OAK @ TEX, Friday, May 9, 2008 Game Preview

Oakland Athletics, 22-14, 1st, Tied	SP: Greg Smith (24, LHP, 2-1, 2.54) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (2-1) 39 27 13 11 13 31 4 2.54 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-1 39 27 13 11 13 31 4 2.54 61 2008-05-04 TEX ND 6 3 1 1 2 10 1 103 70 2008-04-29 @LAA L 8 3 2 2 3 5 0 101 70 2008-04-24 MIN W 7 7 2 2 1 3 1 91 57 2008-04-19 KCR ND 5 6 4 3 1 4 2 93 44 2008-04-14 @CHW W 7 6 1 1 1 4 0 95 64 2008-04-09 @TOR ND 6 2 3 2 5 5 0 103 58 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.TEX 0-0 6 3 1 1 2 10 1 1.50 70 2008-05-04 TEX ND 6 3 1 1 2 10 1 103 70
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 12-9 Road: 10-5 ExtrInn: 3-1 vsRHP: 15-7 vsLHP: 7-7 1-Run: 7-5 vsEast: 7-3 vsCntrl:10-4 vsWest: 5-7 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 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 32 Sat, May 3 TEX L 3-6 18-14 2nd 1.0 gb 31 Fri, May 2 TEX L 3-4 18-13 1st Tied 30 Thu, May 1 @LAA W 15-8 18-12 1st Tied 29 Wed, Apr 30 @LAA L 1-6 17-12 2nd 1.0 gb 28 Tue, Apr 29 @LAA L 0-2 17-11 1st Tied 27 Mon, Apr 28 @LAA W 14-2 17-10 1st 1.0 up Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:13-7 Last 30:19-11
Texas Rangers, 16-20, 3rd, 6 GB, 2½ GB in WC	SP: Scott Feldman (25, RHP, 0-1, 5.40) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-1) 18.1 21 12 11 6 12 3 5.40 2007 (1-2) 39 44 26 25 32 19 3 5.77 2006 (0-2) 41.1 42 19 18 10 30 4 3.92 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 0-1 12.1 14 6 6 3 8 1 4.38 49 2008-05-04 @OAK L 6.1 6 3 3 1 5 1 100 53 2008-04-13 TOR ND 6 8 3 3 2 3 0 91 45 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.OAK 0-1 6.1 6 3 3 1 5 1 4.26 53 2008-05-04 @OAK L 6.1 6 3 3 1 5 1 100 53
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 6-8 Road: 10-12 ExtrInn: 2-1 vsRHP: 14-14 vsLHP: 2-6 1-Run: 5-3 vsEast: 4-8 vsCntrl: 4-5 vsWest: 8-7 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 36 Thu, May 8 @SEA W 5-0 16-20 3rd 6.0 gb 35 Wed, May 7 @SEA W 2-0 15-20 3rd 6.5 gb 34 Tue, May 6 @SEA W 10-1 14-20 3rd 7.5 gb 33 Mon, May 5 @SEA L 3-7 13-20 4th 7.5 gb 32 Sun, May 4 @OAK L 1-3 13-19 3rd 6.5 gb 31 Sat, May 3 @OAK W 6-3 13-18 3rd 5.5 gb 30 Fri, May 2 @OAK W 4-3 12-18 4th 5.5 gb 29 Thu, May 1 KCR W 2-1 11-18 4th 6.5 gb 28 Wed, Apr 30 KCR W 11-9 10-18 4th 7.5 gb 27 Tue, Apr 29 KCR L 5-9 9-18 4th 7.5 gb Last 10: 7-3 Last 20: 9-11 Last 30:13-17
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Sun, May 04, 2008 OAK 3 TEX 1 W:Santiago Casilla (1-0), L: Scott Feldman (0-1), S: Huston Street (9) Sat, May 03, 2008 TEX 6 @OAK 3 W:A.J. Murray (1-0), L: Chad Gaudin (3-2), S: Joaquin Benoit (1) Fri, May 02, 2008 TEX 4 @OAK 3 W:Vicente Padilla (4-2), L: Joe Blanton (2-5), S: C.J. Wilson (7) Sun, Sep 16, 2007 TEX 11 @OAK 9 W:John Rheinecker (3-2), L: Andrew Brown (3-3), S: Joaquin Benoit (5) Sat, Sep 15, 2007 OAK 7 TEX 3 W:Joe Blanton (14-9), L: Brandon McCarthy (5-10), S: Alan Embree (17) Fri, Sep 14, 2007 OAK 11 TEX 9 W:Andrew Brown (3-2), L: John Rheinecker (2-2), S: Huston Street (16) Thu, Sep 13, 2007 OAK 6 TEX 5 W:Chad Gaudin (11-11), L: Kevin Millwood (9-12), S: Huston Street (15) Sun, Sep 09, 2007 TEX 12 OAK 9 W:Bill White (1-0), L: Lenny DiNardo (8-9), S: none Sat, Sep 08, 2007 TEX 7 OAK 3 W:A.J. Murray (1-1), L: Chad Gaudin (10-11), S: none Fri, Sep 07, 2007 TEX 5 OAK 3 W:Edinson Volquez (2-0), L: Danny Haren (14-7), S: Joaquin Benoit (4) Season Series: 2008 - TEX leads 2-1; 2007 - TEX won 10-9; 2006 - TEX won 10-9; All-Time - OAK leads 357-348

