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Game Preview: OAK @ TEX, 8:05pm, Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Athletics, 17-15, 17-152nd, 1 GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: Trevor Cahill (22, RHP, 1-1, 5.40)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (1-1) 10.0 12 9 6 4 7 3 5.40
2009 (10-13) 178.2 185 99 92 72 90 27 4.63
Last 7 GS 4-2 35.1 38 22 19 14 21 5 4.84 46
2010-05-05 TEX W 5.0 5 1 0 3 4 0 90 56
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
Last 5 v.TEX 4-1 30.2 25 8 7 9 22 3 2.05 59
2010-05-05 TEX W 5.0 5 1 0 3 4 0 90 56
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:   13-7    Road:    4-8    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:  12-11   vsLHP:   5-4    1-Run:   5-1 
 vsEast:  7-9    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest:  8-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 32 Sun, May  9   TBR  W   4-0       17-15  2nd  1.0 gb
 31 Sat, May  8   TBR  W   4-2       16-15  2nd  1.0 gb
 30 Fri, May  7   TBR  L   1-4       15-15  2nd  1.0 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:16-14
Rangers, 18-14, 18-141st, 1 up

SP: Colby Lewis (30, RHP, 3-1, 3.03)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (3-1) 38.2 28 13 13 16 44 3 3.03
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 42.0 40 23 23 18 44 5 4.93 51
2010-05-05 @OAK L 6.0 5 3 3 3 6 1 105 53
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
Last 5 v.OAK 2-1 26.1 24 12 12 25 20 3 4.10 48
2010-05-05 @OAK L 6.0 5 3 3 3 6 1 105 53
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:   11-6    Road:    7-8    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  14-8    vsLHP:   4-6    1-Run:   5-5 
 vsEast:  2-7    vsCntrl:10-4    vsWest:  6-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 32 Sun, May  9   KCR  W   6-4       18-14  1st  1.0 up
 31 Sat, May  8   KCR  W   3-2       17-14  1st  1.0 up
 30 Fri, May  7   KCR  W   4-1       16-14  1st  1.0 up
 29 Thu, May  6   KCR  W  13-12      15-14  1st    Tied
 28 Wed, May  5  @OAK  L   1-4       14-14  2nd  0.5 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
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, May 05, 2010 OAK  4  TEX  1        W:Trevor Cahill (1-1), L: Colby Lewis (3-1), S: Andrew Bailey (5)
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
Season Series: 2010 - OAK leads 2-1; 2009 - OAK won 11-8; 2008 - TEX won 12-7; All-Time - OAK leads 376-367

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

NYY  5.87

FLA  4.63

HOU  2.74

RA/G

TBR  3.09

WSN  4.63

PIT  6.16

BA

  

  

  

OBP

  

  

  

SLG

  

  

  

OPS

  

  

  

