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Game Preview: TEX @ OAK, 3:35pm, Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @McAfee Coliseum

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Rangers, 14-13, 14-131st, ½ up

SP: Colby Lewis (30, RHP, 3-0, 2.76)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (3-0) 32.2 23 10 10 13 38 2 2.76
2007 (0-2) 37.2 44 28 27 14 23 7 6.45
2006 (0-0) 3.0 8 1 1 1 5 1 3.00
Last 7 GS 3-2 41.0 38 23 23 19 43 4 5.05 51
2010-04-30 @SEA ND 9.0 3 0 0 1 10 0 116 90
2010-04-25 DET W 6.1 7 4 4 2 10 1 106 51
2010-04-20 @BOS ND 5.0 5 3 3 2 5 1 105 48
2010-04-14 @CLE W 5.1 3 2 2 4 10 0 117 60
2010-04-09 SEA W 7.0 5 1 1 4 3 0 103 62
2007-05-22 @CHW L 3.1 12 10 10 2 0 2 77 -6
2004-04-17 @SEA L 5.0 3 3 3 4 5 0 95 50
Last 5 v.OAK 2-0 20.1 19 9 9 22 14 2 3.98 47
2004-04-07 @OAK W 5.1 5 1 1 4 5 1 105 55
2003-04-20 @OAK W 6.0 4 1 1 4 3 0 93 59
2003-04-10 OAK ND 3.2 4 4 4 8 1 1 103 30
2002-09-21 @OAK ND 5.1 6 3 3 6 5 0 102 43
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-6    Road:    7-7    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  10-7    vsLHP:   4-6    1-Run:   3-5 
 vsEast:  2-7    vsCntrl: 6-4    vsWest:  6-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 27 Tue, May  4  @OAK  L   6-7       14-13  1st  0.5 up
 26 Mon, May  3  @OAK  W   4-2       14-12  1st  1.5 up
 25 Sun, May  2  @SEA  W   3-1 (11)  13-12  1st  0.5 up
 24 Sat, May  1  @SEA  W   6-3       12-12  2nd  0.5 gb
 23 Fri, Apr 30  @SEA  W   2-0 (12)  11-12  3rd  0.5 gb
 22 Thu, Apr 29   CHW  L   5-7       10-12  4th  1.5 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 28   CHW  W   6-5       10-11  4th  1.5 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 27   CHW  W   4-2        9-11  4th  2.5 gb
 19 Mon, Apr 26   DET  L   6-8        8-11  4th  3.5 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 25   DET  W   8-4        8-10  4th  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-13
Athletics, 14-14, 14-142nd, ½ GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Trevor Cahill (22, RHP, 0-1, 10.80)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (0-1) 5.0 7 8 6 1 3 3 10.80
2009 (10-13) 178.2 185 99 92 72 90 27 4.63
Last 7 GS 4-2 37.1 35 21 19 13 19 5 4.58 48
2010-04-30 @TOR L 5.0 7 8 6 1 3 3 81 27
2009-09-29 @SEA L 4.2 8 6 6 2 1 1 87 23
2009-09-22 TEX W 5.2 6 1 1 2 1 0 79 52
2009-09-16 @TEX W 7.0 1 0 0 2 7 0 94 80
2009-09-09 @CHW ND 3.0 5 3 3 2 2 0 74 37
2009-09-02 KCR W 5.0 6 3 3 2 3 1 84 44
2009-08-27 @LAA W 7.0 2 0 0 2 2 0 98 73
Last 5 v.TEX 3-1 25.2 20 7 7 6 18 3 2.45 60
2009-09-22 TEX W 5.2 6 1 1 2 1 0 79 52
2009-09-16 @TEX W 7.0 1 0 0 2 7 0 94 80
2009-08-06 TEX L 6.0 8 5 5 2 6 2 100 40
2009-05-07 TEX W 7.0 5 1 1 0 4 1 97 67
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-6    Road:    4-8    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   9-11   vsLHP:   5-3    1-Run:   5-1 
 vsEast:  5-8    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest:  7-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 28 Tue, May  4   TEX  W   7-6       14-14  2nd  0.5 gb
 27 Mon, May  3   TEX  L   2-4       13-14  2nd  1.5 gb
 26 Sun, May  2  @TOR  L   3-9       13-13  2nd  0.5 gb
 25 Sat, May  1  @TOR  W   4-3       13-12  1st  0.5 up
 24 Fri, Apr 30  @TOR  L   2-10      12-12  1st    Tied
 23 Thu, Apr 29  @TOR  L   3-6       12-11  1st    Tied
 22 Wed, Apr 28  @TBR  L   3-10      12-10  1st  0.5 up
 21 Tue, Apr 27  @TBR  L   6-8       12-9   1st  1.5 up
 20 Sun, Apr 25   CLE  W  11-0       12-8   1st  2.0 up
 19 Sat, Apr 24   CLE  L   1-6       11-8   1st  1.5 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:14-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 04, 2010 OAK  7  TEX  6        W:Brad Ziegler (1-2), L: Scott Feldman (1-3), S: Andrew Bailey (4)
Mon, May 03, 2010 TEX  4 @OAK  2        W:Rich Harden (2-1), L: Dallas Braden (3-2), S: Neftali Feliz (6)