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

ARI 5.74

TEX 4.53

SDP 3.34

RA/G

OAK 3.58

CHC 4.44

PIT 5.65

OBP

SLG

OPS

ERA

C. Lee .81

H. Kuroda 3.95

C. Sabathia 7.51

K/9IP

E. Volquez 11.06

R. Dempster 6.07

J. Garland 2.03

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Oakland Athletics Batters (4.75 RS/G) vs. Texas Rangers Pitchers (5.42 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 39.Feldman
G/S/vB 53.Benoit
G/S/vB 50.Francisco
G/S/vB 54.German
G/S/vB 18.Guardado*
G/S/vB 59.Rupe
G/S/vB 36.Wilson*
G/S/vB 45.Wright
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/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 148/107 .244/.345/.339/.683 .620/.707 .714 101/.681 0/0 1/

18.Bowen# G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· 2/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 16/13 .200/.250/.200/.450 .667/.397 .347 16/.450 0/0 0/

8.Brown G/S/vP 5/.000 4/1.500 1/3.000 7/.929 1/no AB 1/.000 4/.000 7/.572 139/93 .282/.309/.397/.706 .858/.629 .766 108/.730 1/0 3/

7.Crosby G/S/vP 5/.600 12/.523 7/.629 2/.000 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 7/.971 153/109 .252/.320/.374/.694 .834/.640 .593 110/.692 0/1 2/

32.Cust* G/S/vP 4/2.417 3/.333 4/.250 ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/.417 6/1.000 119/90 .242/.420/.407/.827 .684/.875 .826 82/.980 0/0 4/

38.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 43/22 .200/.233/.275/.508 .440/.573 .250 36/.553 5/0 0/

19.Denorfia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 58/33 .260/.339/.300/.639 .467/.777 .607 49/.664 2/0 0/

14.Ellis G/S/vP 7/.453 10/.633 6/.533 4/1.250 7/.953 2/.000 5/.200 5/1.600 163/109 .232/.321/.366/.687 .475/.793 .799 116/.620 4/2 3/

22.Hannahan* G/S/vP 3/.333 3/.000 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/2.000 100/80 .234/.390/.364/.754 .753/.754 .728 60/.882 0/0 2/

12.Murphy G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 44/17 .205/.295/.359/.654 .515/.824 .442 43/.638 1/0 2/

24.Suzuki G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.000 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.667 140/95 .283/.350/.339/.689 .579/.741 .633 99/.656 1/1 1/

5.Sweeney G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 3/.000 11/.739 10/.650 ··· ··· 8/.661 91/46 .305/.363/.439/.802 .755/.859 .815 57/.878 0/0 2/

15.Sweeney* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 87/77 .269/.326/.346/.672 .522/.691 .649 64/.587 2/0 0/

35.Thomas G/S/vP 10/1.350 20/.838 ··· 8/1.300 15/1.610 3/.667 3/.000 13/1.098 127/93 .210/.346/.343/.689 .432/.790 .701 89/.649 0/0 3/

IP 18.1 13.1 7.0 16.0 5.2 19.0 14.0 19.2 TOTAL .253/.338/.363/.701 .620/.739 .710 .708 12/4 20/27

ERA-K/9

5.40/5.9

6.08/9.5

3.86/9.0

0.56/7.9

3.18/3.2

4.74/3.8

2.57/3.9

3.66/5.9

4.80/5.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Bowen (0-0-0)
Suzuki (13-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 80/.292 66/.216 32/.269 66/.173 22/.238 79/.234 54/.125 84/.233 .279 Brown
Denorfia
Sweeney
Cust
Murphy
Davis 20/1/21/3
12/10/1/1
0/27/7/0
21/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
3/15/1/0

