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Game Preview: DET @ OAK, 10:05 pm, Friday, April 15, 2011 @Oakland-Alameda Country Coliseum

Tigers, 6-7, 6-7 4th, 2½ GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Rick Porcello (22, RHP, 0-2, 9.00)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (0-2) 10.0 18 10 10 4 6 1 9.00
2010 (10-12) 162.2 188 96 89 38 84 18 4.92
2009 (14-9) 170.2 176 81 75 52 89 23 3.96
Last 7 GS 3-3 44.2 57 25 25 6 25 6 5.04 46
2011-04-10 KCR L 5.0 9 5 5 3 2 0 97 28
2011-04-04 @BAL L 5.0 9 5 5 1 4 1 81 32
2010-10-01 @BAL L 6.1 12 2 2 0 4 1 96 45
2010-09-26 MIN W 8.0 4 1 1 1 5 1 107 74
2010-09-20 KCR ND 5.1 12 5 5 0 2 1 82 26
2010-09-09 CHW W 8.0 4 3 3 0 3 1 105 65
2010-09-04 @KCR W 7.0 7 4 4 1 5 1 110 51
Last 5 v.OAK 1-3 22.0 27 13 13 7 7 4 5.32 43
2010-05-29 OAK L 6.1 7 2 2 2 1 1 105 50
2009-08-23 @OAK L 5.1 8 5 5 1 1 2 92 32
2009-06-29 @OAK L 4.1 9 5 5 2 0 1 78 23
2009-05-16 OAK W 6.0 3 1 1 2 5 0 86 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    3-3    Road:    3-4    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   4-5    vsLHP:   2-2    1-Run:   2-0 
 vsEast:  2-4    vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest:  3-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Thu, Apr 14  @OAK  W   3-0        6-7   4th  2.5 gb
 12 Wed, Apr 13   TEX  W   3-2        5-7   4th  3.0 gb
 11 Tue, Apr 12   TEX  W   5-4        4-7   5th  4.0 gb
 10 Mon, Apr 11   TEX  L   0-2        3-7   5th  5.0 gb
  9 Sun, Apr 10   KCR  L   5-9        3-6   4th  4.0 gb
  8 Sat, Apr  9   KCR  L   1-3        3-5   4th  3.0 gb
  7 Fri, Apr  8   KCR  W   5-2        3-4   4th  2.0 gb
  6 Thu, Apr  7  @BAL  L   5-9        2-4   4th  2.0 gb
  5 Wed, Apr  6  @BAL  W   7-3        2-3   4th  1.5 gb
  4 Mon, Apr  4  @BAL  L   1-5        1-3   4th  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 6-7    Last 30: 6-7
Athletics, 6-7, 6-7 3rd, 3½ GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Brandon McCarthy (27, RHP, 1-0, 3.52)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (1-0) 15.1 17 7 6 1 7 0 3.52
2009 (7-4) 97.1 96 55 50 36 65 13 4.62
2008 (1-1) 22.0 20 11 10 8 10 3 4.09
Last 7 GS 2-2 42.1 44 25 20 9 26 2 4.25 49
2011-04-10 @MIN W 7.1 9 2 2 0 5 0 107 57
2011-04-05 @TOR ND 8.0 8 5 4 1 2 0 89 49
2009-10-02 @SEA ND 4.2 7 4 4 0 5 0 76 39
2009-09-27 TBR ND 7.2 6 2 0 1 3 0 97 65
2009-09-22 @OAK L 5.1 5 3 2 2 5 0 85 51
2009-09-15 OAK L 3.0 4 4 3 3 2 0 80 36
2009-09-08 @CLE W 6.1 5 5 5 2 4 2 105 45
Last 5 v.DET 0-3 21.0 26 13 12 4 13 3 5.14 47
2009-05-19 @DET L 7.0 9 4 3 3 4 0 118 46
2008-09-15 DET ND 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 52
2007-09-11 @DET L 0.2 3 3 3 1 0 0 35 33
2005-09-27 @DET L 6.1 8 3 3 0 4 2 83 49
2005-06-29 @DET ND 6.1 6 3 3 0 5 1 83 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    1-3    Road:    5-4    ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:   3-4    vsLHP:   3-3    1-Run:   3-3 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 4-3    vsWest:  1-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Thu, Apr 14   DET  L   0-3        6-7   3rd  3.5 gb
 12 Wed, Apr 13  @CHW  W   7-4 (10)   6-6   3rd  3.0 gb
 11 Tue, Apr 12  @CHW  L   5-6 (10)   5-6   3rd  4.0 gb
 10 Mon, Apr 11  @CHW  W   2-1 (10)   5-5   2nd  4.0 gb
  9 Sun, Apr 10  @MIN  W   5-3        4-5   3rd  4.0 gb
  8 Sat, Apr  9  @MIN  W   1-0        3-5   3rd  4.0 gb
  7 Fri, Apr  8  @MIN  L   1-2        2-5   3rd  4.5 gb
  6 Thu, Apr  7  @TOR  W   2-1        2-4   3rd  4.0 gb
  5 Wed, Apr  6  @TOR  L   3-5        1-4   4th  4.5 gb
  4 Tue, Apr  5  @TOR  L   6-7 (10)   1-3   4th  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 6-7    Last 30: 6-7 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 DET  3 @OAK  0        W:Phil Coke (1-2), L: Tyson Ross (1-1), S: Jose Valverde (3)

