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Game Preview: TBR @ OAK, 10:05pm, Friday, May 7, 2010 @McAfee Coliseum

Rays, 21-7, 21-71st, 1½ up

SP: David Price (24, LHP, 3-1, 2.34)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (3-1) 34.2 25 9 9 10 27 2 2.34
2009 (10-7) 128.1 119 72 63 54 102 17 4.42
2008 (0-0) 14.0 9 4 3 4 12 1 1.93
Last 7 GS 4-1 46.2 33 15 15 14 36 3 2.89 60
2010-05-01 KCR ND 6.0 4 2 2 1 1 0 107 56
2010-04-25 TOR W 9.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 108 87
2010-04-20 @CHW L 5.0 6 3 3 3 3 1 93 43
2010-04-14 @BAL W 7.0 4 1 1 2 7 1 109 70
2010-04-09 NYY W 7.2 7 3 3 3 7 0 111 57
2009-10-02 NYY W 7.0 2 1 1 2 5 0 103 72
2009-09-27 @TEX ND 5.0 6 5 5 2 4 1 94 37
Has never faced OAK as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-6    Road:   12-1    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  13-3    vsLHP:   8-4    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast: 12-4    vsCntrl: 4-3    vsWest:  5-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 28 Thu, May  6  @SEA  W   8-0       21-7   1st  1.5 up
 27 Wed, May  5  @SEA  W   8-3       20-7   1st  1.0 up
 26 Tue, May  4  @SEA  W   5-2       19-7   1st  1.0 up
 25 Sun, May  2   KCR  W   1-0       18-7   1st  1.5 up
 24 Sat, May  1   KCR  L   2-4 (11)  17-7   1st  1.5 up
 23 Fri, Apr 30   KCR  L   2-3       17-6   1st  1.5 up
 22 Thu, Apr 29   KCR  W  11-1       17-5   1st  2.5 up
 21 Wed, Apr 28   OAK  W  10-3       16-5   1st  2.5 up
 20 Tue, Apr 27   OAK  W   8-6       15-5   1st  2.5 up
 19 Sun, Apr 25   TOR  W   6-0       14-5   1st  1.5 up
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:16-4    Last 30:21-7
Athletics, 15-14, 15-141st, Tied

SP: Gio Gonzalez (24, LHP, 3-1, 3.45)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (3-1) 28.2 23 11 11 14 27 1 3.45
2009 (6-7) 98.2 113 68 63 56 109 14 5.75
2008 (1-4) 34.0 32 34 29 25 34 9 7.68
Last 7 GS 4-2 41.0 35 15 15 15 44 2 3.29 56
2010-05-01 @TOR W 6.2 3 2 2 2 8 0 103 66
2010-04-25 CLE W 7.0 5 0 0 2 3 0 100 68
2010-04-20 NYY L 4.1 3 5 5 5 5 0 97 37
2010-04-14 @SEA ND 4.2 6 2 2 4 5 0 98 45
2010-04-09 @LAA W 6.0 6 2 2 1 6 1 95 57
2009-10-02 LAA L 6.0 8 4 4 0 10 1 100 50
2009-09-25 @LAA W 6.1 4 0 0 1 7 0 96 71
Last 5 v.TBR 1-0 5.0 5 1 1 4 5 0 1.80 54
2008-08-12 TBR W 5.0 5 1 1 4 5 0 105 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-6    Road:    4-8    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:  10-11   vsLHP:   5-3    1-Run:   5-1 
 vsEast:  5-8    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest:  8-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 29 Wed, May  5   TEX  W   4-1       15-14  1st  0.5 up
 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Apr 28, 2010 TBR 10  OAK  3        W:James Shields (3-0), L: Dallas Braden (3-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 27, 2010 TBR  8  OAK  6        W:Wade Davis (2-1), L: Ben Sheets (1-2), S: Rafael Soriano (5)

Sun, Jul 12, 2009 OAK  7 @TBR  3        W:Michael Wuertz (5-1), L: Dan Wheeler (3-2), S: Andrew Bailey (10)
Sat, Jul 11, 2009 OAK  7 @TBR  2        W:Dallas Braden (7-7), L: Matt Garza (6-7), S: none
Fri, Jul 10, 2009 TBR  6  OAK  0        W:Jeff Niemann (8-4), L: Vin Mazzaro (2-5), S: none
Thu, May 21, 2009 TBR  6  OAK  5        W:Joe Nelson (1-0), L: Brad Ziegler (0-1), S: none
Wed, May 20, 2009 OAK  7 @TBR  6        W:Brett Anderson (1-4), L: Scott Kazmir (4-4), S: Brad Ziegler (5)
Tue, May 19, 2009 OAK  4 @TBR  1 (11)   W:Santiago Casilla (1-1), L: Dan Wheeler (1-1), S: none
Mon, May 18, 2009 TBR 13  OAK  4        W:Jeff Niemann (4-3), L: Sean Gallagher (1-2), S: none
Sun, Apr 26, 2009 OAK  7  TBR  1        W:Dana Eveland (1-1), L: Andy Sonnanstine (0-3), S: none
Season Series: 2010 - TBR leads 2-0; 2009 - OAK won 6-4; 2008 - TBR won 6-3; All-Time - OAK leads 72-43

