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Game Preview: OAK @ KCR, 8:10pm, Friday, June 1, 2012 @Kauffman Stadium

Athletics, 22-29, 22-29 3rd, 9 GB, 7 GB in WC

SP: Bartolo Colon (39, RHP, 4-5, 4.52)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (4-5) 67.2 78 35 34 10 41 10 4.52
2011 (8-10) 164.1 172 85 73 40 135 21 4.00
2009 (3-6) 62.1 69 42 29 21 38 13 4.19
Last 7 GS 1-4 40.1 58 27 26 8 22 9 5.80 41
2012-05-26 NYY L 6.0 9 6 6 0 3 2 74 33
2012-05-20 @SFG W 5.0 6 2 2 2 7 0 92 52
2012-05-15 @LAA L 6.2 12 4 4 0 3 1 89 37
2012-05-10 DET L 2.1 9 8 7 0 0 1 44 9
2012-05-05 @TBR ND 5.0 8 3 3 2 2 3 83 39
2012-04-29 @BAL ND 8.1 7 2 2 1 5 0 106 65
2012-04-23 CHW L 7.0 7 2 2 3 2 2 89 54
Last 5 v.KCR 2-3 26.0 33 19 17 10 21 5 5.88 43
2011-08-17 @KCR L 5.0 7 5 5 2 4 2 99 35
2009-05-04 @KCR L 5.0 7 3 2 3 7 1 98 47
2008-05-21 KCR W 5.0 6 2 2 2 4 0 74 49
2007-05-01 @KCR W 5.0 9 5 5 1 5 1 95 33
2006-07-21 @KCR L 6.0 4 4 3 2 1 1 99 49
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-15   Road:   12-14   ExtrInn: 4-2 
 vsRHP:  14-20   vsLHP:   8-9    1-Run:   6-4 
 vsEast:  6-8    vsCntrl: 7-9    vsWest:  8-10 IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 51 Wed, May 30  @MIN  L   0-4       22-29  3rd  9.0 gb
 50 Tue, May 29  @MIN  L   2-3       22-28  3rd  9.0 gb
 49 Mon, May 28  @MIN  L   4-5       22-27  3rd  9.0 gb
 48 Sun, May 27   NYY  L   0-2       22-26  3rd  8.0 gb
 47 Sat, May 26   NYY  L   2-9       22-25  3rd  7.0 gb
 46 Fri, May 25   NYY  L   3-6       22-24  2nd  6.0 gb
 45 Wed, May 23   LAA  L   1-3 (11)  22-23  2nd  5.0 gb
 44 Tue, May 22   LAA  L   0-5       22-22  2nd  5.0 gb
 43 Mon, May 21   LAA  W   2-1       22-21  2nd  4.0 gb
 42 Sun, May 20  @SFG  W   6-2       21-21  2nd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:11-19
Royals, 21-28, 21-28 4th, 7 GB, 7 GB in WC

SP: Felipe Paulino (28, RHP, 2-1, 2.03)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (2-1) 31.0 27 7 7 12 34 3 2.03
2011 (4-10) 139.1 146 74 69 55 133 13 4.46
2010 (1-9) 91.2 95 63 52 46 83 4 5.11
Last 7 GS 3-1 42.0 39 12 12 16 51 4 2.57 58
2012-05-26 @BAL ND 5.2 5 3 3 5 5 2 109 47
2012-05-21 @NYY W 6.2 6 0 0 2 8 0 109 68
2012-05-16 BAL ND 7.0 5 0 0 2 9 0 103 74
2012-05-11 @CHW L 5.2 7 4 4 1 6 1 113 44
2012-05-05 NYY W 6.0 4 0 0 2 6 0 96 68
2011-09-26 @MIN W 6.0 6 3 3 2 9 1 104 55
2011-09-21 DET ND 5.0 6 2 2 2 8 0 103 53
Last 5 v.OAK 0-0 4.1 4 6 6 6 4 1 12.46 29
2011-09-05 @OAK ND 4.1 4 6 6 6 4 1 96 29
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-17   Road:   16-11   ExtrInn: 0-3 
 vsRHP:  17-19   vsLHP:   4-9    1-Run:   5-8 
 vsEast:  7-12   vsCntrl: 8-11   vsWest:  5-3  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 49 Wed, May 30  @CLE  W   6-3       21-28  4th  7.0 gb
 48 Tue, May 29  @CLE  W   8-2       20-28  4th  7.0 gb
 47 Mon, May 28  @CLE  L   5-8       19-28  4th  7.5 gb
 46 Sun, May 27  @BAL  W   4-2       19-27  4th  6.5 gb
 45 Sat, May 26  @BAL  W   4-3       18-27  4th  7.5 gb
 44 Fri, May 25  @BAL  L   2-8       17-27  4th  8.5 gb
 43 Wed, May 23  @NYY  L   3-8       17-26  4th  8.0 gb
 42 Tue, May 22  @NYY  L   2-3       17-25  4th  7.0 gb
 41 Mon, May 21  @NYY  W   6-0       17-24  4th  6.0 gb
 40 Sun, May 20   ARI  L   0-2       16-24  4th  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 OAK  5  KCR  4 (12)   W:Andrew Carignan (1-1), L: Jonathan Broxton (0-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 10, 2012 KCR  3 @OAK  0  (8)   W:Danny Duffy (1-0), L: Graham Godfrey (0-1), S: Aaron Crow (1)
Mon, Apr 09, 2012 OAK  1  KCR  0        W:Tommy Milone (1-0), L: Luis Mendoza (0-1), S: Grant Balfour (2)