Mon, May 31, 2010 OAK  4 @DET  1        W:Trevor Cahill (4-2), L: Justin Verlander (5-4), S: Andrew Bailey (11)
Sun, May 30, 2010 DET 10  OAK  2        W:Max Scherzer (2-4), L: Dallas Braden (4-5), S: Joel Zumaya (1)
Sat, May 29, 2010 OAK  6 @DET  0        W:Brett Anderson (2-1), L: Rick Porcello (4-5), S: none
Fri, May 28, 2010 OAK  5 @DET  4        W:Brad Ziegler (2-2), L: Ryan Perry (1-4), S: Andrew Bailey (10)
Thu, May 20, 2010 DET  5 @OAK  2        W:Jeremy Bonderman (2-2), L: Tyson Ross (1-2), S: Jose Valverde (11)
Wed, May 19, 2010 DET  5 @OAK  1        W:Justin Verlander (5-2), L: Dallas Braden (4-4), S: none
Sun, Aug 23, 2009 OAK  9  DET  4        W:Brett Tomko (3-2), L: Rick Porcello (10-8), S: none
Sat, Aug 22, 2009 OAK  3  DET  2        W:Andrew Bailey (6-3), L: Zach Miner (5-4), S: none
Fri, Aug 21, 2009 DET  3 @OAK  2        W:Edwin Jackson (10-5), L: Gio Gonzalez (4-4), S: Fernando Rodney (26)
Season Series: 2011 - DET over 1-0; 2010 - Tied 3-3; 2009 - DET won 5-4; All-Time - DET leads 977-899

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 2011 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 2010 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

NYY  5.30

ARI  4.40

SEA  3.17

 RA/G

SDP  3.59

CHW  4.35

PIT  5.35

 BA

J. Hamilton  .359

M. Mora  .285

B. Wood  .146

 OBP

J. Morneau  .437

O. Infante  .359

B. Wood  .174

 SLG

J. Hamilton  .633

C. Granderson  .468

B. Wood  .208

 OPS

J. Morneau  1.055

A. Torres  .823

B. Wood  .382

 ERA

F. Hernandez  2.27

C. Pavano  3.75

J. Bonderman  5.53

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  9.79

M. Cain  7.13

K. Kendrick  4.18

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2011 season. Player Stats for the 2010 season. We will switch to 2011 stats on May 1st.

