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Game Preview: CLE @ OAK, 9:05pm, Saturday, April 21, 2012 @The Coliseum

Indians, 7-5, 7-5 2nd, 1½ GB, tied for WC

SP: Jeanmar Gomez (24, RHP, 0-0, 2.25)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (0-0) 4.0 0 1 1 0 3 0 2.25
2011 (5-3) 58.1 73 31 29 15 31 6 4.47
2010 (4-5) 57.2 73 36 30 22 34 7 4.68
Last 7 GS 5-1 36.2 39 17 15 10 20 2 3.68 49
2012-04-14 @KCR ND 2.0 0 1 1 0 0 0 20 52
2011-09-27 @DET L 4.2 10 8 8 2 5 2 87 15
2011-09-22 CHW W 6.0 4 2 1 2 3 0 86 59
2011-09-17 @MIN W 6.2 7 2 2 2 3 0 97 53
2011-09-09 @CHW W 6.0 6 2 2 0 3 0 91 55
2011-09-04 @KCR W 5.1 6 1 1 3 2 0 93 51
2011-08-30 OAK W 6.0 6 1 0 1 4 0 88 61
Last 5 v.OAK 1-0 11.1 12 2 1 3 5 0 0.79 56
2011-08-30 OAK W 6.0 6 1 0 1 4 0 88 61
2011-05-05 @OAK ND 5.1 6 1 1 2 1 0 97 51
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    1-4    Road:    6-1    ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:   6-1    vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   4-0 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 3-2    vsWest:  3-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 12 Fri, Apr 20  @OAK  W   4-3        7-5   2nd  1.5 gb
 11 Thu, Apr 19  @SEA  W   2-1        6-5   2nd  2.0 gb
 10 Wed, Apr 18  @SEA  L   1-4        5-5   3rd  3.0 gb
  9 Tue, Apr 17  @SEA  W   9-8        5-4   2nd  2.0 gb
  8 Sun, Apr 15  @KCR  W  13-7        4-4   3rd  1.5 gb
  7 Sat, Apr 14  @KCR  W  11-9 (10)   3-4   3rd  2.0 gb
  6 Fri, Apr 13  @KCR  W   8-3        2-4   4th  2.5 gb
  5 Wed, Apr 11   CHW  L   6-10       1-4   4th  3.0 gb
  4 Mon, Apr  9   CHW  L   2-4        1-3   4th  2.5 gb
  3 Sun, Apr  8   TOR  W   4-3        1-2   3rd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20: 7-5    Last 30: 7-5
Athletics, 7-8, 7-8 2nd, 5 GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Brandon McCarthy (28, RHP, 0-2, 3.60)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (0-2) 25.0 30 13 10 4 14 3 3.60
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 1-3 47.0 49 19 16 6 29 6 3.06 55
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
2011-09-21 TEX ND 7.0 6 1 1 0 1 0 79 62
2011-09-15 DET W 7.0 5 1 1 2 8 1 104 69
Last 5 v.CLE 3-1 30.0 21 12 12 14 25 6 3.60 56
2011-08-29 @CLE L 8.0 5 2 2 1 10 1 104 73
2009-09-08 @CLE W 6.1 5 5 5 2 4 2 105 45
2009-04-09 CLE W 5.0 4 3 3 4 7 2 105 50
2008-08-23 CLE ND 4.0 3 1 1 4 3 0 75 51
2007-07-31 @CLE W 6.2 4 1 1 3 1 1 90 60
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    3-5    Road:    4-3    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:   4-6    vsLHP:   3-2    1-Run:   2-2 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 2-2    vsWest:  5-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 15 Fri, Apr 20   CLE  L   3-4        7-8   2nd  5.0 gb
 14 Thu, Apr 19  @LAA  W   4-2        7-7   2nd  4.5 gb
 13 Wed, Apr 18  @LAA  W   6-0        6-7   3rd  4.5 gb
 12 Tue, Apr 17  @LAA  W   5-3        5-7   3rd  4.5 gb
 11 Mon, Apr 16  @LAA  L   0-6        4-7   4th  4.5 gb
 10 Sun, Apr 15  @SEA  L   3-5        4-6   3rd  4.0 gb
  9 Sat, Apr 14  @SEA  L   0-4        4-5   3rd  3.0 gb
  8 Fri, Apr 13  @SEA  W   4-0        4-4   2nd  2.0 gb
  7 Wed, Apr 11   KCR  W   5-4 (12)   3-4   3rd  1.5 gb
  6 Tue, Apr 10   KCR  L   0-3  (8)   2-4   4th  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 7-8    Last 30: 7-8 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Apr 20, 2012 CLE  4 @OAK  3        W:Ubaldo Jimenez (2-0), L: Graham Godfrey (0-3), S: Chris Perez (5)

