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Game Preview: OAK @ TOR, 7:07pm, Wednesday, April 6, 2011 @Rogers Centre

Athletics, 1-3, 1-3 4th, 3½ GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Dallas Braden (27, LHP, 0-0, undef)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (11-14) 192.2 180 83 75 43 113 17 3.50
2009 (8-9) 136.2 144 63 59 42 81 9 3.89
2008 (5-4) 71.2 77 36 33 25 41 8 4.14
Last 7 GS 2-5 41.2 41 21 20 15 23 4 4.32 49
2010-10-03 @SEA W 5.0 5 2 2 1 2 0 76 50
2010-09-28 @LAA L 7.0 10 4 3 0 3 1 94 46
2010-09-23 TEX W 8.0 1 0 0 2 7 0 114 85
2010-09-18 @MIN L 6.0 8 4 4 4 2 1 112 38
2010-09-12 BOS L 5.2 6 4 4 4 2 0 97 39
2010-09-07 SEA L 5.0 9 6 6 2 3 1 96 26
2010-09-02 @NYY L 5.0 2 1 1 2 4 1 76 61
Last 5 v.TOR 2-2 27.0 25 11 10 6 13 2 3.33 54
2010-08-17 TOR W 7.0 3 2 1 2 5 0 104 68
2009-07-31 TOR W 6.2 8 5 5 1 1 1 106 38
2009-05-10 TOR L 6.0 9 3 3 0 3 1 84 45
2009-04-19 @TOR L 7.1 5 1 1 3 4 0 97 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    1-2    Road:    0-1    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   1-1    vsLHP:   0-2    1-Run:   0-1 
 vsEast:  0-1    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  1-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  4 Tue, Apr  5  @TOR  L   6-7 (10)   1-3   4th  3.5 gb
  3 Sun, Apr  3   SEA  W   7-1        1-2   3rd  2.0 gb
  2 Sat, Apr  2   SEA  L   2-5        0-2   4th  2.0 gb
  1 Fri, Apr  1   SEA  L   2-6        0-1   4th  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 1-3    Last 20: 1-3    Last 30: 1-3
Blue Jays, 3-1, 3-1 2nd, 1 GB, 1 up in WC

SP: Jesse Litsch (26, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (1-5) 46.2 53 30 30 15 16 7 5.79
2009 (0-1) 9.0 14 9 9 1 8 4 9.00
2008 (13-9) 176.0 178 79 70 39 99 20 3.58
Last 7 GS 1-4 37.1 41 23 23 14 11 6 5.54 43
2010-08-01 CLE L 4.0 6 4 4 2 1 1 74 33
2010-07-25 @DET ND 5.1 5 2 2 3 3 0 82 50
2010-07-20 @KCR W 5.2 8 1 1 0 0 0 84 49
2010-07-11 BOS L 7.0 4 3 3 1 5 2 99 61
2010-07-06 MIN ND 5.1 7 5 5 2 0 2 76 32
2010-06-30 @CLE L 6.0 4 2 2 2 2 1 97 56
2010-06-25 PHI L 4.0 7 6 6 4 0 0 85 20
Last 5 v.OAK 1-1 20.0 18 4 2 5 11 0 0.90 61
2008-05-29 @OAK W 7.0 7 0 0 1 3 0 108 65
2007-08-28 @OAK ND 6.0 4 2 2 1 3 0 98 58
2007-07-03 @OAK L 7.0 7 2 0 3 5 0 106 61
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    3-1    Road:    0-0    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   2-1    vsLHP:   1-0    1-Run:   1-1 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest:  1-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  4 Tue, Apr  5   OAK  W   7-6 (10)   3-1   2nd  1.0 gb
  3 Sun, Apr  3   MIN  L   3-4        2-1   2nd  1.0 gb
  2 Sat, Apr  2   MIN  W   6-1        2-0   1st    Tied
  1 Fri, Apr  1   MIN  W  13-3        1-0   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 3-1    Last 20: 3-1    Last 30: 3-1 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 TOR  7  OAK  6 (10)   W:Jason Frasor (1-0), L: Grant Balfour (0-1), S: none