Tigers Batters (4.15 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.McCarthy
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 56.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 26.Cramer*
G/S/vB		 57.Fuentes*
G/S/vB		 66.Ross
G/S/vB		 31.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 333/295 .228/.316/.340/.656 .502/.676 .612 36/.924 2/2 7/4
26.Boesch* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 512/393 .256/.320/.416/.736 .951/.673 .622 45/.791 7/1 14/10
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 4/1.750 6/.500 1/2.000 5/.400 1/.000 8/1.792 3/1.167 6/1.100 648/482 .328/.420/.622/1.042 1.000/1.054 1.015 57/1.091 3/3 38/13
15.Inge G/S/vP 12/.916 6/.583 1/no AB 2/.500 ··· 4/.250 2/.000 7/.858 580/423 .247/.321/.397/.718 .817/.681 .648 46/.679 4/3 13/9
14.Jackson G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/3.000 ··· 1/2.000 4/1.167 1/.000 675/491 .293/.345/.400/.745 .600/.798 .730 56/.565 27/6 4/6
32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 251/225 .244/.272/.374/.646 .487/.663 .588 12/.614 3/0 9/5
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 16/1.429 6/1.167 3/.666 4/.750 1/.000 2/5.000 1/.000 2/.000 538/371 .302/.351/.493/.844 1.173/.694 .741 55/.635 1/0 20/8
30.Ordonez G/S/vP 11/.855 6/.666 1/.000 5/.800 ··· ··· 2/1.000 6/.167 365/284 .303/.378/.474/.852 1.171/.763 .804 26/.519 1/0 12/3
27.Peralta G/S/vP 21/.199 11/.697 4/.250 5/.000 1/.000 7/1.762 2/no AB 3/.000 615/441 .249/.311/.392/.703 .771/.677 .777 48/.779 1/0 15/8
25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.667 1/3.000 5/.000 410/264 .280/.340/.474/.814 .929/.753 .827 39/.848 2/2 15/6
28.Rhymes* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 213/173 .304/.350/.414/.763 .855/.741 .826 42/.509 0/3 1/4
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 3/1.000 6/.600 3/.833 4/.833 ··· 2/1.000 3/1.334 2/1.000 367/289 .263/.337/.325/.662 .763/.635 .624 19/.631 2/2 3/8
57.Wells G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 99/47 .323/.364/.538/.901 .695/1.130 .982 11/.899 0/1 4/0
IP 55.1 48.2 74.2 23.2 48.0 39.1 60.2 TOTAL .249/.321/.415/.736 .595/.788 .758 .736 7/1 14/9
ERA-K/9 /0.0 2.28/9.1 3.70/8.5 3.01/8.6 3.04/4.9 2.81/8.8 5.49/7.3 3.26/6.1 2.83/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (43-20-6)
 Martinez (99-27-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / 222/.216 220/.274 304/.194 93/.233 196/.181 169/.271 257/.241 .232  Jackson
 Boesch
 Ordonez
 Raburn
 Kelly
 Wells
0/149/0/9
44/0/79/9
0/0/71/7
73/7/20/4
65/12/2/4
8/4/29/4
OPS .619 .758 .620 .736 .607 .754 .694 .628
vs LHB (BF-OPS) / 100/.771 97/.598 104/.586 16/.875 55/.371 74/.674 78/1.034 .672
vs RHB (BF-OPS) / 122/.496 123/.892 200/.637 77/.705 141/.696 95/.819 179/.560 .604
Home / 100/.667 108/.744 139/.609 25/.960 115/.620 86/.576 127/.523
Last 28d days 62/.668 18/.690 27/.431 18/1.300 12/.530 25/.390 19/.675 16/.421
HR/SB/CS // 3/2/2 7/1/1 9/4/1 5/0/1 5/3/1 4/2/0 4/2/1 8/10/7
Usage ····X··· ·o··oX·· X·X·o··· ·XX····· o·X····· ·X·ooX·o X··X···· ·Xo·····

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2011 season. Player Stats for the 2010 season. We will switch to 2011 stats on May 1st.