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  6.00

SDP  4.46

HOU  2.86

 RA/G

SFG  3.00

DET  4.66

PIT  6.43

 BA

  

  

  

 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

U. Jimenez  .87

J. Lester  3.93

E. Jackson  8.07

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  11.91

B. Myers  6.53

N. Blackburn  2.48

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

Rays Batters (6.00 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.21 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Gonzalez*
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
94.Aybar# G/S/vP 5/.800 2/2.000 2/.000 4/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 7/.000 2/.000 37/15 .306/.324/.528/.852 .773/.971 .667 33/.802 0/0 2/0
8.Bartlett G/S/vP 5/2.750 5/.000 2/1.000 3/.333 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.334 3/2.000 2/.000 121/75 .261/.322/.360/.683 .645/.706 .631 102/.655 2/2 0/4
15.Brignac* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· 58/52 .273/.310/.436/.747 .333/.796 .733 54/.690 0/1 2/2
5.Burrell G/S/vP 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· 21/1.476 10/.633 2/1.000 81/58 .229/.321/.386/.707 .227/.889 .715 69/.729 0/0 2/0
13.Crawford* G/S/vP 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 8/.393 1/.000 5/.650 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 122/70 .343/.408/.571/.980 .836/1.075 1.141 104/1.037 7/4 3/0
37.Johnson# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
20.Joyce* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 / /// / / / /
19.Kapler G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 40/8 .229/.325/.343/.668 .758/.250 .547 38/.669 1/0 1/0
3.Longoria G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 3/.666 ··· 2/1.500 4/.000 4/.833 123/77 .349/.407/.624/1.030 1.023/1.035 .851 107/1.003 4/2 7/5
30.Navarro# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 4/.250 1/3.000 6/.500 ··· 4/2.500 ··· ··· 4/.000 5/.600 62/38 .164/.246/.218/.464 .461/.465 .386 53/.403 0/0 0/1
23.Pena* G/S/vP 6/.533 2/.500 4/.000 4/.500 2/.500 9/1.158 1/5.000 4/.000 ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 5/.600 118/75 .204/.331/.398/.728 .657/.770 .814 102/.707 1/1 5/2
1.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 50/37 .200/.260/.289/.549 .692/.493 .720 41/.574 0/1 1/0
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 9/3 .250/.333/.375/.708 1.100/.000 3/.667 0/0 0/0
2.Upton G/S/vP 5/.400 4/.500 2/no AB 1/no AB 2/.500 9/.222 1/.000 6/.333 ··· 2/2.000 3/.333 7/.619 113/74 .240/.327/.430/.757 .814/.729 .967 97/.761 6/2 4/0
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 5/1.267 3/2.667 3/1.000 1/3.000 ··· 4/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 2/.000 7/.453 124/76 .259/.336/.361/.697 .616/.751 .656 107/.659 5/0 0/0
IP 28.2 10.2 12.0 10.1 28.0 8.1 10.0 30.1 1.1 13.2 TOTAL .264/.343/.429/.772 .718/.804 .770 .762 26/13 28/17
ERA-K/9 3.45/8.5 0.00/5.0 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 2.63/6.6 3.96/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Navarro (7-3-0)
 Shoppach (3-1-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 121/.215 40/.179 53/.229 46/.268 / 116/.255 32/.219 47/.194 / 142/.339 6/.333 53/.159 .251  Crawford
 Zobrist
 Upton
 Kapler
 Rodriguez
28/0/0/4
0/1/23/2
0/28/0/0
3/0/12/0
1/2/0/0
OPS .586 .431 .739 .860 .699 .688 .611 1.070 .667 .510 .720
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 39/.615 19/.368 20/.411 21/.702 / 62/.633 13/.538 18/.619 / 81/.883 3/.667 18/.690 .636
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 82/.571 21/.488 33/.950 25/.996 / 54/.770 19/.789 29/.596 / 61/1.287 3/.667 35/.424 .773
Home 48/.556 30/.577 35/.734 25/.882 / 73/.714 8/.250 27/.567 / 70/.752 6/.667 35/.395
Last 28d days 97/.547 30/.333 37/.770 40/.918 / 91/.667 32/.688 32/.617 / 122/1.089 6/.667 43/.549