ERA

U. Jimenez  .93

C. Kershaw  3.96

D. Davis  7.56

K/9IP

T. Lincecum  11.93

M. Latos  6.82

N. Blackburn  2.04

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

Athletics Batters (4.22 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.22 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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP 3/1.667 1/.000 9/.333 3/.666 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 8/.804 5/.800 8/1.250 ··· 5/.600 138/98 .296/.418/.417/.835 .797/.850 .725 98/.790 0/1 1/7
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 .311 11/1.121 1/0 1/0
3.Chavez* G/S/vP 17/.243 ··· 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 16/.775 2/.000 10/1.357 99/90 .239/.293/.318/.611 .361/.636 .635 73/.648 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/.000 2/1.000 3/.333 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 6/1.300 2/1.500 5/.800 1/.000 4/1.500 117/82 .227/.274/.282/.555 .576/.547 .604 75/.510 12/1 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 .593 2/.000 0/0 0/0
50.Fox G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 57/27 .192/.246/.308/.553 .778/.308 .582 45/.679 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 51/39 .229/.255/.271/.526 .614/.500 .332 45/.506 0/0 0/0
5.Kouzmanoff G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 2/2.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/5.000 1/3.000 ··· 129/97 .275/.310/.367/.677 .648/.686 .690 88/.648 0/0 2/4
1.Patterson* G/S/vP 3/2.667 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 9/.222 4/.500 4/.833 ··· 2/.500 63/46 .200/.238/.400/.638 .301/.761 .441 60/.671 2/0 2/1
26.Pennington# G/S/vP 3/.666 2/2.000 6/.900 2/3.000 2/1.000 2/1.500 1/.000 11/.182 5/.400 6/.200 1/.000 1/.000 126/94 .269/.358/.417/.774 .702/.800 .870 92/.739 4/1 3/3
35.Powell# G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 26/23 .143/.308/.190/.498 .333/.515 .384 26/.498 0/0 0/0
7.Rosales G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 97/70 .273/.323/.386/.709 .617/.743 1.170 86/.652 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 .340 32/1.085 0/0 4/2
21.Sweeney* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 5/.800 3/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 3/1.667 13/.154 2/1.000 11/.818 ··· 5/1.467 127/94 .304/.354/.400/.754 .564/.811 .652 86/.771 0/1 1/0
IP 38.2 16.2 12.1 15.0 4.0 16.1 11.1 16.0 13.2 41.2 TOTAL .254/.319/.367/.686 .652/.698 .656 .678 19/4 19/23
ERA-K/9 3.03/10.2 3.78/9.7 7.30/8.0 /0.0 3.60/4.2 22.50/2.2 /0.0 6.06/8.8 0.00/2.4 2.25/8.4 2.63/3.9 1.51/6.3 3.75/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Fox (1-1-0)
 Powell (4-3-0)
 Suzuki (6-5-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 159/.199 64/.213 61/.347 / 63/.321 25/.455 / 75/.266 43/.216 61/.250 55/.149 170/.207 .243  Gross
 Davis
 Sweeney
 Patterson
 Fox
 Buck
10/5/5/1
0/30/0/1
0/0/30/1
16/1/0/0
2/0/0/0
10/0/0/0
OPS .601 .643 .962 .915 1.656 .889 .529 .711 .613 .533 .713
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 94/.638 32/.258 26/1.044 / 27/.528 8/1.357 / 37/.845 13/.801 27/.604 26/.769 43/.240 .689
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 65/.550 32/1.020 35/.899 / 36/1.233 17/1.796 / 38/.927 30/.401 34/.803 29/.450 127/.635 .732
Home 55/.715 41/.981 34/.992 / 38/.819 15/1.819 / 46/.941 18/.661 21/.429 30/.728 87/.507
Last 28d days 131/.599 50/.669 42/.728 / 56/.941 7/1.738 / 54/.902 34/.436 50/.704 44/.543 143/.540
HR/SB/CS 3/1/1 2/0/0 2/2/1 // 3/1/2 4/0/0 // 4/5/0 0/0/0 2/2/1 2/2/0 0/3/2 33/23/9
Usage ·····X·· ·oo·o··X ····o··X ·X······ ········ ··X·X··· ·o··oo·X ·oo··X·· ··X·X·o· ···X····
Rangers Batters (4.63 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.00 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/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 12/.500 8/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 4/.833 131/97 .298/.416/.346/.762 .570/.835 .629 104/.766 13/5 0/4
14.Arias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 54/41 .321/.333/.377/.711 .846/.667 .793 33/.524 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 .568 32/.573 0/1 0/1
29.Borbon* G/S/vP 8/.250 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.500 101/77 .206/.222/.258/.480 .178/.566 .477 76/.617 4/0 0/1
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 1.386 44/.788 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 .581 26/.644 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 .522 25/.258 0/0 0/0
27.Guerrero G/S/vP 8/.661 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 16/.976 1/.000 5/1.600 ··· 19/.977 2/1.000 10/.675 128/90 .339/.375/.539/.914 1.047/.857 1.207 98/.854 4/2 6/0
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 6/.666 1/2.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 6/1.333 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 7/.572 133/93 .277/.353/.496/.849 .557/.972 .925 105/.848 3/1 5/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 10/.425 3/.333 2/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 9/.444 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 3/.000 5/.650 5/.800 44/38 .324/.432/.378/.810 1.167/.744 .991 44/.810 2/1 0/0
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 14/.500 4/.000 6/.000 4/.000 1/.000 6/.334 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 4/.000 2/3.000 77/61 .229/.253/.386/.639 .375/.714 .819 67/.665 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 .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 .259 15/.277 0/0 0/2
10.Young G/S/vP 9/1.681 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 24/1.196 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 4/1.750 6/.500 144/103 .277/.333/.354/.687 .888/.605 .768 114/.719 1/0 2/6
IP 10.0 11.2 12.1 11.1 28.0 8.1 10.0 36.2 1.2 14.2 TOTAL .255/.326/.381/.706 .622/.742 .788 .698 35/11 25/23
ERA-K/9 5.40/6.3 0.00/4.6 3.65/9.5 3.97/10.4 /0.0 2.89/5.8 2.16/8.7 4.50/8.1 /0.0 6.38/5.9 0.00/5.3 2.45/6.7 3.77/7.1

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 45/.293 43/.167 54/.224 50/.250 / 116/.255 32/.219 47/.194 / 168/.313 8/.375 56/.149 .239  Hamilton
 Murphy
 Cruz
 Borbon
 Guerrero
28/4/0/2
6/0/17/2
0/0/17/1
0/28/0/1
0/0/3/0
OPS .868 .400 .725 .817 .699 .688 .611 .979 .875 .481 .687
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 20/.461 21/.333 21/.390 23/.638 / 62/.633 13/.538 18/.619 / 95/.817 4/1.250 20/.613 .614
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 25/1.213 22/.465 33/.950 27/.979 / 54/.770 19/.789 29/.596 / 73/1.165 4/.500 36/.411 .734
Road 24/1.029 10/.000 18/.748 21/.833 / 43/.674 24/.833 20/.639 / 72/1.363 / 18/.733
Last 28d days 45/.868 30/.333 33/.866 38/.740 / 64/.819 32/.688 32/.617 / 119/.974 8/.875 37/.341
HR/SB/CS 3/0/1 0/1/0 2/0/0 2/2/1 // 3/1/0 2/0/0 1/0/0 // 6/6/5 0/0/0 1/1/0 28/14/9
Usage ·····X·· ··o··Xo· ··o···oo ···X··X· ········ ········ ········ ··X····· ··o···X· ··o··oo·

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.