Thu, Sep 24, 2009 OAK 12  TEX  3        W:Brett Anderson (11-10), L: Scott Feldman (17-6), S: none
Wed, Sep 23, 2009 TEX  9 @OAK  8        W:Tommy Hunter (9-4), L: Clayton Mortenson (2-3), S: Frank Francisco (24)
Tue, Sep 22, 2009 OAK  9  TEX  1        W:Trevor Cahill (10-12), L: Brandon McCarthy (7-4), S: none
Mon, Sep 21, 2009 TEX 10 @OAK  3        W:Kevin Millwood (11-10), L: Edgar Gonzalez (0-3), S: none
Wed, Sep 16, 2009 OAK  4 @TEX  0        W:Trevor Cahill (9-12), L: Dustin Nippert (5-3), S: none
Tue, Sep 15, 2009 OAK  6 @TEX  1        W:Craig Breslow (7-7), L: Brandon McCarthy (7-3), S: none
Mon, Sep 14, 2009 OAK  9 @TEX  0        W:Brett Tomko (5-3), L: Scott Feldman (16-5), S: none
Thu, Aug 06, 2009 TEX  6 @OAK  4        W:Tommy Hunter (4-2), L: Trevor Cahill (6-11), S: C.J. Wilson (14)
Season Series: 2010 - Tied 1-1; 2009 - OAK won 11-8; 2008 - TEX won 12-7; All-Time - OAK leads 375-367

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 2010 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

TBR  5.85

TEX  4.48

HOU  2.81

 RA/G

STL  3.00

DET  4.64

PIT  6.81

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 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