Wed, Aug 18, 2010 OAK  5  TOR  4        W:Brad Ziegler (3-4), L: Casey Janssen (4-1), S: none
Tue, Aug 17, 2010 OAK  6  TOR  2        W:Dallas Braden (8-8), L: Brian Tallet (2-5), S: Michael Wuertz (6)
Mon, Aug 16, 2010 TOR  3 @OAK  1        W:Shaun Marcum (11-6), L: Brett Anderson (3-4), S: none
Sun, May 02, 2010 TOR  9  OAK  3        W:Shaun Marcum (1-1), L: Ben Sheets (1-3), S: none
Sat, May 01, 2010 OAK  4 @TOR  3        W:Gio Gonzalez (3-1), L: Dana Eveland (2-1), S: Andrew Bailey (3)
Fri, Apr 30, 2010 TOR 10  OAK  2        W:Brandon Morrow (2-2), L: Trevor Cahill (0-1), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2011 - TOR over 1-0; 2010 - TOR won 4-3; 2009 - TOR won 6-3; All-Time - OAK leads 193-168

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.

Athletics Batters (4.25 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (3.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Litsch
G/S/vB		 57.Camp
G/S/vB		 54.Frasor
G/S/vB		 44.Janssen
G/S/vB		 25.Purcey*
G/S/vB		 60.Rauch
G/S/vB		 37.Reyes*
G/S/vB		 34.Rzepczynski*
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.250 3/.333 3/1.167 1/.000 686/498 .273/.393/.405/.798 .895/.761 .794 18/.667 7/3 10/10
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 9/.347 15/1.181 10/.777 3/.666 7/.286 4/2.250 3/.000 3/3.000 3/.000 328/241 .279/.342/.438/.779 .949/.716 .659 18/.977 32/3 8/2
12.DeJesus* G/S/vP 14/.917 7/.334 5/.000 2/1.500 ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 4/.833 394/287 .318/.384/.443/.827 .725/.864 .802 18/.465 3/3 5/0
14.Ellis G/S/vP 9/.583 9/.472 12/.273 5/1.100 3/.667 2/.000 2/1.500 2/.000 1/.000 492/372 .291/.358/.381/.739 .839/.706 .825 16/.646 7/6 5/3
28.Jackson G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.167 7/1.738 3/.667 7/.750 241/195 .236/.336/.327/.663 .743/.645 .640 6/1.100 6/1 2/1
5.Kouzmanoff G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/1.334 2/.000 ··· 3/1.667 7/1.143 2/.000 7/.453 586/435 .247/.283/.396/.679 .724/.663 .685 16/.583 2/1 16/12
21.LaRoche G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 5/2.200 ··· 7/1.000 271/174 .206/.268/.287/.555 .683/.485 .547 3/1.667 1/1 4/11
55.Matsui* G/S/vP 9/1.181 16/.688 16/1.554 5/.400 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 558/409 .274/.361/.459/.820 .692/.868 .827 11/.455 0/1 21/0
2.Pennington# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 2/.500 ··· 576/443 .250/.319/.368/.687 .655/.697 .695 10/.222 29/5 6/25
11.Powell# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 129/91 .214/.305/.304/.608 .624/.602 .623 1/2.000 1/0 2/6
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 2/.500 3/.666 6/.167 3/2.000 2/1.000 3/1.334 2/1.500 2/1.000 1/.000 544/403 .242/.303/.366/.669 .575/.701 .600 15/.718 3/2 13/8
15.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/.333 ··· 3/.667 4/.833 ··· ··· ··· 331/257 .294/.342/.383/.725 .623/.754 .637 2/.000 1/1 1/0
16.Willingham G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 1/5.000 ··· 1/.000 20/.938 4/.500 ··· 11/.697 451/336 .268/.389/.459/.848 .904/.830 .740 16/1.113 8/0 16/1
IP 46.2 72.1 63.2 68.2 34.0 57.2 3.1 63.2 52.2 TOTAL .263/.309/.409/.717 .773/.689 .928 .717 1/0 2/9
ERA-K/9 5.79/3.1 2.99/5.7 3.68/9.2 3.67/8.3 3.71/8.5 3.12/7.2 24.30/5.5 4.95/8.1 4.61/11.4 2.92/8.0

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 202/.286 298/.259 279/.247 298/.272 143/.210 245/.268 23/.500 287/.289 231/.238 .235  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 .822 .728 .691 .748 .629 .671 1.465 .840 .702 .648
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 120/.833 118/.832 120/.718 131/.798 55/.495 120/.739 7/1.429 70/.671 117/.768 .612
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 82/.805 180/.661 159/.671 167/.709 88/.699 125/.607 16/1.482 217/.895 114/.637 .674
Home 117/.796 156/.669 129/.518 161/.769 87/.739 127/.735 / 145/.908 104/.855
Last 28d days / 8/.250 12/.879 7/.571 3/.000 8/1.232 20/1.237 6/.750 12/.167
HR/SB/CS 7/2/0 8/7/1 4/6/1 8/4/1 3/0/1 3/0/1 2/0/0 8/5/3 7/8/1 3/1/0
Usage o·oo···· X·o·o··· ··X·o··· X······· o·X····· X······· ··oo···· X···o···

