 1/1 2/1
7.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· 4/1.417 1/.000 4/.250 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 111/108 .317/.360/.490/.851 .667/.856 .762 72/.805 1/1 4/0
11.Forsythe G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 162/108 .294/.370/.469/.839 .886/.813 .832 96/.859 1/1 4/2
2.Franklin# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 10/8 .200/.200/.300/.500 2.500/.000 .000 10/.500 0/0 0/0
5.Guyer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 105/49 .289/.375/.422/.797 .806/.786 .854 60/.854 5/1 2/0
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 139/107 .246/.290/.423/.713 .700/.717 .596 90/.630 2/1 3/0
21.Loney* G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/1.000 3/2.000 ··· 110/82 .277/.327/.386/.713 .670/.728 .681 101/.650 0/1 2/0
3.Longoria G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 3/2.334 173/135 .282/.370/.450/.820 1.208/.719 .911 102/.818 1/0 5/2
44.Rivera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 122/86 .148/.190/.235/.425 .400/.435 .416 63/.431 0/0 2/2
20.Souza G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 166/125 .229/.327/.417/.744 .884/.702 .745 99/.669 7/3 7/1
46.Wilson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 45/30 .171/.244/.171/.415 .421/.412 .195 26/.352 0/0 0/0
IP 16.1 11.2 3.0 18.0 2.2 20.0 8.2 23.1 TOTAL .245/.313/.393/.706 .774/.681 .701 .695 25/14 41/15
ERA-K/9 8.27/3.9 6.94/5.4 3.00/9.0 2.50/7.5 6.75/10.0 4.50/5.8 5.19/9.3 2.70/10.4 4.13/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Rivera (15-6-2)
 Wilson (13-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 83/.343 54/.326 17/.462 74/.167 14/.385 81/.253 35/.194 90/.218 .242  Kiermaier
 Souza
 DeJesus
 Guyer
 Butler
0/38/2/2
0/0/39/2
16/0/0/1
23/4/5/0
6/0/1/0
OPS .948 1.116 1.255 .545 1.121 .697 .544 .601 .688
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 45/1.100 34/1.424 9/1.194 34/.211 5/.400 32/.629 18/.399 42/.520 .665
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 38/.780 20/.550 8/1.314 40/.811 9/1.556 49/.741 17/.710 48/.667 .706
Road 40/.650 28/1.559 11/.855 26/.157 14/1.121 48/.767 24/.351 42/.515
Last 28d days / 27/1.364 17/1.255 44/.496 8/1.125 41/.644 35/.544 54/.681
HR/SB/CS 3/1/1 4/0/0 1/0/0 2/4/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 0/0/1 3/0/1 38/24/10
Usage o··X·ooo ·X·o···· ····oX·· X·o····· ··X··XX· ·o·X··oo o···X··X

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  5.14

CHC  4.22

PHI  3.11

 RA/G

STL  3.10

MIN  4.39

COL  5.28

 BA

D. Gordon  .386

J. Martinez  .266

C. Carter  .157

 OBP

B. Harper  .475

A. Hechavarria  .327

E. Gattis  .221

 SLG

B. Harper  .750

S. Souza  .417

J. Ramirez  .254

 OPS

B. Harper  1.225

B. Moss  .749

J. Ramirez  .519

 ERA

S. Miller  1.33

C. Kluber  3.79

K. Kendrick  6.58

 K/9IP

D. Salazar  12.36

S. Miller  7.17

J. Guthrie  3.42

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.