OAK @ KCR, Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Game Preview

Oakland Athletics, 63-75, 3rd, 21½ GB, 14 GB in WC	SP: Dana Eveland (24, LHP, 8-8, 4.21) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (8-8) 139 136 66 65 68 94 8 4.21 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 36.1 47 26 26 21 25 5 6.44 40 2008-08-28 MIN ND 7 5 2 2 3 2 0 97 58 2008-08-23 @SEA W 7 5 1 1 1 7 0 93 69 2008-08-02 @BOS L 2 8 9 9 2 2 2 68 4 2008-07-27 TEX ND 4.2 8 5 5 2 5 0 78 31 2008-07-21 @TBR L 5 7 4 4 4 4 2 106 37 2008-07-12 LAA L 5.1 5 2 2 5 5 0 93 50 2008-07-07 SEA W 5.1 9 3 3 4 0 1 100 34 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.KCR 1-0 5.2 3 1 1 4 3 0 1.59 58 2008-04-20 KCR W 5.2 3 1 1 4 3 0 95 58
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 36-35 Road: 27-40 ExtrInn: 7-6 vsRHP: 40-51 vsLHP: 23-24 1-Run: 21-22 vsEast: 15-23 vsCntrl:20-21 vsWest: 18-23 IL:10-8 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 138 Tue, Sep 2 @KCR L 2-5 63-75 3rd 21.5 gb 137 Sun, Aug 31 MIN L 4-12 63-74 3rd 20.5 gb 136 Sat, Aug 30 MIN W 3-2 63-73 3rd 20.5 gb 135 Fri, Aug 29 MIN L 2-12 62-73 3rd 20.5 gb 134 Thu, Aug 28 MIN W 3-2 62-72 3rd 19.5 gb 133 Wed, Aug 27 @LAA W 6-5 61-72 3rd 19.5 gb 132 Tue, Aug 26 @LAA L 1-5 60-72 3rd 20.5 gb 131 Mon, Aug 25 @LAA W 2-1 60-71 3rd 19.5 gb 130 Sun, Aug 24 @SEA L 4-8 59-71 3rd 20.5 gb 129 Sat, Aug 23 @SEA W 5-1 59-70 3rd 19.5 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20: 8-12 Last 30:10-20
Kansas City Royals, 58-79, 5th, 18½ GB, 18½ GB in WC	SP: Brian Bannister (27, RHP, 7-14, 5.75) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (7-14) 155 177 106 99 51 101 25 5.75 2007 (12-9) 165 156 76 71 44 77 15 3.87 2006 (2-1) 38 34 18 18 22 19 4 4.26 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 0-6 37 46 29 27 16 28 9 6.57 42 2008-08-27 TEX L 6.2 6 3 2 1 8 1 101 59 2008-08-22 DET L 8 5 4 4 3 2 2 100 55 2008-08-17 @NYY L 1 10 10 10 3 0 3 65 -10 2008-08-12 @CHW L 7 4 4 4 2 7 3 106 58 2008-08-05 BOS L 4 6 3 3 2 3 0 87 39 2008-07-30 @OAK ND 5 8 2 2 4 7 0 111 46 2008-07-25 TBR L 5.1 7 3 2 1 1 0 100 44 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.OAK 1-1 25 26 11 11 9 15 1 3.96 51 2008-07-30 @OAK ND 5 8 2 2 4 7 0 111 46 2008-04-18 @OAK L 5 9 5 5 1 1 0 86 29 2007-08-17 @OAK W 9 4 2 2 1 4 1 111 74 2007-05-15 @OAK ND 6 5 2 2 3 3 0 99 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 30-39 Road: 28-40 ExtrInn: 5-6 vsRHP: 32-59 vsLHP: 26-20 1-Run: 18-18 vsEast: 14-26 vsCntrl:20-33 vsWest: 11-15 IL:13-5 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 137 Tue, Sep 2 OAK W 5-2 58-79 5th 18.5 gb 136 Sun, Aug 31 @DET L 2-4 57-79 5th 20.0 gb 135 Sat, Aug 30 @DET W 13-3 57-78 5th 19.0 gb 134 Fri, Aug 29 @DET L 3-6 56-78 5th 20.0 gb 133 Wed, Aug 27 TEX L 2-3 56-77 5th 20.0 gb 132 Tue, Aug 26 TEX L 1-2 56-76 5th 20.0 gb 131 Mon, Aug 25 TEX L 4-9 56-75 5th 19.0 gb 130 Sun, Aug 24 DET W 7-3 56-74 5th 18.0 gb 129 Sat, Aug 23 DET L 0-4 55-74 5th 19.0 gb 128 Fri, Aug 22 DET L 3-4 55-73 5th 19.0 gb Last 10: 3-7 Last 20: 5-15 Last 30:10-20
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Tue, Sep 02, 2008 KCR 5 OAK 2 W:Zack Greinke (10-9), L: Gio Gonzalez (1-3), S: Joakim Soria (34) Wed, Jul 30, 2008 KCR 4 @OAK 3 (10) W:Ramon Ramirez (2-1), L: Huston Street (2-4), S: Joakim Soria (30) Tue, Jul 29, 2008 KCR 5 @OAK 2 W:Gil Meche (9-9), L: Greg Smith (5-10), S: Joakim Soria (29) Mon, Jul 28, 2008 KCR 4 @OAK 2 W:Zack Greinke (8-7), L: Dallas Braden (2-1), S: Joakim Soria (28) Sun, Apr 20, 2008 OAK 7 KCR 1 W:Dana Eveland (2-1), L: Luke Hochevar (0-1), S: none Sat, Apr 19, 2008 OAK 6 KCR 5 W:Joey Devine (2-0), L: Joel Peralta (0-1), S: Huston Street (5) Fri, Apr 18, 2008 OAK 13 KCR 2 W:Chad Gaudin (1-1), L: Brian Bannister (3-1), S: none Sun, Aug 19, 2007 OAK 6 KCR 1 W:Lenny DiNardo (8-6), L: Kyle Davies (5-10), S: none Sat, Aug 18, 2007 KCR 7 @OAK 3 W:Odalis Perez (8-11), L: Chad Gaudin (9-9), S: none Fri, Aug 17, 2007 KCR 9 @OAK 2 W:Brian Bannister (9-7), L: Dan Meyer (0-1), S: none Season Series: 2008 - KCR leads 4-3; 2007 - KCR won 6-4; 2006 - OAK won 5-4; All-Time - OAK leads 279-232