Thu, Sep 01, 2011 OAK  7 @CLE  0        W:Gio Gonzalez (12-11), L: Roberto Hernandez (6-13), S: none
Wed, Aug 31, 2011 CLE  4  OAK  3 (16)   W:Frank Herrmann (4-0), L: Josh Outman (3-4), S: none
Tue, Aug 30, 2011 CLE  6  OAK  2        W:Jeanmar Gomez (1-2), L: Trevor Cahill (9-13), S: none
Mon, Aug 29, 2011 CLE  2  OAK  1        W:David Huff (2-2), L: Brandon McCarthy (7-7), S: Chris Perez (30)
Thu, May 05, 2011 CLE  4 @OAK  3 (12)   W:Chad Durbin (2-1), L: Craig Breslow (0-2), S: Chris Perez (9)
Wed, May 04, 2011 OAK  3  CLE  1        W:Trevor Cahill (5-0), L: Josh Tomlin (4-1), S: Grant Balfour (1)
Tue, May 03, 2011 CLE  4 @OAK  1        W:Roberto Hernandez (3-3), L: Brian Fuentes (1-3), S: Chris Perez (8)
Thu, Aug 26, 2010 CLE  3  OAK  2        W:Justin Masterson (5-12), L: Vin Mazzaro (6-6), S: Chris Perez (16)
Wed, Aug 25, 2010 OAK  6 @CLE  1        W:Trevor Cahill (14-5), L: Mitch Talbot (8-11), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - CLE over 1-0; 2011 - CLE won 5-2; 2010 - OAK won 6-3; All-Time - CLE leads 1014-885

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

For the 2011 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.40

CLE  4.35

SEA  3.43

 RA/G

PHI  3.27

FLA  4.33

BAL  5.31

 BA

M. Cabrera  .344

A. Ramirez  .269

V. Wells  .218

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .448

J. Bruce  .341

V. Wells  .248

 SLG

J. Bautista  .608

C. Lee  .446

J. Bartlett  .307

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.056

Y. Escobar  .782

A. Rios  .613

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.28

J. Vazquez  3.69

B. Penny  5.30

 K/9IP

Z. Greinke  10.54

G. Floyd  7.02

B. Penny  3.67

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2012 season. Player Stats for the 2011 season. We will switch to 2012 stats on May 1st.

Indians Batters (5.67 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.33 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		 60.De Los Santos
G/S/vB		 40.Fuentes*
G/S/vB		 77.Norberto*
G/S/vB		 54.Thompson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Brantley* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· 3/.333 1/3.000 2/.000 496/338 .266/.318/.384/.702 .525/.782 .706 53/.642 13/5 7/3
17.Choo* G/S/vP 8/.393 2/1.000 4/1.500 ··· ··· 6/.750 1/.000 1/2.000 358/239 .259/.344/.390/.733 .688/.757 .658 59/.688 12/5 8/4
2.Cunningham G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 101/52 .178/.257/.367/.624 .652/.598 .752 16/.552 1/0 3/0
16.Donald G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 143/77 .318/.364/.402/.765 .949/.607 .622 29/.414 3/2 1/4
47.Duncan G/S/vP 2/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 247/133 .260/.324/.484/.808 .679/.918 .930 49/.908 0/1 11/2
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 14/1.346 3/1.667 7/.286 ··· 1/no AB 3/.666 1/no AB 1/.000 368/260 .280/.361/.449/.811 .638/.886 .758 46/1.034 0/0 13/
9.Hannahan* G/S/vP 3/1.667 4/1.167 2/.000 ··· 1/5.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 2/.000 366/246 .250/.331/.388/.719 .811/.673 .639 41/.885 2/1 8/5
22.Kipnis* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 150/107 .272/.333/.507/.841 .744/.878 .873 55/.622 5/0 7/6
35.Kotchman* G/S/vP 16/.971 4/.250 5/.450 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 563/401 .306/.378/.422/.800 .709/.838 .751 52/.554 2/2 10/2
4.Lopez G/S/vP 14/.517 4/.000 5/1.200 ··· ··· 6/1.500 ··· 2/.000 242/164 .216/.245/.372/.617 .582/.634 .553 13/.769 2/0 8/5
6.Marson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.000 272/164 .230/.300/.296/.596 .793/.474 .691 8/.375 4/2 1/5
41.Santana# G/S/vP 3/2.334 2/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 658/441 .239/.351/.457/.808 .964/.736 .787 54/.950 5/3 27/11
IP 170.2 62.0 28.1 7.2 33.1 58.1 6.2 54.0 TOTAL .238/.342/.405/.747 .728/.761 .844 .747 8/3 16/9
ERA-K/9 3.32/6.5 2.47/8.6 2.86/8.3 7.04/8.2 4.32/11.6 3.70/6.5 8.10/5.4 3.00/9.3 2.99/5.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Marson (48-30-5)
 Santana (56-18-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 690/.258 242/.199 122/.235 41/.333 143/.220 250/.237 35/.308 228/.224 .228  Choo
 Brantley
 Duncan
 Cunningham
0/0/85/9
66/52/0/5
37/0/2/2
13/0/18/1
OPS .659 .605 .688 .797 .670 .656 .803 .637 .640
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 366/.675 119/.579 50/.759 19/.734 59/.530 90/.688 13/.795 110/.621 .682
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 324/.640 123/.630 72/.636 22/.853 84/.770 160/.637 22/.807 118/.651 .598
Home 341/.632 136/.570 51/.630 28/.733 63/.568 117/.745 10/.200 116/.548
Last 28d days 107/.790 31/.368 22/.985 22/.287 16/.745 23/.536 31/.569 13/1.212
HR/SB/CS 11/11/4 8/1/0 2/1/0 0/3/0 4/6/1 6/6/1 0/0/0 5/6/1 11/6/7
Usage ····X··· ·o·X···o X·····X· ·X·o···X ooo···X· ·X·o·o·· Xo···X·· ········

