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Game Preview: OAK @ BOS, 7:10pm, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 @Fenway Park

Athletics, 12-13, 12-13 2nd, 5½ GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Brandon McCarthy (28, RHP, 1-3, 3.23)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (1-3) 39.0 45 17 14 10 22 3 3.23
2011 (9-9) 170.2 168 73 63 25 123 11 3.32
2009 (7-4) 97.1 96 55 50 36 65 13 4.62
Last 7 GS 1-4 47.0 53 21 18 10 28 5 3.45 52
2012-04-27 @BAL W 7.0 5 2 2 3 4 0 97 60
2012-04-21 CLE L 7.0 10 2 2 3 4 0 113 50
2012-04-16 @LAA L 7.0 11 5 5 0 4 1 99 39
2012-04-11 KCR ND 6.0 6 2 2 2 4 1 102 54
2012-04-06 SEA L 5.0 7 5 2 2 3 0 95 40
2012-03-28 SEA ND 7.0 6 1 1 0 3 1 82 64
2011-09-26 @SEA L 8.0 8 4 4 0 6 2 114 56
Last 5 v.BOS 1-2 18.0 17 14 14 11 10 1 7.00 43
2008-09-07 BOS L 5.1 7 6 6 3 1 1 94 28
2007-07-02 @BOS L 3.2 6 4 4 3 1 0 81 31
2007-05-25 BOS ND 2.0 1 4 4 4 1 0 66 35
2005-09-05 @BOS W 7.0 3 0 0 1 7 0 121 77
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    6-7    Road:    6-6    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   7-10   vsLHP:   5-3    1-Run:   3-2 
 vsEast:  2-3    vsCntrl: 5-4    vsWest:  5-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 25 Tue, May  1  @BOS  W   5-3       12-13  2nd  5.5 gb
 24 Mon, Apr 30  @BOS  L   6-11      11-13  2nd  6.5 gb
 23 Sun, Apr 29  @BAL  L   2-5       11-12  2nd  5.5 gb
 22 Sat, Apr 28  @BAL  L   1-10      11-11  2nd  5.5 gb
 21 Fri, Apr 27  @BAL  W   5-2       11-10  2nd  4.5 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 25   CHW  W   5-4 (14)  10-10  2nd  5.5 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 24   CHW  W   2-0        9-10  2nd  5.5 gb
 18 Mon, Apr 23   CHW  L   0-4        8-10  2nd  5.5 gb
 17 Sun, Apr 22   CLE  W   5-1        8-9   2nd  5.5 gb
 16 Sat, Apr 21   CLE  L   1-5        7-9   2nd  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:12-13
RedSox, 11-12, 11-12 5th, 4½ GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Daniel Bard (27, RHP, 2-2, 3.72)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (2-2) 19.1 18 9 8 10 19 1 3.72
2011 (2-9) 73.0 46 29 27 24 74 5 3.33
2010 (1-2) 74.2 45 18 16 30 76 6 1.93
Last 7 GS 1-2 18.2 18 9 8 9 19 1 3.86 53
2012-04-27 @CHW W 7.0 6 3 2 1 6 1 96 60
2012-04-16 TBR L 6.2 4 1 1 7 7 0 111 62
2012-04-10 @TOR L 5.0 8 5 5 1 6 0 96 36
Has never faced OAK as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-6    Road:    7-6    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   7-10   vsLHP:   4-2    1-Run:   3-3 
 vsEast:  4-5    vsCntrl: 6-4    vsWest:  1-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 23 Tue, May  1   OAK  L   3-5       11-12  5th  4.5 gb
 22 Mon, Apr 30   OAK  W  11-6       11-11  5th  3.5 gb
 21 Sun, Apr 29  @CHW  L   1-4       10-11  5th  3.5 gb
 20 Sat, Apr 28  @CHW  W   1-0       10-10  5th  2.5 gb
 19 Fri, Apr 27  @CHW  W  10-3        9-10  5th  3.5 gb
 18 Thu, Apr 26  @CHW  W  10-3        8-10  5th  3.5 gb
 17 Wed, Apr 25  @MIN  W   7-6        7-10  5th  3.5 gb
 16 Tue, Apr 24  @MIN  W  11-2        6-10  5th  3.5 gb
 15 Mon, Apr 23  @MIN  W   6-5        5-10  5th  4.5 gb
 14 Sat, Apr 21   NYY  L   9-15       4-10  5th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:11-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 01, 2012 OAK  5 @BOS  3        W:Jarrod Parker (1-0), L: Felix Doubront (1-1), S: Jordan Norberto (1)
Mon, Apr 30, 2012 BOS 11  OAK  6        W:Clay Buchholz (3-1), L: Tommy Milone (3-2), S: none