Wed, Sep 07, 2011 OAK  7  KCR  0        W:Guillermo Moscoso (8-8), L: Bruce Chen (10-7), S: none
Tue, Sep 06, 2011 KCR  7 @OAK  4        W:Danny Duffy (4-8), L: Gio Gonzalez (12-12), S: Joakim Soria (26)
Mon, Sep 05, 2011 KCR 11 @OAK  6        W:Greg Holland (4-1), L: Andrew Bailey (0-4), S: none
Thu, Jun 16, 2011 OAK  8  KCR  4        W:Gio Gonzalez (6-5), L: Jeff Francis (3-7), S: none
Wed, Jun 15, 2011 OAK  2  KCR  1        W:Josh Outman (2-1), L: Luke Hochevar (4-7), S: Andrew Bailey (2)
Tue, Jun 14, 2011 KCR  7 @OAK  4        W:Danny Duffy (1-2), L: Trevor Cahill (6-5), S: Joakim Soria (10)
Sun, May 08, 2011 OAK  5 @KCR  2        W:Tyson Ross (2-2), L: Jeff Francis (0-4), S: Brian Fuentes (9)
Season Series: 2012 - OAK over 2-1; 2011 - OAK won 5-4; 2010 - OAK won 6-3; All-Time - OAK leads 298-244

