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Game Preview: TBR @ OAK, 10:05pm, Wednesday, July 27, 2011 @Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum

Rays, 53-49, 53-49 3rd, 10½ GB, 8½ GB in WC

SP: James Shields (29, RHP, 9-8, 2.53)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (9-8) 156.1 118 49 44 40 151 15 2.53
2010 (13-15) 203.1 246 128 117 51 187 34 5.18
2009 (11-12) 219.2 239 113 101 52 167 29 4.14
Last 7 GS 3-4 52.2 36 17 14 13 53 3 2.39 66
2011-07-21 NYY W 7.2 6 1 1 3 6 0 117 66
2011-07-16 BOS L 6.0 6 6 6 3 8 2 106 41
2011-07-10 @NYY L 8.0 4 1 0 1 5 0 102 76
2011-07-05 @MIN L 6.0 6 3 2 3 5 0 105 52
2011-06-29 CIN L 7.0 7 4 4 2 10 1 104 55
2011-06-24 @HOU W 9.0 3 1 1 1 9 0 106 85
2011-06-19 FLA W 9.0 4 1 0 0 10 0 110 87
Last 5 v.OAK 1-1 32.2 32 13 10 10 28 2 2.76 56
2010-05-09 @OAK L 6.0 11 4 2 1 6 0 108 43
2010-04-28 OAK W 7.0 6 2 1 1 12 1 101 70
2009-07-12 OAK ND 6.1 6 3 3 1 2 0 89 50
2009-05-19 OAK ND 8.1 4 0 0 2 5 0 98 78
2008-08-14 @OAK ND 5.0 5 4 4 5 3 1 94 39
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-25   Road:   29-24   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  37-37   vsLHP:  16-12   1-Run:  15-13
 vsEast: 19-18   vsCntrl:16-14   vsWest:  6-11 IL:12-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
102 Tue, Jul 26  @OAK  L   1-6       53-49  3rd 10.5 gb
101 Mon, Jul 25  @OAK  L   5-7       53-48  3rd  9.5 gb
100 Sun, Jul 24  @KCR  W   5-0       53-47  3rd  9.5 gb
 99 Sat, Jul 23  @KCR  L   4-5 (10)  52-47  3rd  9.5 gb
 98 Fri, Jul 22  @KCR  L   4-10      52-46  3rd  8.5 gb
 97 Thu, Jul 21   NYY  W   2-1       52-45  3rd  7.5 gb
 96 Wed, Jul 20   NYY  L   0-4       51-45  3rd  8.0 gb
 95 Tue, Jul 19   NYY  W   3-2       51-44  3rd  7.0 gb
 94 Mon, Jul 18   NYY  L   4-5       50-44  3rd  8.0 gb
 93 Sun, Jul 17   BOS  L   0-1 (16)  50-43  3rd  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:14-16
Athletics, 46-57, 46-57 3rd, 12½ GB, 16 GB in WC

SP: Trevor Cahill (23, RHP, 8-9, 3.77)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (8-9) 136.0 127 62 57 58 101 13 3.77
2010 (18-8) 196.2 155 73 65 63 118 19 2.97
2009 (10-13) 178.2 185 99 92 72 90 27 4.63
Last 7 GS 2-4 44.0 41 24 22 17 34 4 4.50 51
2011-07-22 @NYY L 2.0 9 10 10 2 2 1 61 -2
2011-07-16 LAA L 7.0 5 3 3 5 8 1 119 58
2011-07-10 @TEX L 7.2 5 2 2 2 3 1 109 62
2011-07-05 SEA ND 7.0 5 2 1 1 5 1 101 65
2011-06-30 FLA L 4.2 9 5 4 3 3 0 93 28
2011-06-25 @PHI W 7.2 3 1 1 3 6 0 104 72
2011-06-19 SFG W 8.0 5 1 1 1 7 0 118 74
Last 5 v.TBR 1-1 10.2 15 10 10 4 7 4 8.44 37
2010-08-19 TBR W 8.0 7 3 3 2 5 2 113 59
2009-04-24 TBR L 2.2 8 7 7 2 2 2 76 14
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-22   Road:   18-35   ExtrInn: 6-10
 vsRHP:  30-42   vsLHP:  16-15   1-Run:  14-20
 vsEast:  8-14   vsCntrl:14-16   vsWest: 16-17 IL: 8-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
103 Tue, Jul 26   TBR  W   6-1       46-57  3rd 12.5 gb
102 Mon, Jul 25   TBR  W   7-5       45-57  3rd 13.5 gb
101 Sun, Jul 24  @NYY  L   5-7       44-57  3rd 13.5 gb
100 Sat, Jul 23  @NYY  W   4-3       44-56  3rd 13.5 gb
 99 Fri, Jul 22  @NYY  L   7-17      43-56  3rd 13.5 gb
 98 Wed, Jul 20  @DET  W   7-5       43-55  4th 13.0 gb
 97 Tue, Jul 19  @DET  L   3-8       42-55  4th 14.0 gb
 96 Sun, Jul 17   LAA  W   9-1       42-54  4th 13.0 gb
 95 Sat, Jul 16   LAA  W   4-3 (10)  41-54  4th 13.0 gb
 94 Sat, Jul 16   LAA  L   2-4       40-54  4th 13.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jul 26, 2011 OAK  6  TBR  1        W:Brandon McCarthy (3-5), L: David Price (9-9), S: none
Mon, Jul 25, 2011 OAK  7  TBR  5        W:Brian Fuentes (2-8), L: J.P. Howell (2-2), S: Andrew Bailey (12)