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

TEX 5.49

FLA 4.65

SFG 3.84

RA/G

TOR 3.88

CLE 4.59

TEX 5.97

A. Pujols .361

M. DeRosa .292

J. Towles .143

OBP

A. Pujols .469

J. Reyes .365

T. Pena .188

SLG

A. Pujols .643

J. Reyes .487

T. Pena .213

OPS

A. Pujols 1.112

V. Wells .839

T. Pena .400

ERA

C. Lee 2.32

O. Perez 3.90

C. Silva 6.53

K/9IP

T. Lincecum 10.22

M. Mussina 6.42

L. Hernandez 3.35

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Oakland Athletics Batters (3.86 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (5.01 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 19.Bannister
G/S/vB 54.Fulchino
G/S/vB 41.Gobble*
G/S/vB 32.Mahay*
G/S/vB 46.Nunez
G/S/vB 57.Peralta
G/S/vB 56.Ramirez
G/S/vB 48.Soria
G/S/vB 51.Tejeda
G/S/vB 40.Wells
G/S/vB 27.Yabuta
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

10.Barton* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/4.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 440/307 .223/.315/.339/.654 .763/.607 .657 95/.759 1/1 8/

18.Bowen# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 76/49 .167/.211/.264/.474 .453/.487 .535 18/.389 0/0 1/

8.Brown G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· ··· 5/2.300 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 421/268 .247/.299/.394/.694 .836/.609 .661 71/.809 4/2 13/