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

TEX  5.71

TBR  4.24

PIT  2.94

 RA/G

WSN  3.34

HOU  4.35

COL  5.58

 BA

P. Konerko  .381

M. Aviles  .264

R. Weeks  .158

 OBP

D. Wright  .463

L. Morrison  .333

I. Davis  .228

 SLG

J. Hamilton  .764

C. Rasmus  .429

K. Suzuki  .260

 OPS

J. Hamilton  1.184

C. Johnson  .759

K. Suzuki  .504

 ERA

B. Beachy  1.77

J. Westbrook  3.84

C. Buchholz  7.19

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.70

L. Hochevar  7.40

H. Alvarez  2.60

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

Athletics Batters (3.22 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.47 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 59.Paulino
G/S/vB		 51.Broxton
G/S/vB		 31.Coleman
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 32.Mazzaro
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 53.Smith*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 2/.500 ··· 2/.500 ··· 8/.542 ··· 126/91 .198/.325/.283/.608 .544/.634 .724 70/.603 1/0 1/0
12.Cowgill G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 60/36 .245/.333/.264/.597 1.015/.342 .676 53/.606 2/3 0/0
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 2/2.500 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 110/79 .178/.231/.198/.430 .412/.436 .533 37/.348 7/0 0/1
20.Donaldson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 86/57 .141/.140/.235/.375 .345/.390 .425 54/.487 1/0 1/5
31.Gomes G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 123/65 .220/.366/.400/.766 .831/.709 .889 69/.686 2/0 5/0
7.Inge G/S/vP 5/.000 2/.000 4/.000 1/no AB 3/.000 2/.000 3/.666 3/1.167 6/.334 ··· 79/46 .183/.253/.437/.690 .679/.697 .580 42/.944 0/0 5/2
25.Ka'aihue* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 118/84 .239/.297/.394/.691 .761/.662 .663 58/.642 1/0 3/1
2.Pennington# G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· 3/.666 1/5.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 191/132 .200/.259/.274/.534 .488/.554 .629 88/.477 7/2 1/5
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 4/.250 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 214/144 .266/.333/.547/.880 .843/.898 .862 104/1.041 5/0 14/2
17.Rosales G/S/vP 6/.533 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 15/3 .200/.467/.200/.667 .533/ 1.025 15/.667 0/0 0/0
15.Smith* G/S/vP 8/.929 5/.200 ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· 158/135 .229/.354/.351/.706 .451/.752 .600 76/.721 1/1 4/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 2/2.000 1/2.000 1/5.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 4/.833 ··· 164/118 .208/.244/.260/.504 .608/.463 .553 72/.421 1/0 0/2
19.Weeks# G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/no AB ··· 4/.750 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 209/139 .215/.298/.312/.610 .705/.560 .584 96/.673 10/4 2/5
IP 31.0 19.2 15.2 26.0 22.1 27.0 13.0 6.0 21.2 9.1 TOTAL .210/.288/.332/.620 .643/.609 .635 .628 43/12 42/31
ERA-K/9 2.03/9.9 1.83/5.5 3.45/7.5 2.42/13.2 2.82/8.5 3.33/8.0 6.23/12.5 4.50/3.0 2.49/6.6 6.75/5.8 4.29/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Suzuki (23-10-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 130/.233 83/.254 65/.200 104/.188 87/.169 104/.220 63/.294 25/.304 93/.265 41/.263 .264  Reddick
 Smith
 Cowgill
 Crisp
 Gomes
0/6/44/5
21/0/5/2
6/10/3/1
16/10/0/1
17/0/0/0
OPS .707 .685 .731 .584 .472 .650 .776 .711 .709 .843 .746
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 79/.603 42/.793 27/1.016 49/.667 33/.354 43/.718 27/.862 8/1.167 53/.535 16/.741 .750
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 51/.864 41/.579 38/.509 55/.515 54/.544 61/.602 36/.710 17/.529 40/.946 25/.903 .743
Home 51/.499 33/.838 44/.583 37/.981 41/.487 52/.643 26/1.070 / 41/.866 /
Last 28d days 130/.707 43/.668 28/.590 45/.586 36/.379 56/.455 27/.413 25/.711 43/.802 41/.843
HR/SB/CS 3/2/1 1/0/1 3/0/2 3/5/0 1/0/1 4/3/2 0/0/0 0/2/0 2/2/1 3/2/0 42/45/19
Usage ·····X·· ·X··oX·· ······X· ·XX·oX·· ·oo·o··· ··X·X·X· ···X·o·· ········ ·X·Xoo·· ··X·····
Royals Batters (4.08 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.96 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 21.Colon
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 54.Blackley*
G/S/vB		 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 38.Carignan
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
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
16.Butler G/S/vP 11/1.155 9/.236 ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 4/.500 ··· ··· 210/154 .289/.352/.521/.873 1.163/.774 .874 104/.919 0/1 11/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 128/92 .252/.323/.306/.629 .504/.678 .517 93/.581 8/3 0/3
2.Escobar G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 2/.000 191/141 .303/.344/.404/.748 .777/.738 .837 95/.762 8/1 1/4
19.Falu# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 45/31 .326/.326/.442/.767 1.000/.667 1.158 45/.767 0/0 0/2
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 3/.333 3/.667 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 5/.000 ··· ··· 202/150 .280/.327/.450/.776 .876/.743 .665 98/.939 1/3 5/1
9.Giavotella G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 50/20 .239/.300/.304/.604 .526/.718 .485 50/.604 0/0 0/3
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 9/1.389 9/.111 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.850 ··· 1/.000 221/151 .237/.330/.366/.696 .642/.721 .678 110/.637 1/1 4/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 202/142 .204/.267/.349/.617 .431/.696 .534 91/.558 2/1 6/3
12.Maier* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 ··· 5/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 63/46 .200/.290/.364/.654 .750/.608 .464 20/.474 1/0 2/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 2/2.500 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 185/137 .272/.335/.485/.820 .597/.902 .887 89/.716 1/0 8/6
27.Pena# G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/.143 ··· 1/.000 87/63 .271/.287/.376/.664 .583/.695 .786 39/.718 0/1 1/1
33.Quintero G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 105/80 .242/.276/.384/.660 .461/.721 .626 57/.649 0/1 1/4
IP 67.2 25.1 16.0 23.0 7.1 24.0 19.2 13.2 25.1 TOTAL .261/.317/.404/.722 .669/.742 .718 .708 29/15 40/34
ERA-K/9 4.52/5.5 3.55/6.8 3.38/5.1 1.96/8.6 6.14/7.4 0.75/7.9 4.12/6.9 1.32/7.9 3.91/6.4 3.69/5.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (22-9-1)
 Quintero (23-10-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 288/.286 102/.200 66/.230 88/.200 34/.240 91/.080 83/.237 54/.200 102/.184 .250  Francoeur
 Gordon
 Dyson
 Maier
0/0/48/5
48/0/0/3
0/29/0/1
0/15/1/0
OPS .772 .651 .610 .687 .744 .342 .675 .559 .553 .711
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 165/.857 61/.567 18/.625 42/.709 14/.585 42/.367 33/.751 24/.481 40/.476 .785
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 123/.659 41/.766 48/.606 46/.662 20/.850 49/.322 50/.627 30/.621 62/.596 .648
Road 164/.661 52/.801 38/.697 37/.597 13/.308 57/.464 46/.646 22/.482 47/.403
Last 28d days 123/1.051 48/.584 54/.597 47/.537 13/.585 47/.371 40/.635 33/.499 55/.445
HR/SB/CS 10/1/0 3/1/2 1/0/0 3/1/2 0/0/0 0/2/1 2/1/0 1/1/0 1/1/1 45/30/15
Usage ·····X·· ··XXo··· ···X···· ··o···X· ·o······ ···Xo··· ··X·o··· ·o····X· ·X·X·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.