OPS .827 .738 .798 .543 .511 .710 .472 .642 .784

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 30/.862 33/.412 12/1.361 26/.718 13/.462 40/.855 16/.259 35/.757 .814

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 50/.805 33/1.134 20/.485 40/.424 9/.583 39/.555 38/.560 49/.561 .761

Home 55/.868 21/.619 8/1.071 18/.584 8/.661 32/.814 25/.452 41/.675 .775

Last 28d days 80/.827 50/.810 32/.798 56/.542 16/.450 70/.707 41/.554 56/.632

HR/SB/CS 3/1/0 1/0/0 1/1/1 0/0/2 0/0/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 31/22/11

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

Texas Rangers Batters (4.53 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (3.58 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 23.Smith*
G/S/vB 59.Brown
G/S/vB 33.Devine
G/S/vB 41.Embree*
G/S/vB 44.Casilla
G/S/vB 20.Street
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

41.Boggs# G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 39/30 .343/.385/.514/.899 .889/.900 1.489 39/.899 0/0 1/

21.Bradley# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 131/88 .306/.405/.495/.900 .862/.896 1.007 97/.930 0/2 4/

27.Catalanotto* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· 9/.222 2/2.000 3/.666 86/80 .260/.365/.425/.789 .750/.789 .557 68/.944 1/0 2/

6.Duran G/S/vP 2/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 42/26 .200/.263/.286/.549 .900/.348 .600 42/.549 0/0 1/

32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 161/119 .284/.342/.518/.859 .671/.924 1.000 120/.883 0/0 7/

5.Kinsler G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 ··· 6/.583 3/.667 5/.400 152/124 .291/.349/.418/.767 .505/.824 .771 110/.785 7/0 3/

15.Laird G/S/vP 2/1.000 5/.400 ··· 4/.500 2/1.000 5/.000 107/84 .268/.324/.402/.726 .729/.725 .611 79/.677 0/1 3/

30.Metcalf G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· / /// / / / /

7.Murphy* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 151/106 .265/.327/.462/.789 .662/.847 .685 115/.748 3/0 4/

25.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 29/22 .208/.345/.250/.595 .286/.703 .862 29/.595 0/0 0/

16.Shelton G/S/vP 2/.500 1/5.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 22/13 .105/.227/.263/.490 .347/.594 .222 22/.490 1/0 1/

12.Vazquez* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 63/54 .309/.377/.455/.832 .661/.857 1.137 53/.807 0/0 1/

10.Young G/S/vP 3/.666 4/1.833 1/.000 12/1.326 6/1.467 9/.666 152/122 .301/.368/.444/.812 1.079/.742 .770 111/.822 1/0 3/

IP 39.0 18.0 13.1 15.2 17.1 15.1 TOTAL .264/.338/.423/.761 .700/.780 .791 .765 14/3 38/33

ERA-K/9

2.54/7.2

2.00/7.0

0.68/10.2

2.87/8.0

0.00/10.9

4.11/9.4

3.13/6.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Laird (18-7-1)
Saltalamacchia (2-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 151/.199 73/.194 53/.200 59/.204 63/.158 65/.224 .236 Hamilton
Murphy
Boggs
Duran
Bradley
Catalanotto 0/27/6/2
13/8/22/1
10/0/1/0
2/0/1/0
1/0/6/0
17/0/0/0

OPS .580 .566 .465 .643 .415 .762 .637

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 38/.373 35/.613 18/.513 20/.794 29/.351 28/1.132 .604

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 113/.654 38/.516 35/.441 39/.566 34/.472 37/.508 .659

Road 80/.451 31/.450 29/.678 20/.911 24/.633 25/.335 .667

Last 28d days 126/.601 50/.611 43/.384 28/.220 39/.377 39/.562

HR/SB/CS 4/0/4 1/0/1 0/1/0 2/0/0 0/3/0 3/1/0 22/13/7

Usage ····X··· ·X·o·X·o ·X·o·o·· ··ooX·o· ··X·oo·o ···XX·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 @ TEX, 8:05pm, Friday, May 9, 2008 @Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

SP: Greg Smith (24, LHP, 2-1, 2.54)

SP: Scott Feldman (25, RHP, 0-1, 5.40)

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