7.Crosby G/S/vP 9/1.306 ··· 9/.333 7/.286 2/2.000 6/.533 3/.333 4/.500 12/.917 3/.000 2/2.000 527/375 .246/.300/.368/.667 .684/.661 .634 98/.634 6/3 7/

57.Cunningham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/5 .286/.286/.429/.714 2.500/.000 .000 7/.714 0/0 0/

32.Cust* G/S/vP 13/.795 ··· 5/2.800 3/.666 1/.000 3/1.333 2/1.000 4/.000 5/4.000 ··· 1/no AB 504/359 .228/.369/.444/.813 .815/.812 .726 78/.811 0/0 25/

38.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 178/103 .243/.267/.314/.581 .642/.537 .615 55/.782 24/6 2/

14.Ellis G/S/vP 11/.546 ··· 7/1.381 7/1.071 1/.000 9/.347 3/.000 4/.000 10/.522 ··· 1/2.000 507/357 .233/.321/.373/.694 .535/.757 .790 63/.665 14/2 12/

22.Hannahan* G/S/vP 8/.500 ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/no AB 2/.500 2/.500 4/.500 1/3.000 ··· 2/.000 445/337 .221/.301/.341/.642 .576/.663 .594 69/.529 2/0 7/

4.Patterson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 116/98 .208/.302/.277/.579 .611/.571 .643 59/.588 9/1 1/

56.Pennington# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 34/13 .161/.212/.226/.438 .513/.321 .433 34/.438 1/0 0/

24.Suzuki G/S/vP 9/.985 ··· ··· 4/.250 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 3/.333 ··· 1/no AB 505/369 .284/.348/.383/.731 .663/.755 .596 91/.747 2/3 7/

15.Sweeney* G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 341/257 .286/.336/.373/.710 .548/.763 .760 43/.556 8/1 4/

IP 155.0 12.0 24.2 58.2 38.0 50.0 63.0 58.0 36.0 35.1 31.1 TOTAL .241/.313/.365/.678 .654/.688 .667 .646 73/20 106/82

ERA-K/9

5.75/5.9

8.25/8.2

11.31/7.3

2.91/6.7

3.08/4.7

5.76/6.5

2.86/9.0

1.86/9.2

3.75/9.8

5.09/7.4

5.46/5.8

4.66/6.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Bowen (12-8-2)
Suzuki (50-28-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 684/.287 60/.314 131/.318 247/.240 168/.260 211/.266 264/.231 227/.183 148/.160 161/.275 147/.297 .269 Brown
Cust
Sweeney
Davis
Patterson
Cunningham 64/1/54/10
76/0/5/4
13/42/60/4
3/76/1/2
17/1/0/1
2/0/0/0

OPS .819 .890 .996 .662 .721 .866 .615 .540 .542 .796 .869 .760

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 339/.859 33/.889 54/.579 99/.701 78/.834 93/.928 125/.783 117/.563 70/.626 72/.725 65/.638 .780

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 345/.780 27/.892 77/1.330 148/.637 90/.623 118/.821 139/.467 110/.517 78/.460 89/.855 82/1.048 .743

Home 405/.712 25/1.220 58/1.205 121/.667 96/.814 123/.837 148/.543 106/.417 96/.658 52/.890 79/.962 .742

Last 28d days 100/1.028 28/.837 / 11/1.511 50/.802 50/.931 47/.817 31/.913 44/.495 41/.577 /

HR/SB/CS 25/6/3 1/1/0 5/2/0 5/2/2 2/1/0 15/3/1 2/3/1 5/2/1 3/6/0 3/1/2 5/4/0 144/67/19

Usage ······X· ···X···· ········ ········ ···Xo··o ········ o·X···oX o··X···· ····o··· ··o·X·X· ········

Kansas City Royals Batters (4.10 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (4.16 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 30.Eveland*
G/S/vB 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB 33.Devine
G/S/vB 41.Embree*
G/S/vB 29.Foulke
G/S/vB 44.Casilla
G/S/vB 21.Saarloos
G/S/vB 20.Street
G/S/vB 31.Ziegler
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

