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Game Preview: KCR @ OAK, 10:05pm, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 @McAfee Coliseum

Royals, 18-15, 1st, Tied

SP: Brian Bannister (28, RHP, 3-0, 1.48)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2009 (3-0)			24.1	18	7	4	11	14	1	1.48
2008 (9-16)			182.2	215	127	117	58	113	29	5.76
2007 (12-9)			165.0	156	76	71	44	77	15	3.87

Last 7 GS		5-1	41.1	39	17	14	15	21	3	3.05	52
2009-05-07	SEA	W	6.0	5	0	0	1	7	0	105	68
2009-05-02	@MIN	ND	5.1	8	6	3	2	4	1	94	36
2009-04-27	TOR	W	7.0	1	1	1	6	2	0	103	67
2009-04-22	@CLE	W	6.0	4	0	0	2	1	0	94	63
2008-09-24	@DET	W	6.0	7	0	0	1	4	0	102	61
2008-09-19	CHW	L	5.0	8	7	7	2	1	2	93	22
2008-09-14	@CLE	W	6.0	6	3	3	1	2	0	100	49

Last 5 v.OAK		1-1	32.0	33	15	12	11	18	2	3.38	51
2008-09-04	OAK	ND	7.0	7	4	1	2	3	1	108	54
2008-07-30	@OAK	ND	5.0	8	2	2	4	7	0	111	46
2008-04-18	@OAK	L	5.0	9	5	5	1	1	0	86	29
2007-08-17	@OAK	W	9.0	4	2	2	1	4	1	111	74
2007-05-15	@OAK	ND	6.0	5	2	2	3	3	0	99	54

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   11-6    Road:    7-9    ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:  10-9    vsLHP:   8-6    1-Run:   2-6 
 vsEast:  4-3    vsCntrl:10-7    vsWest:  4-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 33 Tue, May 12  @OAK  L   3-12      18-15  1st    Tied
 32 Sun, May 10  @LAA  L   3-4       18-14  1st    Tied
 31 Sat, May  9  @LAA  L   0-1       18-13  1st  1.0 up
 30 Fri, May  8  @LAA  L   1-4       18-12  1st  2.0 up
 29 Thu, May  7   SEA  W   3-1       18-11  1st  3.0 up
 28 Wed, May  6   SEA  W   9-1       17-11  1st  2.0 up
 27 Tue, May  5   CHW  W   8-7 (11)  16-11  1st  1.5 up
 26 Mon, May  4   CHW  W   3-0       15-11  1st  1.5 up
 25 Sun, May  3  @MIN  W   7-5       14-11  1st  0.5 up
 24 Sat, May  2  @MIN  W  10-7 (11)  13-11  1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Athletics, 12-18, 4th, 5 GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: Josh Outman (24, LHP, 0-0, 4.79)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2009 (0-0)			20.2	22	13	11	10	21	5	4.79
2008 (1-2)			25.2	34	14	13	8	19	1	4.56

Last 7 GS		0-2	35.0	45	23	20	16	31	5	5.14	44
2009-05-08	TOR	ND	4.1	6	3	3	3	5	1	101	41
2009-05-03	@SEA	ND	6.0	4	2	2	1	5	1	87	60
2009-04-17	@TOR	ND	4.0	5	5	3	4	5	2	97	37
2009-04-11	SEA	ND	4.1	6	3	3	2	3	1	75	40
2008-09-28	@SEA	L	6.0	8	4	3	1	5	0	98	46
2008-09-23	@TEX	ND	6.0	10	3	3	2	4	0	90	42
2008-09-18	LAA	L	4.1	6	3	3	3	4	0	93	40

Has never faced KCR.

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:    7-10   Road:    5-8    ExtrInn: 1-3 
 vsRHP:   9-7    vsLHP:   3-11   1-Run:   2-7 
 vsEast:  6-8    vsCntrl: 1-0    vsWest:  5-10 IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 30 Tue, May 12   KCR  W  12-3       12-18  4th  5.0 gb
 29 Sun, May 10   TOR  L   0-5       11-18  4th  5.0 gb
 28 Sat, May  9   TOR  L   4-6       11-17  4th  4.0 gb
 27 Fri, May  8   TOR  W   5-3       11-16  4th  4.0 gb
 26 Thu, May  7   TEX  W   9-4       10-16  4th  4.0 gb
 25 Wed, May  6   TEX  L   2-3        9-16  4th  5.0 gb
 24 Tue, May  5   LAA  L   3-5        9-15  4th  4.5 gb
 23 Mon, May  4   LAA  L   2-5        9-14  4th  4.5 gb
 22 Sun, May  3  @SEA  L   7-8 (15)   9-13  4th  4.5 gb
 21 Sat, May  2  @SEA  W   3-2        9-12  3rd  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 12, 2009 OAK 12  KCR  3        W:Trevor Cahill (2-2), L: Luke Hochevar (0-1), S: none

