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Game Preview: OAK @ TOR, 7:07pm, Friday, April 30, 2010 @Rogers Centre

Athletics, 12-11, 12-111st, Tied

SP: Trevor Cahill (22, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (10-13) 178.2 185 99 92 72 90 27 4.63
Last 7 GS 4-1 39.1 33 15 15 15 20 2 3.43 53
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
2009-08-22 DET ND 7.0 5 2 2 3 4 0 98 60
Last 5 v.TOR 0-1 10.2 13 8 8 9 3 2 6.75 36
2009-08-01 TOR L 5.1 8 6 6 4 2 2 105 26
2009-04-18 @TOR ND 5.1 5 2 2 5 1 0 93 46
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-5    Road:    3-6    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   8-8    vsLHP:   4-3    1-Run:   3-1 
 vsEast:  4-6    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest:  6-4  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 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
 18 Fri, Apr 23   CLE  W  10-0       11-7   1st  1.5 up
 17 Thu, Apr 22   NYY  W   4-2       10-7   1st  0.5 up
 16 Wed, Apr 21   NYY  L   1-3        9-7   1st    Tied
 15 Tue, Apr 20   NYY  L   3-7        9-6   1st  1.0 up
 14 Sun, Apr 18   BAL  L   3-8        9-5   1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:12-11
Blue Jays, 11-12, 11-124th, 6½ GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Brandon Morrow (25, RHP, 1-2, 6.14)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (1-2) 22.0 18 15 15 14 24 3 6.14
2009 (2-4) 69.2 66 38 34 44 63 10 4.39
2008 (3-4) 64.2 40 26 24 34 75 10 3.34
Last 7 GS 2-2 40.2 28 20 19 25 41 3 4.20 54
2010-04-25 @TBR L 6.0 3 2 2 6 8 0 108 60
2010-04-19 KCR W 7.0 3 1 1 2 8 0 90 73
2010-04-14 CHW L 4.0 8 7 7 1 3 2 87 20
2010-04-09 @BAL ND 5.0 4 5 5 5 5 1 84 39
2009-09-30 OAK W 8.0 1 0 0 2 9 0 105 87
2009-09-23 @TBR ND 5.0 3 2 2 3 3 0 73 53
2009-09-17 CHW ND 5.2 6 3 2 6 5 0 97 46
Last 5 v.OAK 2-0 19.1 9 9 9 12 23 2 4.19 60
2009-09-30 OAK W 8.0 1 0 0 2 9 0 105 87
2008-09-26 OAK W 5.0 6 6 6 5 8 2 114 34
2008-09-21 @OAK ND 6.1 2 3 3 5 6 0 113 58
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-9    Road:    6-3    ExtrInn: 0-2 
 vsRHP:  10-8    vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   3-5 
 vsEast:  4-5    vsCntrl: 4-3    vsWest:  3-4  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 23 Thu, Apr 29   OAK  W   6-3       11-12  4th  6.5 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 28   BOS  L   0-2       10-12  4th  6.5 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 27   BOS  L   1-2       10-11  3rd  5.5 gb
 20 Mon, Apr 26   BOS  L  12-13      10-10  3rd  4.5 gb
 19 Sun, Apr 25  @TBR  L   0-6       10-9   3rd  4.0 gb
 18 Sat, Apr 24  @TBR  L   3-9       10-8   3rd  3.0 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 23  @TBR  W   6-5       10-7   3rd  2.0 gb
 16 Wed, Apr 21   KCR  L   3-4 (10)   9-7   3rd  3.0 gb
 15 Tue, Apr 20   KCR  W   4-3        9-6   3rd  2.0 gb
 14 Mon, Apr 19   KCR  W   8-1        8-6   3rd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:11-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 TOR  6  OAK  3        W:Ricky Romero (2-1), L: Justin Duchscherer (2-1), S: Kevin Gregg (6)

Sun, Aug 02, 2009 TOR  7 @OAK  2        W:Ricky Romero (10-4), L: Vin Mazzaro (2-8), S: none
Sat, Aug 01, 2009 TOR  6 @OAK  5        W:Brett Cecil (5-1), L: Trevor Cahill (6-10), S: Jason Frasor (4)
Fri, Jul 31, 2009 OAK  8  TOR  5        W:Dallas Braden (8-9), L: Scott Richmond (6-6), S: Andrew Bailey (14)
Sun, May 10, 2009 TOR  5 @OAK  0        W:Brett Cecil (1-0), L: Dallas Braden (3-4), S: none
Sat, May 09, 2009 TOR  6 @OAK  4        W:Brian Tallet (2-1), L: Sean Gallagher (1-1), S: none
Fri, May 08, 2009 OAK  5  TOR  3        W:Michael Wuertz (2-1), L: Scott Richmond (4-1), S: Andrew Bailey (1)
Sun, Apr 19, 2009 TOR  1  OAK  0        W:Ricky Romero (2-0), L: Dallas Braden (1-2), S: B.J. Ryan (2)
Sat, Apr 18, 2009 TOR  4  OAK  2 (12)   W:Jason Frasor (2-0), L: Dan Giese (0-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 17, 2009 OAK  8 @TOR  5        W:Andrew Bailey (2-0), L: Brandon League (1-1), S: Brad Ziegler (3)
Season Series: 2010 - TOR leads 1-0; 2009 - TOR won 6-3; 2008 - TOR won 6-4; All-Time - OAK leads 190-164