Athletics Batters (3.31 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Porcello
G/S/vB		 53.Benoit
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 21.Gonzalez
G/S/vB		 55.Schlereth*
G/S/vB		 36.Thomas*
G/S/vB		 46.Valverde
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP 5/1.000 2/.000 7/2.114 ··· ··· 1/no AB 3/.667 686/498 .273/.393/.405/.798 .895/.761 .801 55/.832 7/3 10/10
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 3/.666 11/.573 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 328/241 .279/.342/.438/.779 .949/.716 .890 49/.599 32/3 8/2
12.DeJesus* G/S/vP 12/.916 8/.393 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.334 5/.800 394/287 .318/.384/.443/.827 .725/.864 .857 47/.453 3/3 5/0
14.Ellis G/S/vP 8/1.750 13/.749 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· ··· 492/372 .291/.358/.381/.739 .839/.706 .641 49/.591 7/6 5/3
28.Jackson G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 241/195 .236/.336/.327/.663 .743/.645 .679 26/.721 6/1 2/1
5.Kouzmanoff G/S/vP 3/.000 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 4/.000 586/435 .247/.283/.396/.679 .724/.663 .672 44/.475 2/1 16/12
21.LaRoche G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/.000 271/174 .206/.268/.287/.555 .683/.485 .565 22/.840 1/1 4/11
55.Matsui* G/S/vP 8/1.000 11/.673 6/.000 3/1.167 ··· 1/no AB 3/.666 558/409 .274/.361/.459/.820 .692/.868 .812 47/.721 0/1 21/0
2.Pennington# G/S/vP 5/.650 1/.000 4/.750 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 576/443 .250/.319/.368/.687 .655/.697 .679 35/.406 29/5 6/25
11.Powell# G/S/vP 5/.800 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 129/91 .214/.305/.304/.608 .624/.602 .565 5/1.800 1/0 2/6
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 8/.708 6/.000 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 544/403 .242/.303/.366/.669 .575/.701 .731 47/.581 3/2 13/8
15.Sweeney* G/S/vP 10/1.700 2/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 331/257 .294/.342/.383/.725 .623/.754 .798 10/.686 1/1 1/0
16.Willingham G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 6/.900 ··· ··· 5/.200 451/336 .268/.389/.459/.848 .904/.830 .963 51/.739 8/0 16/1
IP 162.2 60.1 64.2 26.0 18.2 69.1 63.0 TOTAL .230/.289/.352/.642 .561/.700 .546 .642 10/3 7/13
ERA-K/9 4.92/4.6 1.34/11.2 3.76/7.4 3.81/4.5 2.89/9.1 3.89/3.9 3.00/9.0 4.86/6.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Powell (17-9-0)
 Suzuki (66-19-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 700/.288 217/.147 279/.275 107/.236 87/.270 307/.292 259/.184 .259  Willingham
 DeJesus
 Sweeney
 Jackson
 Crisp
 Matsui
108/0/0/7
2/19/70/5
0/1/80/4
52/0/0/3
0/73/0/2
18/0/0/1
OPS .752 .454 .699 .771 .752 .776 .585 .743
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 367/.784 104/.491 124/.681 55/.876 34/.998 132/.632 138/.662 .825
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 333/.717 113/.419 155/.713 52/.669 53/.594 175/.885 121/.502 .672
Road 310/.782 105/.506 135/.819 47/.790 48/.851 159/.836 115/.610
Last 28d days 52/1.019 22/.325 61/.491 14/1.012 16/.543 12/1.375 21/.340
HR/SB/CS 18/10/5 6/2/2 2/1/0 4/0/1 2/5/0 4/0/2 5/3/1 13/13/2
Usage ····X··· X·X···o· X····X·· ····X··X ····X·oX ····oo·o ooo···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.