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2012 season. Player Stats for the 2011 season. We will switch to 2012 stats on May 1st.

Athletics Batters (3.07 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (5.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 58.Gomez
G/S/vB		 50.Hagadone*
G/S/vB		 54.Perez
G/S/vB		 53.Perez*
G/S/vB		 52.Pestano
G/S/vB		 49.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 38.Smith
G/S/vB		 32.Asencio
G/S/vB		 44.Wheeler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 2/.500 6/1.667 2/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 280/191 .212/.325/.267/.592 .720/.533 .588 33/.542 2/1 0/8
52.Cespedes G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· / /// / 58/.930 / /
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/.000 1/.000 6/.167 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 583/386 .264/.314/.379/.693 .593/.749 .736 48/.364 49/9 8/1
20.Donaldson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 32/.188 / /
31.Gomes G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.000 7/.429 1/.000 2/.500 5/.933 ··· ··· 372/264 .209/.325/.389/.714 .863/.654 .695 30/1.009 7/3 14/2
25.Ka'aihue* G/S/vP 11/.899 ··· 2/1.500 5/.400 3/.000 2/2.500 2/.000 ··· ··· 96/70 .195/.295/.317/.612 .453/.672 .595 24/.766 0/0 2/2
2.Pennington# G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 2/1.000 6/1.000 1/.000 5/.400 2/.000 ··· 2/3.000 570/401 .264/.319/.369/.687 .670/.693 .616 58/.518 14/9 8/22
26.Recker G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/12 .176/.333/.235/.569 .730/.450 .250 8/.700 0/0 0/1
16.Reddick* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 278/234 .280/.327/.457/.784 .766/.787 .741 57/.780 1/2 7/5
15.Smith* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/2.500 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 533/430 .284/.347/.483/.830 .576/.891 .848 48/.543 10/2 15/5
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 74/61 .200/.243/.329/.572 .154/.652 .419 27/.593 0/0 2/2
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 4/1.250 ··· 5/.000 5/.000 1/.000 3/.000 4/.000 ··· 7/.286 515/366 .237/.301/.385/.686 .617/.713 .665 50/.471 2/2 14/7
19.Weeks# G/S/vP 3/.666 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.500 3/2.334 ··· ··· 1/.000 437/293 .303/.340/.421/.761 .704/.787 .794 68/.662 22/11 2/13
IP 58.1 11.0 59.2 63.0 62.0 62.1 67.0 10.1 49.1 TOTAL .204/.279/.328/.607 .603/.609 .630 .607 11/4 13/8
ERA-K/9 4.47/4.8 4.09/9.0 3.32/5.9 3.00/4.7 2.32/12.2 3.03/8.2 2.01/6.0 6.97/7.0 4.38/7.1 4.65/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Recker (5-0-0)
 Suzuki (98-38-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 259/.303 42/.118 248/.215 257/.253 250/.184 251/.201 267/.217 52/.340 201/.246 .257  Smith
 Reddick
 Crisp
 Gomes
25/0/107/5
21/3/56/5
0/133/0/2
73/0/11/1
OPS .804 .380 .648 .650 .577 .664 .541 .914 .694 .743
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 127/.855 17/.248 131/.598 128/.594 103/.812 105/.664 90/.460 18/.583 78/.764 .769
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 132/.756 25/.470 117/.702 129/.708 147/.410 146/.665 177/.582 34/1.086 123/.649 .713
Road 183/.858 16/.466 114/.744 111/.666 137/.535 107/.706 137/.602 42/.957 82/.744
Last 28d days 13/.077 9/.111 31/.592 20/.744 27/.739 21/1.143 29/.764 40/.696 20/.821
HR/SB/CS 6/6/4 0/0/1 5/8/0 2/2/4 5/1/0 10/13/2 1/4/3 1/0/0 7/1/2 12/2/4
Usage ······X· ··oX···· Xo·X··o· ···X·oo· o··X··oX o····oXo X··X··oX ··X··Xo· ··X··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.