30.Aviles G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/2.000 331/227 .330/.360/.486/.845 1.058/.751 .784 104/.723 5/2 7/

14.Buck G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 4/1.750 2/2.500 4/.500 ··· 368/262 .220/.296/.363/.659 .774/.613 .645 63/.397 0/3 8/

16.Butler G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 416/291 .281/.329/.408/.737 1.019/.619 .753 89/.831 0/1 10/

13.Callaspo# G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 147/111 .303/.370/.341/.711 .869/.659 .607 38/.807 1/1 0/

9.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 1/.000 6/.334 ··· ··· 483/315 .288/.348/.426/.774 .654/.839 .763 84/.568 10/7 10/

2.Gathright* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 2/1.000 3/.666 2/1.500 ··· 296/222 .247/.301/.266/.567 .581/.562 .573 21/.528 21/4 0/

3.German G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 198/104 .240/.303/.331/.634 .588/.673 .681 57/.687 6/2 0/

7.Gload* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 400/298 .272/.316/.342/.658 .586/.683 .765 74/.668 3/4 3/

11.Guillen G/S/vP 3/.667 1/.000 1/.000 7/1.571 7/.286 5/.650 4/.833 4/1.500 1/.000 529/382 .248/.284/.426/.710 .951/.621 .695 95/.518 2/1 18/

21.Olivo G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/3.000 2/2.500 1/.000 1/5.000 3/.000 1/2.000 269/180 .256/.283/.457/.740 .910/.657 .646 40/.575 5/0 11/

1.Pena G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 210/144 .168/.188/.213/.400 .605/.310 .442 13/.923 3/1 1/

43.Shealy G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· 4/1 .250/.250/1.000/1.250 1.667/.000 1.250 4/1.250 0/0 1/

26.Smith* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 19/15 .211/.211/.316/.526 .500/.533 .750 18/.556 0/1 0/

24.Teahen* G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/.000 1/.000 3/3.000 ··· 1/.000 6/1.167 4/1.000 1/.000 527/366 .242/.307/.382/.689 .699/.685 .668 96/.656 3/3 12/

IP 139.0 27.2 34.2 52.1 27.0 46.0 18.1 59.2 47.2 TOTAL .262/.315/.387/.702 .767/.674 .712 .659 68/34 98/83

ERA-K/9

4.21/6.1

2.93/7.8

0.78/9.9

4.64/8.3

3.67/7.3

3.52/7.8

5.40/4.9

4.07/9.0

0.57/4.0

3.88/6.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Buck (49-8-3)
Olivo (18-11-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 609/.260 116/.200 127/.157 230/.254 116/.232 207/.295 82/.312 247/.235 177/.197 .247 Guillen
Gathright
Teahen
DeJesus
German
Smith
Gload
Callaspo 45/0/52/9
0/89/0/5
24/1/84/4
63/54/15/3
27/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
6/0/2/0
3/0/0/0

OPS .720 .612 .411 .769 .756 .800 .710 .690 .514 .705

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 141/.620 43/.344 55/.463 82/.728 57/.566 94/.788 41/.805 111/.747 85/.589 .680

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 468/.750 73/.773 72/.373 148/.792 59/.942 113/.810 41/.618 136/.645 92/.449 .722

Road 266/.779 65/.762 71/.380 105/.844 49/.992 106/.749 31/.714 108/.671 90/.574 .739

Last 28d days 54/.565 59/.769 37/.138 47/.569 5/1.067 65/.965 52/.922 41/.475 59/.675

HR/SB/CS 8/12/2 1/2/1 0/3/1 6/4/1 4/3/1 5/6/0 1/1/0 6/5/3 0/1/0 111/62/36

Usage ·····X·· ··X··oXX o····o·· ··Xo··X· ··X····· X···X·oo ····X··· ···X··X· ··o···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.

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Game Preview: OAK @ KCR, 8:10pm, Wednesday, September 3, 2008 @Kauffman Stadium

SP: Dana Eveland (24, LHP, 8-8, 4.21)

SP: Brian Bannister (27, RHP, 7-14, 5.75)

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