U. Jimenez  .87

R. Wolf  3.86

E. Jackson  8.07

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  11.91

S. Baker  6.63

N. Blackburn  2.48

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Rangers Batters (4.48 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.32 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 53.Cahill
G/S/vB		 40.Bailey
G/S/vB		 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 56.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 33.Devine
G/S/vB		 58.Duchscherer
G/S/vB		 39.Kilby*
G/S/vB		 59.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 63.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 15.Sheets
G/S/vB		 48.Wuertz
G/S/vB		 31.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 9/.222 8/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 4/.833 109/76 .287/.410/.345/.754 .588/.831 .910 102/.791 10/3 0/4
14.Arias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 54/41 .321/.333/.377/.711 .846/.667 .613 51/.753 1/0 0/1
3.Blanco# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 37/19 .212/.278/.212/.490 .369/.594 .368 35/.520 0/1 0/1
29.Borbon* G/S/vP 6/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.500 84/61 .188/.207/.238/.445 .186/.533 .470 76/.494 4/0 0/0
17.Cruz G/S/vP 8/.125 4/.833 4/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.833 6/.334 74/50 .323/.419/.758/1.177 1.117/1.206 .976 66/1.082 5/0 7/0
19.Davis* G/S/vP 7/1.000 2/.000 3/1.000 4/.000 2/1.000 3/2.667 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 3/.666 53/41 .188/.264/.292/.556 .167/.678 .536 45/.559 0/0 0/1
25.Garko G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 6/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 30/10 .074/.138/.074/.212 .206/.222 .053 29/.220 0/0 0/0
27.Guerrero G/S/vP 6/.900 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 16/.976 1/.000 5/1.600 ··· 19/.977 2/1.000 9/.762 107/69 .337/.383/.480/.863 1.047/.761 .570 99/.803 3/2 3/0
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/2.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 6/1.333 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.666 112/73 .283/.366/.505/.871 .572/1.028 .791 104/.928 1/1 4/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 8/.250 2/.500 2/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 9/.444 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 3/.000 5/.650 5/.800 23/17 .300/.391/.350/.741 1.167/.567 .741 23/.741 0/0 0/0
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 12/.583 3/.000 6/.000 4/.000 1/.000 6/.334 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 4/.000 2/3.000 56/40 .163/.204/.306/.510 .375/.570 .431 55/.520 0/1 1/1
21.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.833 1/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 3/2.500 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 1/2.000 5/5 .200/.200/.200/.400 /.400 / 0/0 0/0
2.Teagarden G/S/vP 5/.200 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 33/20 .037/.188/.037/.225 .322/.158 .167 30/.212 0/0 0/2
10.Young G/S/vP 6/2.167 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 24/1.196 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 4/1.750 5/.600 122/82 .263/.295/.351/.646 .859/.543 .621 114/.653 1/0 2/5
IP 5.0 9.2 12.0 10.1 28.0 8.1 10.0 30.1 1.1 12.2 TOTAL .248/.317/.369/.686 .628/.716 .622 .692 26/8 20/20
ERA-K/9 10.80/5.4 0.00/5.6 3.75/9.0 4.35/9.6 /0.0 2.89/5.8 2.16/8.7 4.50/8.1 /0.0 7.12/4.8 0.00/6.9 2.84/6.4 4.11/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Saltalamacchia (1-0-0)
 Teagarden (4-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 24/.304 37/.194 53/.229 46/.268 / 116/.255 32/.219 47/.194 / 142/.339 6/.333 50/.171 .251  Hamilton
 Murphy
 Borbon
 Cruz
 Guerrero
23/4/0/2
6/0/12/2
0/23/0/1
0/0/17/1
0/0/3/0
OPS 1.029 .466 .739 .860 .699 .688 .611 1.070 .667 .544 .725
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 11/.473 17/.412 20/.411 21/.702 / 62/.633 13/.538 18/.619 / 81/.883 3/.667 17/.738 .642
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 13/1.462 20/.513 33/.950 25/.996 / 54/.770 19/.789 29/.596 / 61/1.287 3/.667 33/.451 .777
Home / 27/.642 35/.734 25/.882 / 73/.714 8/.250 27/.567 / 70/.752 6/.667 32/.435
Last 28d days 24/1.029 30/.441 42/.835 42/.871 / 91/.667 32/.688 44/.660 / 122/1.089 6/.667 40/.594
HR/SB/CS 3/0/0 0/1/0 2/0/0 2/1/1 // 3/1/0 2/0/0 1/0/0 // 6/5/5 0/0/0 1/1/0 28/11/8
Usage ····X··· o··o·o·· oo···X·o X·o··X·X ·····X·· ··X···X· ········ ··X····X X······· o··o·X·o