Thu, Sep 04, 2008 KCR  9  OAK  6        W:Kyle Davies (6-6), L: Dan Meyer (0-4), S: Ramon Ramirez (1)
Thu, Sep 04, 2008 KCR  5  OAK  4 (10)   W:Joakim Soria (2-3), L: Joey Devine (4-1), S: none
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
Season Series: 2009 - OAK leads 1-0; 2008 - KCR won 6-3; 2007 - KCR won 6-4; All-Time - OAK leads 280-234

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 2009 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 5.97

LAA 4.87

ARI 3.71

RA/G

LAD 3.88

SEA 4.73

WSN 6.22

OBP

SLG

OPS

ERA

Z. Greinke .51

M. Owings 4.33

G. Floyd 7.32

K/9IP

T. Lincecum 11.78

K. Davies 6.57

M. Pelfrey 2.31

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Royals Batters (4.52 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.47 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 55.Outman*
G/S/vB 49.Anderson*
G/S/vB 40.Bailey
G/S/vB 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB 53.Cahill
G/S/vB 52.Cameron
G/S/vB 45.Giese
G/S/vB 60.Gray
G/S/vB 36.Springer
G/S/vB 48.Wuertz
G/S/vB 31.Ziegler
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

30.Aviles G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 109/64 .204/.224/.282/.506 .531/.489 .436 76/.521 1/0 1/4

8.Bloomquist G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 69/27 .368/.448/.509/.957 1.141/.680 1.130 56/1.091 4/1 1/1

14.Buck G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 71/49 .219/.282/.469/.750 .739/.754 .404 55/.522 0/0 3/3

16.Butler G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 120/66 .276/.367/.419/.786 .774/.795 .513 91/.888 0/0 2/0

13.Callaspo# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 2/.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 118/77 .327/.381/.523/.905 .976/.864 .949 96/.954 0/0 2/1

2.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 146/89 .261/.382/.471/.853 .800/.888 .913 106/.813 9/2 3/3

9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 133/76 .223/.275/.355/.630 .429/.792 .578 95/.626 0/1 3/0

11.Guillen G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 ··· 2/.000 ··· 6/.334 3/.000 1/.000 82/49 .275/.390/.435/.825 .864/.793 .793 68/.903 1/0 3/0

46.Hernandez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/2 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 4/.000 0/0 0/0

17.Jacobs* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.666 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· 117/73 .257/.333/.495/.829 .570/.987 .736 88/.768 0/0 6/2

35.Maier* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 35/29 .286/.429/.357/.786 1.833/.562 .598 35/.786 2/0 0/0

21.Olivo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 2/.000 1/2.000 74/35 .229/.260/.357/.617 .829/.384 .747 53/.736 1/1 2/0

24.Teahen* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/4.000 ··· 1/.000 136/77 .300/.382/.467/.849 .737/.936 .892 100/.907 1/0 4/0

IP 20.2 28.0 21.1 4.1 39.0 8.0 19.1 0.1 14.0 17.2 13.1 TOTAL .259/.337/.422/.759 .755/.762 .724 .791 20/5 31/20

ERA-K/9

4.79/9.1

5.79/4.5

1.27/10.1

12.46/6.3

3.69/3.2

1.13/5.6

4.19/3.7

0.00/0.0

2.57/10.3

1.53/7.6

4.05/7.4

3.88/6.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 95/.259 121/.295 79/.087 23/.350 170/.269 30/.207 81/.250 1/.000 65/.276 61/.169 60/.321 .265

OPS .819 .797 .310 1.035 .862 .475 .765 .000 .718 .485 .742 .727

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 19/.474 37/.780 31/.444 9/1.681 77/1.122 11/.545 40/.814 / 25/1.192 22/.465 27/.879 .821

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 76/.912 84/.805 48/.219 14/.607 93/.653 19/.433 41/.720 1/.000 40/.456 39/.495 33/.636 .680

Home 44/.899 75/.772 31/.136 23/1.035 94/.854 21/.429 49/.910 1/.000 32/.476 32/.127 41/.826