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

For the 2009 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

NYY  5.65

DET  4.56

SDP  3.94

 RA/G

SFG  3.77

NYM  4.67

BAL  5.41

 BA

J. Mauer  .365

Y. Torrealba  .291

A. Miles  .185

 OBP

J. Mauer  .444

W. Harris  .364

A. Miles  .224

 SLG

A. Pujols  .658

J. Thome  .481

A. Miles  .242

 OPS

A. Pujols  1.101

B. McCann  .834

A. Miles  .466

 ERA

Z. Greinke  2.16

J. Niemann  3.94

L. Hernandez  5.44

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  10.43

J. Cueto  6.94

J. Lannan  3.88

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2010 season. Player Stats for the 2009 season. We will switch to 2010 stats on May 1st.

Athletics Batters (4.52 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.61 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Morrow
G/S/vB		 49.Accardo
G/S/vB		 57.Camp
G/S/vB		 37.Downs*
G/S/vB		 54.Frasor
G/S/vB		 63.Gregg
G/S/vB		 44.Janssen
G/S/vB		 28.Marcum
G/S/vB		 29.McGowan
G/S/vB		 30.Valdez
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP 10/.543 1/.000 2/1.500 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.400 3/.333 ··· 192/160 .269/.372/.413/.784 1.083/.728 .920 98/.891 0/2 3/1
6.Buck* G/S/vP 12/.531 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.500 3/2.000 ··· 115/101 .219/.287/.333/.620 .357/.659 .563 38/.699 1/1 3/0
3.Chavez* G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 5/2.500 5/1.600 4/1.167 5/1.400 1/3.000 2/1.500 5/1.350 ··· 31/13 .100/.129/.133/.262 .222/.321 .238 72/.572 0/0 0/0
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 4/.250 3/.000 15/1.181 8/.250 10/.777 5/.750 3/.666 9/.500 12/.705 ··· 215/132 .228/.336/.378/.714 .678/.738 .729 / 13/2 3/3
32.Cust* G/S/vP 14/.978 3/.667 2/.500 8/.750 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 8/.393 9/.333 ··· 612/450 .240/.356/.417/.773 .621/.830 .708 / 4/1 25/2
11.Davis G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/4.000 432/283 .305/.360/.423/.784 .773/.789 .724 87/.545 41/12 3/4
14.Ellis G/S/vP 8/.393 5/1.400 8/.268 3/.000 10/.333 2/.500 4/.833 10/.733 12/1.219 ··· 410/301 .263/.305/.403/.708 .706/.709 .753 34/.769 10/3 10/5
50.Fox G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 241/179 .259/.311/.468/.779 .665/.818 .900 47/.508 0/0 11/7
28.Gross* G/S/vP 1/.000 3/2.000 8/.708 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 5/.000 2/.500 ··· 326/290 .227/.326/.355/.681 .747/.673 .688 39/.554 6/3 6/3
5.Kouzmanoff G/S/vP 8/.875 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 5/.650 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 573/412 .255/.302/.420/.722 .835/.677 .778 94/.613 1/0 18/3
1.Patterson* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 110/91 .287/.373/.394/.766 .849/.749 .715 29/.740 6/1 1/2
26.Pennington# G/S/vP 9/.333 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 229/171 .279/.342/.418/.760 .532/.841 .817 87/.798 7/5 4/8
35.Powell# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 155/111 .229/.297/.429/.725 .458/.829 .687 8/.393 0/0 7/4
7.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 266/205 .213/.303/.317/.620 .693/.598 .621 61/.858 1/2 4/7
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 12/.584 3/1.334 2/1.000 5/.200 4/.000 1/2.000 2/2.000 8/.250 4/.000 ··· 614/443 .274/.313/.421/.734 .727/.737 .794 67/.852 8/2 15/5
21.Sweeney* G/S/vP 9/.476 1/4.000 2/.000 5/.400 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 6/.334 2/.000 1/.000 534/409 .293/.348/.407/.755 .719/.766 .842 96/.734 6/5 6/3
IP 69.2 24.2 79.2 46.2 57.2 68.2 40.0 49.1 TOTAL .254/.322/.377/.699 .668/.711 .656 .699 13/2 15/18
ERA-K/9 4.39/8.1 2.55/6.6 3.50/6.5 3.09/8.3 2.50/8.7 4.72/9.3 5.85/5.4 /0.0 /0.0 5.66/6.9 4.43/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Fox (0-0-0)
 Powell (11-11-2)
 Suzuki (81-27-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 313/.248 107/.267 333/.245 200/.251 227/.209 298/.229 192/.341 / / 225/.292 .246  Sweeney
 Davis
 Gross
 Fox
 Cust
 Patterson
 Buck
 Crisp
7/57/85/11
0/113/5/8
0/0/100/6
23/0/3/1
0/0/51/1
26/4/2/1
5/0/28/0
0/49/0/0
OPS .755 .765 .705 .688 .556 .740 .930 .800 .705
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 179/.854 51/.485 163/.762 61/.786 117/.712 133/.592 90/.921 / / 100/.687 .587
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 134/.628 56/1.028 170/.650 139/.643 110/.391 165/.860 102/.938 / / 125/.886 .773
Home 134/.655 48/.755 170/.653 114/.552 116/.496 145/.573 108/1.061 / / 114/.742
Last 28d days 93/.768 34/1.004 54/.616 39/.803 50/1.051 38/.400 49/.783 132/.612 / 9/.889
HR/SB/CS 10/5/1 2/2/3 7/0/1 4/1/1 4/6/2 13/1/0 5/0/1 // // 5/4/4 20/17/9
Usage ····X··· ···X·o·· X··XX··· o·Xo·Xo· ····X·X· o·Xo··X· ·X·X·o·· ··X····· ····o···