Athletics Batters (4.36 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.15 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Lewis
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 50.Francisco
G/S/vB		 60.Madrigal
G/S/vB		 52.Mathis
G/S/vB		 46.Mendoza
G/S/vB		 58.Moscoso
G/S/vB		 57.Nippert
G/S/vB		 56.O'Day
G/S/vB		 28.Oliver*
G/S/vB		 49.Ray
G/S/vB		 36.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 9/.333 3/.666 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 8/.804 5/.800 7/1.143 ··· 5/.600 121/86 .280/.419/.409/.827 .864/.813 .910 108/.858 0/1 1/6
6.Buck* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.667 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 5/1.850 1/2.000 4/.500 1/.000 4/.250 38/31 .219/.324/.375/.699 .714/.693 .849 26/.653 1/0 1/0
3.Chavez* G/S/vP 14/.297 ··· 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 16/.775 2/.000 10/1.357 88/79 .228/.284/.316/.601 .361/.628 .581 78/.656 0/0 0/0
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.750 2/.500 ··· 4/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· 6/.900 2/.000 3/1.000 / /// / / / /
32.Cust* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 9/.958 4/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 11/1.031 4/.250 8/1.042 1/.000 10/.675 / /// / / / /
11.Davis G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 3/.333 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 6/1.300 2/1.500 4/.500 1/.000 4/1.500 107/76 .240/.290/.300/.590 .587/.591 .577 93/.558 11/1 1/1
14.Ellis G/S/vP 10/1.071 2/.500 12/.705 2/2.500 2/1.000 1/3.000 ··· 6/.000 5/.000 11/.455 4/.250 9/.347 34/28 .323/.382/.387/.769 .833/.753 .894 20/.668 0/0 0/0
50.Fox G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/27 .204/.245/.327/.572 .846/.308 .561 50/.608 0/0 1/1
28.Gross* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 4/.500 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 5/2.000 3/1.334 4/.833 2/.000 2/.000 46/34 .233/.261/.279/.540 .614/.515 .725 46/.540 0/0 0/0
5.Kouzmanoff G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/5.000 1/3.000 ··· 113/85 .276/.310/.371/.681 .693/.677 .674 99/.673 0/0 2/3
1.Patterson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 9/.222 3/.666 4/.833 ··· 2/.500 49/35 .208/.224/.375/.599 .286/.728 .842 49/.599 1/0 1/1
26.Pennington# G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 6/.900 2/3.000 2/1.000 2/1.500 1/.000 11/.182 5/.400 5/.200 1/.000 1/.000 109/82 .260/.343/.427/.770 .630/.820 .685 98/.751 4/0 3/3
35.Powell# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 15/12 .083/.267/.083/.350 .333/.350 .250 15/.350 0/0 0/0
7.Rosales G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 81/57 .288/.338/.411/.748 .611/.802 .406 81/.748 0/0 2/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 8/.250 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 7/1.381 5/.200 8/.500 ··· 4/.250 67/51 .254/.343/.508/.852 1.045/.794 1.105 53/.739 0/0 4/2
21.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 5/.800 3/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 3/1.667 13/.154 2/1.000 10/.900 ··· 5/1.467 111/83 .303/.360/.394/.754 .595/.797 .817 97/.778 0/1 1/0
IP 32.2 13.2 11.1 13.0 4.0 15.0 8.2 13.0 11.2 32.2 TOTAL .254/.320/.371/.692 .677/.697 .719 .684 17/3 18/20
ERA-K/9 2.76/10.5 4.61/10.5 7.15/8.0 /0.0 4.15/4.8 22.50/2.2 /0.0 3.60/8.4 0.00/1.0 2.08/9.0 1.54/3.8 1.65/6.9 3.57/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Fox (1-1-0)
 Powell (3-2-0)
 Suzuki (6-5-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 133/.195 55/.231 56/.333 / 56/.320 25/.455 / 65/.218 35/.276 48/.222 46/.150 136/.218 .242  Sweeney
 Gross
 Patterson
 Fox
 Buck
 Davis
0/0/26/1
10/4/5/1
12/1/0/0
2/0/0/0
10/0/0/0
0/27/0/0
OPS .582 .715 .959 .933 1.656 .775 .663 .693 .561 .568 .713
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 76/.601 27/.308 24/1.000 / 25/.572 8/1.357 / 32/.735 10/1.056 21/.488 22/.608 32/.291 .682
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 57/.557 28/1.097 32/.927 / 31/1.253 17/1.796 / 33/.803 25/.492 27/.856 24/.502 104/.656 .736
Road 78/.488 23/.043 27/.912 / 25/1.052 10/1.375 / 29/.803 22/.511 34/.837 25/.470 83/.561
Last 28d days 133/.582 50/.628 52/1.001 / 56/.933 25/1.656 / 52/.762 29/.637 43/.654 42/.508 136/.568
HR/SB/CS 2/0/1 2/0/0 2/1/1 // 3/1/1 4/0/0 // 3/4/0 0/0/0 2/1/1 1/2/0 0/3/2 27/17/8
Usage ····X··· ·Xo·o·X· ·X·Xo··o ·····X·· ········ ··X··X·X ·X·ooo·· ··X·o·X· o·oX··o· ··X····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.