OAK @ ATL, Friday, May 16, 2008 Game Preview

Oakland Athletics, 23-19, 2nd, ½ GB, ½ GB in WC	SP: Dana Eveland (24, LHP, 3-3, 3.23) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (3-3) 47.1 39 18 17 20 35 2 3.23 2007 (1-0) 5 8 8 8 5 3 0 14.40 2006 (0-3) 27.2 39 25 25 16 32 4 8.13 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-3 40.1 33 17 16 19 28 2 3.57 53 2008-05-10 @TEX L 6 6 3 3 2 5 1 88 51 2008-05-05 BAL ND 7 3 0 0 4 4 0 90 71 2008-04-30 @LAA L 5.1 7 6 6 2 5 0 96 33 2008-04-25 @SEA W 5.1 6 3 3 1 3 0 98 46 2008-04-20 KCR W 5.2 3 1 1 4 3 0 95 58 2008-04-15 @CHW L 4.2 5 4 3 3 2 1 87 39 2008-04-10 @TOR ND 6.1 3 0 0 3 6 0 95 70 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.ATL Has never faced ATL.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 12-9 Road: 11-10 ExtrInn: 3-1 vsRHP: 16-10 vsLHP: 7-9 1-Run: 7-5 vsEast: 7-3 vsCntrl:10-7 vsWest: 6-9 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 42 Thu, May 15 @CLE L 2-4 23-19 2nd 0.5 gb 41 Wed, May 14 @CLE L 0-2 23-18 2nd 0.5 gb 40 Tue, May 13 @CLE L 0-4 23-17 2nd 0.5 gb 39 Sun, May 11 @TEX W 12-6 23-16 1st 1.0 up 38 Sat, May 10 @TEX L 4-6 22-16 1st Tied 37 Fri, May 9 @TEX L 0-4 22-15 1st Tied 36 Wed, May 7 BAL W 6-5 (10) 22-14 1st Tied 35 Tue, May 6 BAL W 4-2 21-14 2nd 1.0 gb 34 Mon, May 5 BAL W 2-1 (10) 20-14 2nd 1.0 gb 33 Sun, May 4 TEX W 3-1 19-14 2nd 1.0 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20:10-10 Last 30:15-15
Atlanta Braves, 20-20, 4th, 3 GB, 3 GB in WC	SP: Jair Jurrjens (22, RHP, 4-3, 3.10) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (4-3) 49.1 37 17 17 17 41 1 3.10 2007 (3-1) 30.2 24 16 16 11 13 4 4.70 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-3 44 30 15 15 16 36 1 3.07 59 2008-05-12 @PIT L 5 3 3 3 3 5 0 69 51 2008-05-06 SDP W 6 7 1 1 1 8 0 103 61 2008-04-30 @WSN ND 7 2 1 1 0 3 0 84 72 2008-04-25 @NYM W 6 2 3 3 4 4 0 107 56 2008-04-20 LAD W 7 3 1 1 3 8 1 114 72 2008-04-15 @FLA L 6 4 2 2 3 5 0 101 58 2008-04-08 @COL L 7 9 4 4 2 3 0 94 44 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.OAK Has never faced OAK.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 14-4 Road: 6-16 ExtrInn: 0-3 vsRHP: 13-10 vsLHP: 7-10 1-Run: 1-11 vsEast: 9-12 vsCntrl: 5-5 vsWest: 6-3 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 40 Thu, May 15 @PHI L 0-5 20-20 4th 3.0 gb 39 Wed, May 14 @PHI W 8-6 20-19 4th 2.5 gb 38 Tue, May 13 @PHI L 4-5 19-19 4th 3.5 gb 37 Mon, May 12 @PIT W 8-1 19-18 4th 3.5 gb 36 Mon, May 12 @PIT L 0-5 18-18 4th 3.5 gb 35 Sat, May 10 @PIT L 2-5 18-17 4th 3.5 gb 34 Fri, May 9 @PIT L 2-3 18-16 3rd 2.5 gb 33 Thu, May 8 SDP W 5-4 18-15 3rd 1.5 gb 32 Wed, May 7 SDP W 5-2 17-15 3rd 1.5 gb 31 Tue, May 6 SDP W 5-3 16-15 3rd 1.5 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20:10-10 Last 30:16-14
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Sun, Jun 12, 2005 OAK 11 @ATL 5 W:Barry Zito (3-7), L: Blaine Boyer (0-1), S: none Sat, Jun 11, 2005 ATL 5 OAK 3 W:John Smoltz (5-5), L: Justin Duchscherer (2-1), S: none Fri, Jun 10, 2005 OAK 6 @ATL 4 W:Danny Haren (4-7), L: Roman Colon (0-3), S: Huston Street (3) Thu, Jun 12, 2003 ATL 4 @OAK 2 W:Shane Reynolds (5-1), L: Barry Zito (7-5), S: John Smoltz (25) Wed, Jun 11, 2003 ATL 11 @OAK 6 W:Horacio Ramirez (5-2), L: Ted Lilly (3-5), S: none Tue, Jun 10, 2003 OAK 4 ATL 3 (12) W:Chad Bradford (5-3), L: Jung Bong (5-1), S: none Season Series: 2008 - 0-0; 2007 - 0-0; 2006 - 0-0; All-Time - Tied 3-3