Sun, Aug 22, 2010 TBR  3 @OAK  2        W:Matt Garza (13-7), L: Dallas Braden (8-9), S: Rafael Soriano (37)
Sat, Aug 21, 2010 TBR  5 @OAK  4        W:Randy Choate (3-3), L: Craig Breslow (4-4), S: Rafael Soriano (36)
Fri, Aug 20, 2010 OAK  5  TBR  4        W:Henry Rodriguez (1-0), L: Joaquin Benoit (0-2), S: Craig Breslow (2)
Thu, Aug 19, 2010 OAK  4  TBR  3        W:Trevor Cahill (13-5), L: Dan Wheeler (2-1), S: Jerry Blevins (1)
Sun, May 09, 2010 OAK  4  TBR  0        W:Dallas Braden (4-2), L: James Shields (4-1), S: none
Sat, May 08, 2010 OAK  4  TBR  2        W:Ben Sheets (2-3), L: Wade Davis (3-2), S: Andrew Bailey (6)
Fri, May 07, 2010 TBR  4 @OAK  1        W:David Price (4-1), L: Gio Gonzalez (3-2), S: Rafael Soriano (8)
Wed, Apr 28, 2010 TBR 10  OAK  3        W:James Shields (3-0), L: Dallas Braden (3-1), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - OAK over 2-0; 2010 - TBR won 5-4; 2009 - OAK won 6-4; All-Time - OAK leads 78-46

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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.50