HR/SB/CS 1/0/1 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 28/11/9
Usage ·····X·· ·Xo··o·o ··oo···X ··X·o··X ·······X ····X··· ········ ····X··· ··X····· ·oo··o·X
Athletics Batters (4.34 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.04 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 14.Price*
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 31.Cormier
G/S/vB		 54.Ekstrom
G/S/vB		 39.Howell*
G/S/vB		 21.Sonnanstine
G/S/vB		 29.Soriano
G/S/vB		 35.Wheeler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 125/89 .292/.430/.427/.857 .902/.839 .957 102/.798 0/1 1/6
6.Buck* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 38/31 .219/.324/.375/.699 .714/.693 .849 18/.694 1/0 1/0
3.Chavez* G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.600 ··· ··· 2/1.500 2/1.000 7/1.762 1/no AB 91/82 .220/.275/.305/.580 .361/.603 .550 72/.620 0/0 0/0
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· 11/.455 ··· 6/.334 ··· 7/.714 11/.764 1/.000 2/.500 / /// / / / /
32.Cust* G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 ··· 6/.000 ··· 2/.000 14/.703 ··· 4/1.500 / /// / / / /
11.Davis G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 110/78 .243/.291/.301/.592 .634/.575 .581 86/.495 12/1 1/1
14.Ellis G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 ··· 3/1.666 ··· 3/2.667 7/.858 6/.334 6/.567 34/28 .323/.382/.387/.769 .833/.753 .894 11/.455 0/0 0/0
50.Fox G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 54/27 .200/.241/.320/.561 .813/.308 .539 51/.595 0/0 1/1
28.Gross* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 46/34 .233/.261/.279/.540 .614/.515 .725 45/.552 0/0 0/0
5.Kouzmanoff G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.250 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 117/88 .278/.316/.370/.687 .718/.676 .684 93/.703 0/0 2/4
1.Patterson* G/S/vP ··· 2/3.000 ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 53/39 .216/.245/.431/.677 .286/.823 .986 53/.677 2/0 2/1
26.Pennington# G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 113/85 .263/.342/.424/.767 .630/.813 .684 93/.697 4/0 3/3
35.Powell# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 19/16 .067/.263/.067/.330 .333/.327 .250 19/.330 0/0 0/0
7.Rosales G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/5.000 ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· 85/61 .286/.333/.403/.736 .611/.782 .414 85/.736 0/0 2/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 ··· 5/1.100 ··· 3/2.000 12/1.536 ··· 4/.500 67/51 .254/.343/.508/.852 1.045/.794 1.105 44/.854 0/0 4/2
21.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 9/.708 1/.000 1/.000 115/86 .291/.348/.379/.726 .572/.769 .769 91/.758 0/1 1/0
IP 34.2 13.1 7.2 10.2 6.1 13.1 12.0 8.2 TOTAL .253/.320/.371/.692 .684/.694 .718 .669 19/3 19/21
ERA-K/9 2.34/7.0 2.03/8.8 8.22/9.4 4.22/2.5 8.53/5.7 /0.0 2.70/4.1 2.25/8.2 2.08/7.2 2.84/7.4

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 137/.198 52/.200 35/.294 47/.262 32/.292 / 53/.196 48/.238 33/.133 .219  Gross
 Sweeney
 Davis
 Patterson
 Fox
 Buck
10/4/5/1
0/0/27/1
0/28/0/0
13/1/0/0
2/0/0/0
10/0/0/0
OPS .591 .571 .844 .698 .771 .697 .693 .479 .654
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 37/.508 21/.736 26/.462 31/.680 15/.739 / 25/.671 19/.702 7/.619 .682
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 100/.622 31/.460 9/2.028 16/.732 17/.796 / 28/.714 29/.683 26/.442 .627
Road 50/.783 25/.501 4/1.250 17/.353 13/.671 / 20/.311 19/.563 14/.702
Last 28d days 104/.566 44/.584 30/.920 44/.748 24/.750 / 38/.590 37/.583 26/.442
HR/SB/CS 2/1/1 1/0/0 2/0/0 0/3/0 0/0/0 // 4/1/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 28/13/4
Usage ·····X·· ·X···o·X ····ooo· ·····X·· ········ X······· ··o·XoX· ····oo·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.