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 2008 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

CHC 5.80

CHW 4.51

SDP 3.33

RA/G

CLE 3.49

BOS 4.49

TEX 5.45

A. Pujols .357

R. Weeks .187

OBP

A. Pujols .503

R. Zimmerman .268

SLG

C. Utley .665

R. Weeks .335

OPS

A. Pujols 1.097

R. Weeks .651

ERA

C. Lee .67

N. Blackburn 3.93

K. Rogers 6.65

K/9IP

E. Volquez 10.62

S. Chacon 6.18

J. Garland 2.01

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Oakland Athletics Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Atlanta Braves Pitchers (3.85 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 49.Jurrjens
G/S/vB 46.Acosta
G/S/vB 30.Bennett
G/S/vB 56.Boyer
G/S/vB 57.Campillo
G/S/vB 13.Ohman*
G/S/vB 48.Resop
G/S/vB 34.Ring*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 166/119 .224/.325/.329/.654 .681/.642 .647 90/.595 0/0 2/

18.Bowen# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 19/14 .167/.211/.167/.377 .400/.368 .258 14/.368 0/0 0/

8.Brown G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 164/109 .269/.293/.391/.684 .753/.648 .702 111/.684 2/0 4/

7.Crosby G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 176/125 .261/.324/.379/.703 .817/.657 .637 104/.720 1/2 2/

32.Cust* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/106 .243/.417/.396/.813 .600/.893 .798 91/.933 0/0 4/

38.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/23 .200/.226/.260/.486 .374/.638 .308 36/.631 7/1 0/

14.Ellis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 175/120 .242/.328/.379/.707 .525/.790 .822 97/.675 5/2 3/

22.Hannahan* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 122/95 .245/.402/.362/.763 .726/.775 .758 71/.940 1/0 2/

12.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 53/20 .208/.283/.333/.616 .482/.800 .445 38/.689 2/0 2/

24.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 162/111 .243/.309/.291/.599 .509/.641 .471 101/.494 1/1 1/

5.Sweeney G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 103/53 .323/.379/.441/.820 .786/.848 .847 44/.981 0/0 2/

15.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 101/90 .276/.340/.345/.685 .586/.696 .681 70/.696 3/0 0/

35.Thomas G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 153/110 .222/.353/.341/.694 .618/.725 .706 85/.705 0/0 3/

IP 49.1 18.0 32.0 23.2 21.1 16.2 11.1 6.1 TOTAL .250/.334/.355/.689 .617/.724 .684 .711 20/6 22/29

ERA-K/9

3.10/7.5

4.00/6.0

3.66/5.6

4.18/9.5

1.27/7.2

2.70/5.9

7.15/7.2

7.11/10.0

3.65/7.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Bowen (2-1-0)
Suzuki (15-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 202/.206 79/.227 143/.231 93/.209 84/.203 71/.270 54/.304 27/.217 .238 Brown
Murphy
Cust
Sweeney
Davis 22/1/27/4
1/0/0/0
27/0/0/0
0/31/9/0
3/20/1/0

OPS .576 .770 .722 .576 .516 .724 .896 .775 .683

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 103/.589 34/.840 48/.789 43/.531 34/.335 29/.745 20/.585 20/.694 .660

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 99/.562 45/.706 95/.683 50/.614 50/.634 42/.708 34/1.079 7/1.029 .701