TBR  4.14

SEA  3.26

 RA/G

PHI  3.32

CLE  4.26

BAL  5.23

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .348

E. Andrus  .278

A. Dunn  .161

 OBP

J. Bautista  .466

C. Jones  .341

M. Olivo  .254

 SLG

J. Bautista  .680

K. Johnson  .446

C. Getz  .281

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.146

N. Swisher  .796

A. Rios  .555

 ERA

J. Weaver  1.79

D. Hudson  3.72

J. Happ  6.12

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.46

R. Nolasco  6.80

C. Pavano  3.77

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

Rays Batters (4.14 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.84 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 53.Cahill
G/S/vB		 40.Bailey
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 56.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 33.Devine
G/S/vB		 57.Fuentes*
G/S/vB		 48.Wuertz
G/S/vB		 31.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
22.Damon* G/S/vP 3/.000 4/2.750 6/.533 3/.000 ··· 5/.000 4/.833 4/1.167 408/296 .275/.323/.418/.741 .669/.767 .823 81/.739 8/4 9/0
5.Fuld* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 293/224 .243/.300/.367/.667 .599/.687 .684 46/.716 18/8 3/3
8.Jennings G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 19/15 .429/.556/.786/1.341 3.500/.929 1.341 19/1.341 3/0 0/1
9.Johnson# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 145/77 .195/.262/.344/.606 .755/.489 .536 37/.604 4/5 3/1
20.Joyce* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 334/277 .283/.338/.507/.845 .611/.894 .809 63/.623 8/0 14/2
11.Kotchman* G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 2/.500 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 324/252 .328/.389/.451/.839 .588/.916 .805 92/.791 1/2 4/1
3.Longoria G/S/vP 6/1.667 3/1.167 ··· 4/.250 1/.000 3/1.000 6/.000 5/.650 309/237 .238/.340/.453/.793 .817/.786 .895 91/.722 1/1 13/8
1.Rodriguez G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 250/158 .212/.294/.360/.655 .922/.507 .632 73/.529 7/4 4/7
16.Ruggiano G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 94/55 .258/.280/.438/.718 .608/.796 .710 29/.483 1/1 4/0
10.Shoppach G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 3/.666 165/80 .189/.287/.329/.615 .754/.470 .640 36/.776 0/0 6/2
2.Upton G/S/vP 5/.650 5/.400 1/.000 2/.500 2/.500 2/.000 4/.250 8/.536 402/300 .227/.307/.395/.702 .755/.684 .827 87/.695 23/7 15/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 5/2.100 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 3/.667 3/1.000 8/.393 433/313 .278/.373/.499/.871 .860/.882 .984 88/1.080 12/2 13/5
IP 136.0 20.0 41.0 35.2 23.0 41.2 29.2 36.2 TOTAL .244/.313/.397/.710 .721/.706 .748 .718 91/37 96/51
ERA-K/9 3.77/6.7 2.25/9.4 1.98/9.2 3.28/7.3 3.52/7.8 4.32/6.7 3.94/8.8 1.72/6.6 3.33/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Shoppach (11-13-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 581/.250 76/.159 161/.188 153/.312 100/.214 186/.252 130/.220 153/.259 .244  Upton
 Joyce
 Fuld
 Ruggiano
 Damon
 Rodriguez
 Johnson
 Zobrist
 Jennings
0/97/0/5
12/0/80/5
68/5/3/4
24/2/3/1
15/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
1/1/0/0
0/0/30/0
3/1/0/0
OPS .696 .499 .547 .806 .611 .669 .712 .625 .674
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 316/.707 44/.635 81/.509 62/.963 50/.819 60/.780 62/.849 51/.959 .700
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 265/.682 32/.321 80/.584 91/.692 50/.408 126/.614 68/.586 102/.461 .654
Home 304/.658 45/.273 87/.491 73/.867 40/.396 91/.717 67/.630 65/.642
Last 28d days 127/.853 39/.580 29/.351 25/.777 29/.711 31/.612 26/1.223 35/.678
HR/SB/CS 13/23/5 1/4/0 3/0/0 2/1/6 0/5/0 3/5/1 3/5/1 0/4/2 74/79/33
Usage ····X··· ·X·X··X· XX·X··X· ···oX·oo ··o·X·X· ·oX·o··o ·X··X··· ···oo·o·
Athletics Batters (3.63 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.91 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS Shields
G/S/vB		 43.Farnsworth
G/S/vB		 74.Howell*
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 62.Peralta
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 15/.343 11/1.100 8/.625 ··· 5/1.600 395/265 .266/.316/.385/.701 .629/.744 .759 94/.738 27/9 4/1
12.DeJesus* G/S/vP 23/.490 3/.667 8/.804 ··· ··· 349/260 .229/.314/.340/.654 .326/.772 .716 86/.679 3/2 5/2
28.Jackson G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/3.000 289/186 .264/.332/.349/.681 .770/.632 .738 77/.718 3/1 3/2
55.Matsui* G/S/vP 23/1.390 2/.500 17/.824 ··· 5/.400 346/253 .238/.314/.373/.687 .859/.621 .636 81/.845 1/1 8/0
2.Pennington# G/S/vP 8/.393 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 366/267 .264/.317/.355/.671 .715/.655 .593 73/.910 6/9 5/14
11.Powell# G/S/vP 6/.900 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 90/67 .188/.278/.263/.540 .594/.521 .793 21/.510 0/0 1/2
29.Sizemore G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 217/151 .242/.333/.344/.677 1.004/.537 .757 77/.700 1/1 4/7
36.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 14/8 .182/.357/.364/.721 .167/1.167 1.167 14/.721 0/0 0/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 16/.690 3/.666 3/2.000 ··· 3/.666 338/246 .227/.288/.351/.638 .678/.623 .665 68/.737 2/2 7/6
15.Sweeney* G/S/vP 18/.765 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 184/166 .279/.348/.327/.675 .111/.736 .738 29/.586 1/1 0/0
16.Willingham G/S/vP 12/.788 2/.000 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 319/218 .241/.329/.428/.757 .749/.761 .790 62/.930 4/1 13/1
IP 156.1 40.2 17.2 11.0 46.0 TOTAL .241/.309/.348/.658 .662/.656 .686 .722 68/34 57/82
ERA-K/9 2.53/8.7 1.99/7.1 9.17/8.1 3.27/6.5 3.72/7.6 3.65/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Powell (10-7-1)
 Suzuki (69-26-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 609/.212 161/.215 87/.282 50/.295 182/.213 .238  Jackson
 Sweeney
 Willingham
 Matsui
 Crisp
 DeJesus
17/0/24/4
34/12/14/3
58/0/0/2
12/0/0/2
0/90/0/1
0/8/75/1
OPS .611 .578 .815 .776 .662 .691
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 321/.641 73/.679 41/.576 25/.327 82/.531 .654
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 288/.576 88/.503 46/1.065 25/1.283 100/.772 .721
Road 281/.619 87/.597 56/.773 23/.698 112/.872
Last 28d days 111/.633 36/.539 37/.766 16/.464 38/.642
HR/SB/CS 15/0/3 2/1/1 3/3/0 1/2/0 5/3/1 95/63/21
Usage ·····X·· ···X·o·· ·X·oX··· ··X·X··o ·ooX···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.