Sat, Aug 27, 2011 BOS  4  OAK  0        W:Alfredo Aceves (9-1), L: Graham Godfrey (1-2), S: none
Sat, Aug 27, 2011 BOS  9  OAK  3        W:Jon Lester (14-6), L: Guillermo Moscoso (6-8), S: none
Fri, Aug 26, 2011 OAK 15 @BOS  5        W:Gio Gonzalez (11-11), L: Tim Wakefield (6-6), S: none
Sun, Jun 05, 2011 BOS  6  OAK  3        W:John Lackey (3-5), L: Brett Anderson (3-6), S: Daniel Bard (1)
Sat, Jun 04, 2011 BOS  9  OAK  8 (14)   W:Alfredo Aceves (3-1), L: Guillermo Moscoso (2-1), S: none
Fri, Jun 03, 2011 BOS  8  OAK  6        W:Bobby Jenks (2-2), L: Joey Devine (0-1), S: Jonathan Papelbon (11)
Wed, Apr 20, 2011 BOS  5 @OAK  3        W:Clay Buchholz (1-2), L: Gio Gonzalez (2-1), S: Jonathan Papelbon (3)
Tue, Apr 19, 2011 OAK  5  BOS  0        W:Brett Anderson (1-1), L: John Lackey (1-2), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - tied 1-1; 2011 - BOS won 6-2; 2010 - OAK won 5-4; All-Time - BOS leads 1056-862

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 2012 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  5.65