Home 79/.606 43/.697 80/.642 51/.414 36/.677 38/.658 24/.961 13/.487 .646

Last 28d days 123/.474 53/.710 74/.644 61/.577 69/.632 46/.790 20/.721 14/.548

HR/SB/CS 1/7/1 3/0/0 3/4/1 2/4/1 0/0/0 1/0/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 27/30/8

Usage ···X···· ··oX···o ·o·X··XX ·X·o··o· X·o··X·X ·o·X··oo o······· ·o····oo

Atlanta Braves Batters (4.83 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (3.69 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 30.Eveland*
G/S/vB 59.Brown
G/S/vB 33.Devine
G/S/vB 41.Embree*
G/S/vB 29.Foulke
G/S/vB 44.Casilla
G/S/vB 57.Gaudin
G/S/vB 20.Street
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

18.Blanco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 83/66 .314/.422/.371/.793 .914/.762 .783 76/.809 2/0 0/

23.Diaz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 114/57 .261/.272/.333/.605 .825/.378 .875 54/.611 4/0 2/

19.Escobar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 170/104 .306/.389/.435/.825 .755/.870 .899 100/.712 2/0 4/

7.Francoeur G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 177/115 .274/.316/.421/.737 .783/.712 .778 112/.674 0/1 3/

8.Gotay# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/25 .200/.355/.240/.595 .286/.675 .384 21/.425 1/0 0/

4.Infante G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 4/.750 3/1.000 3/.833 1/.000 ··· 17/1 .294/.294/.353/.647 .688/.000 .667 17/.647 0/0 0/

2.Johnson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/97 .278/.345/.468/.813 .630/.907 .901 91/.884 4/2 5/

10.Jones# G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/1.666 6/1.100 ··· ··· ··· 167/102 .418/.479/.705/1.185 .937/1.343 1.224 100/1.198 0/0 11/

11.Kotsay* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 9/.347 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 ··· 149/92 .301/.358/.449/.807 .453/1.031 .930 89/.867 2/1 3/

16.McCann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 157/101 .307/.376/.571/.947 .912/.969 1.039 97/.943 0/0 7/

27.Miller G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 17/6 .067/.176/.067/.243 .384/.000 .258 11/.182 0/0 0/

20.Norton# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 3/1.000 4/1.000 37/25 .345/.486/.414/.900 .944/.880 1.335 31/.901 0/0 0/

24.Teixeira# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 7/.929 16/1.053 2/.000 14/.651 7/1.429 167/99 .247/.341/.411/.752 .631/.835 .703 101/.802 0/0 5/

IP 47.1 18.1 16.1 18.1 9.0 19.1 39.0 17.1 TOTAL .281/.351/.433/.784 .709/.830 .863 .778 16/4 40/24

ERA-K/9

3.23/6.7

2.45/7.4

0.55/11.0

3.44/8.4

4.00/8.0

0.93/10.3

3.46/6.7

3.63/9.4

3.32/7.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
McCann (28-7-0)
Miller (2-1-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 197/.228 76/.215 63/.183 72/.203 39/.250 73/.185 161/.247 71/.203 .239 Kotsay
Diaz
Francoeur
Blanco
Resop
Norton 0/36/0/2
29/0/0/2
0/0/40/2
15/9/0/0
1/0/0/0
1/0/1/0

OPS .638 .645 .422 .637 .724 .512 .651 .693 .657

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 39/.754 36/.659 24/.382 26/.763 16/.393 34/.358 88/.595 31/1.009 .617

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 158/.609 40/.620 39/.447 46/.564 23/.939 39/.660 73/.719 40/.468 .685

Road 122/.729 34/.639 39/.552 33/.798 19/.950 34/.792 85/.749 31/.268 .699

Last 28d days 121/.646 42/.786 40/.405 37/.368 11/1.055 45/.458 114/.576 36/.516

HR/SB/CS 2/2/1 2/0/1 0/1/0 2/0/0 1/0/0 1/4/0 4/1/1 3/1/0 28/17/10

Usage ·····X·· ··o····· o···X··· ··X·Xo·· ·o···X·· o···Xo·· X·····X· 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.

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Game Preview: OAK @ ATL, 7:30pm, Friday, May 16, 2008 @Turner Field

SP: Dana Eveland (24, LHP, 3-3, 3.23)

SP: Jair Jurrjens (22, RHP, 4-3, 3.10)

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