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

Blue Jays Batters (7.25 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.75 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Braden*
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		 32.McCarthy
G/S/vB		 48.Wuertz
G/S/vB		 31.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Arencibia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 37/24 .143/.189/.343/.532 .077/.772 .789 8/2.071 0/0 2/0
19.Bautista G/S/vP 9/.444 8/.542 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 1/.000 8/.536 4/.000 683/554 .260/.378/.617/.995 .843/1.030 1.118 15/1.600 9/2 54/7
11.Davis G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 9/.833 ··· ··· 561/412 .284/.320/.377/.697 .784/.666 .687 10/.700 50/11 5/4
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 ··· 6/.750 4/.750 11/.606 ··· 367/288 .244/.305/.482/.787 .914/.755 .677 17/.426 1/0 21/18
5.Escobar G/S/vP 3/.667 3/2.667 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 567/439 .256/.337/.318/.655 .733/.633 .625 20/1.109 6/2 4/18
2.Hill G/S/vP 16/1.230 6/1.500 2/.500 3/.667 ··· 3/1.334 17/.853 5/.400 3/.666 580/443 .205/.271/.394/.665 .451/.729 .730 17/.443 2/2 26/10
26.Lind* G/S/vP 10/1.100 3/.000 4/.250 5/.200 ··· 1/3.000 16/.464 2/1.500 3/.000 613/468 .237/.287/.425/.712 .341/.829 .759 19/.898 0/0 23/0
18.McCoy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 90/55 .195/.267/.244/.511 .745/.370 .550 8/1.339 5/1 0/2
6.McDonald G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.750 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/2.000 5/.000 1/.000 3/1.167 163/121 .250/.273/.454/.727 .743/.721 .720 1/ 2/1 6/5
8.Molina G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.000 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 10/.700 ··· 1/.000 183/134 .246/.304/.377/.681 .464/.763 .702 8/1.089 1/0 6/2
28.Nix G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 4/.250 ··· ··· 3/.666 5/.000 3/.666 363/264 .224/.281/.396/.676 .681/.674 .776 8/1.333 1/2 14/16
20.Rivera G/S/vP 28/.571 5/.000 4/1.167 3/.666 3/.000 2/1.000 6/.167 1/.000 8/.750 455/293 .252/.312/.409/.721 .746/.707 .625 15/.424 2/2 15/6
45.Snider* G/S/vP 6/.000 2/.000 3/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 7/.429 ··· ··· 319/258 .255/.304/.463/.767 .702/.783 .772 14/.690 6/3 14/3
IP 192.2 55.1 48.2 74.2 23.2 48.0 39.2 60.2 TOTAL .304/.371/.548/.919 .921/.918 .919 .919 3/0 8/5
ERA-K/9 3.50/5.3 2.28/9.1 3.70/8.5 3.01/8.6 3.04/4.9 2.81/8.8 /0.0 4.31/9.1 3.26/6.1 3.75/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (3-2-1)
 Molina (19-15-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 781/.249 222/.216 220/.274 304/.194 93/.233 196/.181 / 171/.240 257/.241 .257  Bautista
 Rivera
 Davis
 Snider
 Nix
 McDonald
 Lind
 McCoy
0/1/113/12
83/1/25/8
47/83/27/5
53/0/29/3
2/0/1/1
2/0/0/0
16/0/0/0
8/2/6/0
OPS .668 .619 .758 .620 .736 .607 .746 .694 .700
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 198/.706 100/.771 97/.598 104/.586 16/.875 55/.371 / 61/.920 78/1.034 .670
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 583/.655 122/.496 123/.892 200/.637 77/.705 141/.696 / 110/.656 179/.560 .715
Road 341/.695 122/.579 112/.771 165/.628 68/.646 81/.586 / 82/.885 130/.865
Last 28d days / 9/1.194 13/.167 8/2.417 5/.200 6/1.350 33/.595 3/.000 4/.500
HR/SB/CS 17/1/2 3/2/2 7/1/1 9/4/1 5/0/1 5/3/1 // 6/3/0 4/2/1 3/7/2
Usage o··X···· o·X·o··· ···oX··· ····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.