CHW  4.00

PIT  2.83

 RA/G

WSN  2.78

ATL  4.13

BOS  5.61

 BA

M. Kemp  .409

A. Gonzalez  .261

B. Ryan  .131

 OBP

D. Wright  .495

M. Saunders  .333

C. Barmes  .192

 SLG

M. Kemp  .864

D. Uggla  .416

M. Byrd  .195

 OPS

M. Kemp  1.349

M. Cabrera  .757

M. Byrd  .427

 ERA

J. Saunders  .90

C. Zambrano  3.24

C. Buchholz  8.69

 K/9IP

A. Sanchez  11.29

W. Chen  7.04

J. Guthrie  1.85

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

Athletics Batters (3.12 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (5.61 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Bard
G/S/vB		 91.Aceves
G/S/vB		 32.Albers
G/S/vB		 48.Atchison
G/S/vB		 53.Hill*
G/S/vB		 46.Morales*
G/S/vB		 44.Padilla
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP 4/.500 3/.666 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· ··· 7/.286 56/41 .184/.286/.327/.612 .414/.689 .619 56/.612 0/0 1/0
52.Cespedes G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 100/75 .250/.330/.466/.796 1.036/.716 .490 93/.749 4/2 5/0
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 5/.200 2/.000 4/.500 4/1.000 3/1.334 ··· 15/.929 69/51 .206/.275/.222/.498 .583/.468 .525 60/.555 4/0 0/1
31.Gomes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 49/24 .195/.327/.488/.814 .564/1.090 .933 45/.766 1/0 4/0
18.Inge G/S/vP 1/no AB 2/.000 8/.833 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 11/.764 29/12 .107/.138/.250/.388 .471/.258 .436 29/.388 0/0 1/1
25.Ka'aihue* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 52/32 .313/.365/.375/.740 .976/.588 .858 49/.745 1/0 0/0
2.Pennington# G/S/vP 6/.666 4/.250 6/1.100 7/1.238 ··· ··· 6/1.867 94/66 .213/.255/.281/.536 .401/.594 .637 85/.510 4/1 0/2
26.Recker G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 18/14 .267/.389/.333/.722 .250/.845 .764 18/.722 0/0 0/0
16.Reddick* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 1/3.000 2/.000 ··· 102/69 .276/.304/.480/.784 .787/.782 .944 95/.756 3/0 4/0
15.Smith* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 5/.800 77/71 .197/.351/.295/.646 .533/.656 .559 72/.645 1/1 2/0
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 51/39 .152/.220/.304/.524 .333/.590 .874 47/.572 1/0 2/2
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 5/.200 3/1.334 9/.347 6/.334 2/.500 ··· 12/1.778 85/60 .229/.235/.301/.536 .640/.493 .470 76/.561 0/0 0/1
19.Weeks# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/1.500 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 109/72 .192/.266/.313/.579 .615/.559 .571 100/.600 5/2 2/4
IP 19.1 7.0 9.1 14.1 2.1 8.1 9.0 TOTAL .212/.281/.331/.612 .613/.611 .628 .611 25/7 20/18
ERA-K/9 3.72/8.9 10.29/10.3 1.93/3.9 1.88/8.2 3.86/11.7 4.32/7.6 8.00/11.0 5.51/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Recker (1-3-0)
 Suzuki (8-8-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 86/.240 37/.300 37/.257 59/.236 10/.250 37/.281 41/.289 .277  Reddick
 Cespedes
 Smith
 Crisp
 Gomes
0/0/23/4
0/24/0/2
6/0/1/1
15/1/0/0
7/0/0/0
OPS .671 .932 .669 .580 .775 .664 .868 .801
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 35/.716 18/1.000 14/1.250 26/.599 5/1.267 14/.381 17/.706 .860
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 51/.640 19/.868 23/.348 33/.565 5/.400 23/.835 24/.988 .759
Home 30/.627 16/.938 20/.721 35/.762 6/.500 20/.938 19/1.307
Last 28d days 86/.671 37/.932 37/.669 59/.580 10/.775 37/.664 41/.868
HR/SB/CS 1/4/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 1/0/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 31/13/1
Usage ····X··· ·X·X··X· X···X·oo Xoo···oX X·X····· ·o·o··X· ·o·o··o·
RedSox Batters (5.65 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.80 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		 48.Cook
G/S/vB		 65.Figueroa*
G/S/vB		 40.Fuentes*
G/S/vB		 53.Miller
G/S/vB		 77.Norberto*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Aviles G/S/vP 4/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 5/.900 1/.000 1/5.000 98/72 .286/.323/.516/.839 1.183/.722 .951 98/.839 3/1 5/3
23.Byrd G/S/vP ··· 6/.900 4/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 2/1.500 82/59 .182/.232/.195/.427 .962/.329 .333 82/.427 0/1 0/1
28.Gonzalez* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 1/no AB ··· 13/.462 1/no AB 6/.667 102/67 .261/.333/.386/.720 .621/.773 .661 102/.720 0/0 2/0
76.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
54.McDonald G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 46/25 .205/.304/.462/.766 .786/.741 .833 46/.766 1/0 2/0
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 12/1.017 10/.775 6/1.000 1/.000 ··· 8/1.071 1/no AB ··· 98/67 .386/.439/.693/1.132 1.346/1.028 1.484 98/1.132 0/1 6/
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 6/.833 8/.708 7/1.881 1/.000 ··· 4/.250 2/2.500 2/.000 104/75 .296/.337/.469/.806 .401/.949 .724 104/.806 2/1 3/1
5.Punto# G/S/vP 3/.666 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB 30/25 .174/.333/.217/.551 .900/.478 .357 30/.551 0/0 0/1
7.Ross G/S/vP ··· 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· 7/.000 ··· ··· 86/63 .282/.337/.538/.876 .733/.928 1.030 86/.876 0/1 5/0
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 56/54 .241/.268/.519/.786 .000/.816 .760 56/.786 0/0 4/1
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 8/2.292 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 37/19 .258/.378/.419/.798 .544/1.036 1.313 37/.798 1/0 0/0
12.Sweeney* G/S/vP 9/.444 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 74/65 .362/.392/.551/.943 .333/1.031 .877 74/.943 0/0 0/1
20.Youkilis G/S/vP 11/.273 10/1.214 2/.500 ··· ··· 5/1.100 1/.000 ··· 72/54 .219/.292/.344/.635 1.115/.497 .847 72/.635 0/0 2/2
IP 39.0 13.1 9.1 11.0 3.0 9.0 4.1 11.0 TOTAL .278/.335/.465/.800 .807/.798 .887 .800 7/4 29/9
ERA-K/9 3.23/5.1 4.73/7.4 1.93/5.8 0.00/8.2 0.00/3.0 4.00/8.0 2.08/6.3 4.91/6.5 3.39/5.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Saltalamacchia (10-1-1)
 Shoppach (3-0-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 168/.292 54/.204 35/.290 38/.031 12/.222 38/.243 17/.200 47/.231 .244  McDonald
 Ross
 Byrd
 Sweeney
12/2/3/2
13/6/8/1
0/22/0/0
0/0/19/0
OPS .757 .706 .966 .247 .639 .669 .827 .685 .688
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 101/.831 33/.518 20/1.242 21/.143 5/.200 17/1.040 6/1.133 19/.873 .735
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 67/.650 21/.983 15/.536 17/.378 7/.971 21/.381 11/.673 28/.570 .645
Road 59/.802 22/1.146 8/.625 20/.375 4/.833 15/.267 15/.728 15/.629
Last 28d days 142/.792 48/.801 33/.964 35/.269 12/.639 35/.727 17/.827 47/.685
HR/SB/CS 3/5/2 3/0/1 2/1/2 0/0/1 0/0/0 1/1/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 20/9/11
Usage ····X··· X·o·X·oX ···X··X· X···X·X· ···X···· oo····o· ·X·X··o· oX····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.