Last 28d days 74/.809 69/.883 56/.360 16/.688 120/.962 30/.475 81/.765 1/.000 49/.799 44/.561 34/.789

HR/SB/CS 5/0/0 4/1/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 6/4/4 0/1/1 4/2/0 0/0/0 2/2/0 1/0/2 0/0/0 30/15/8

Usage ····X··· ········ ····Xoo· o··X···· X····X·· o··X·X·X X·····X· ··o····· ····X·o· ··o·X·o· ··X··o·o

Athletics Batters (4.43 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.97 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 19.Bannister
G/S/vB 37.Cruz
G/S/vB 40.Farnsworth
G/S/vB 32.Mahay*
G/S/vB 52.Ramirez*
G/S/vB 51.Tejeda
G/S/vB 34.Wright
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

6.Buck* G/S/vP 5/.600 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 9/1.158 4/1.750 68/60 .213/.294/.279/.573 .250/.619 .731 45/.576 1/1 1/0

18.Cabrera G/S/vP 12/.606 8/.250 15/.934 4/.500 25/.507 16/.544 23/.260 141/85 .238/.290/.270/.560 .391/.666 .636 99/.510 1/3 0/4

7.Crosby G/S/vP 13/1.045 ··· 4/1.250 7/.286 ··· 12/.917 10/.650 76/44 .262/.387/.377/.764 .721/.795 .775 63/.851 1/0 0/4

32.Cust* G/S/vP 17/.797 2/.000 1/.000 5/.650 3/1.334 5/4.000 9/.756 127/73 .290/.402/.467/.869 .740/.966 .861 88/.792 1/0 5/1

11.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 29/9 .192/.276/.192/.468 .522/.347 .182 18/.656 3/2 0/0

16.Giambi* G/S/vP 6/1.917 2/1.000 1/no AB 11/.273 9/.111 4/.500 6/.750 121/68 .212/.347/.354/.701 .821/.594 .840 84/.657 0/0 3/2

22.Hannahan* G/S/vP 11/.546 ··· 2/.000 3/1.167 1/2.000 2/1.500 6/1.100 27/22 .167/.231/.417/.647 .000/.812 .819 27/.647 0/0 1/0

5.Holliday G/S/vP 6/1.133 9/1.556 1/.000 1/no AB 6/1.000 5/1.350 7/1.262 129/76 .237/.302/.390/.692 .531/.803 .735 95/.652 0/0 4/0

29.Kennedy* G/S/vP 9/.777 1/no AB 2/1.000 9/.819 4/.000 10/.944 3/3.500 12/4 .182/.250/.182/.432 .500/.250 .432 12/.432 0/0 0/0

35.Powell# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 33/22 .172/.242/.276/.518 .182/.673 .357 26/.458 0/0 0/2

8.Suzuki G/S/vP 12/1.027 ··· 2/1.000 5/.900 5/1.400 4/1.000 6/.333 123/71 .325/.366/.482/.848 .745/.924 .784 88/.960 1/1 2/1

15.Sweeney* G/S/vP 10/.600 1/.000 1/.000 3/.333 2/.000 1/3.000 3/.000 138/83 .254/.312/.349/.661 .564/.718 .496 94/.707 2/2 2/1

IP 24.1 14.1 11.1 11.0 12.2 11.2 19.2 TOTAL .240/.314/.347/.660 .575/.717 .668 .665 12/10 19/21

ERA-K/9

1.48/5.2

1.88/6.9

5.56/8.8

4.09/12.3

7.11/6.4

1.54/13.1

1.83/6.4

3.67/7.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 101/.205 56/.149 49/.267 52/.319 59/.333 52/.179 72/.227 .252

OPS .558 .520 .749 .876 .964 .596 .630 .697

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 51/.698 25/.513 22/.577 22/.844 30/.611 28/.452 33/.574 .661

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 50/.420 31/.523 27/.887 30/.895 29/1.357 24/.697 39/.676 .731

Road 51/.689 24/.611 24/.879 25/.925 26/.724 15/.500 29/.591

Last 28d days 101/.558 41/.678 32/.550 40/.916 34/.730 38/.705 59/.718

HR/SB/CS 1/3/0 1/1/1 2/1/1 1/0/0 2/1/0 0/2/0 2/1/1 23/24/5

Usage ·····X·· ··X··X·X o···X·X· X···oo·X X·····o· o······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.