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2010 season. Player Stats for the 2009 season. We will switch to 2010 stats on May 1st.

Blue Jays Batters (4.35 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.87 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
19.Bautista G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 12/.350 7/.619 4/.000 404/259 .235/.349/.408/.757 .919/.664 .804 101/.774 4/0 13/4
14.Buck G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 2/2.500 1/no AB 3/3.334 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 202/152 .247/.299/.484/.782 .664/.822 .863 67/.707 1/1 8/8
15.Encarnacion G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/2.500 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/.714 10/.533 ··· 338/269 .225/.320/.410/.729 .814/.707 .738 37/.677 2/1 13/11
3.Gonzalez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 19/.705 4/.833 1/no AB 429/323 .238/.279/.355/.635 .515/.675 .658 98/.870 2/1 8/7
2.Hill G/S/vP 6/1.166 2/.000 2/.500 2/no AB 1/.000 3/.667 ··· 4/1.167 ··· 4/.500 3/.666 2/1.000 734/552 .286/.330/.499/.829 .897/.806 .853 40/.573 6/2 36/7
26.Lind* G/S/vP 6/.533 2/.000 4/.250 4/.250 1/.000 4/1.250 ··· 5/1.550 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 654/475 .305/.370/.562/.932 .780/.992 .925 98/.867 1/1 35/1
18.McCoy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/4 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 37/.658 2/0 0/0
6.McDonald G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 5/.600 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 156/105 .258/.271/.384/.655 .615/.675 .687 32/.500 0/2 4/3
8.Molina G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 7/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 155/108 .217/.292/.268/.560 .539/.569 .540 22/.465 0/0 1/1
35.Overbay* G/S/vP 6/2.833 ··· 3/1.000 4/1.250 1/.000 7/.286 ··· 4/.833 ··· 3/.667 4/1.250 1/no AB 500/414 .265/.372/.466/.838 .534/.905 .845 93/.601 0/0 16/2
21.Ruiz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 130/100 .313/.385/.635/1.019 .798/1.090 .795 18/.389 1/1 10/0
45.Snider* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 276/226 .241/.328/.419/.748 .608/.775 .803 79/.589 1/1 9/4
10.Wells G/S/vP 6/1.167 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 9/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/1.667 2/1.000 2/.000 684/512 .260/.311/.400/.711 .602/.748 .633 97/1.063 17/4 15/1
IP 178.2 83.1 22.1 69.2 17.0 22.0 4.0 78.2 73.1 TOTAL .226/.300/.437/.737 .560/.792 .720 .737 14/2 32/13
ERA-K/9 4.63/4.5 1.84/9.8 4.84/9.3 3.36/7.1 /0.0 /0.0 0.53/10.6 5.73/9.0 2.25/9.0 /0.0 2.63/11.7 3.07/6.6 3.65/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Buck (41-8-2)
 Molina (23-9-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 773/.270 323/.167 90/.229 281/.197 / / 65/.164 110/.281 20/.235 / 304/.188 313/.293 .243  Bautista
 Wells
 Snider
 Lind
 McCoy
 McDonald
42/6/36/11
0/155/0/6
56/0/21/3
55/0/0/1
0/0/1/0
4/0/0/0
OPS .810 .476 .651 .613 .494 .911 .585 .567 .734 .699
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 405/.920 154/.470 31/.719 127/.632 / / 23/.696 67/.896 6/.900 / 128/.577 128/.912 .644
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 368/.689 169/.482 59/.617 154/.597 / / 42/.372 43/.932 14/.452 / 176/.560 185/.616 .735
Road 328/.793 177/.493 24/.375 153/.668 / / 31/.719 46/.906 7/.286 / 170/.701 138/.748
Last 28d days / 28/.546 47/.679 37/.984 / 116/.699 18/.778 47/.611 / 120/.926 / 43/.538
HR/SB/CS 27/17/10 5/1/0 2/0/0 8/8/5 // // 1/1/0 6/3/1 0/1/0 // 6/9/3 2/3/1 20/7/7
Usage o···X··o X·o····· X·X··o·· X·····X· ·X··ooo· ·····X·· ··X····· 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.