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Game Preview: BOS @ OAK, 10:05pm, Friday, August 31, 2012 @The Coliseum

RedSox, 62-70, 62-70 4th, 14 GB, 12 GB in WC

SP: Aaron Cook (33, RHP, 3-7, 4.76)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (3-7) 68.0 77 45 36 12 11 9 4.76
2011 (3-10) 97.0 127 67 65 37 48 9 6.03
2010 (6-8) 127.2 147 77 72 52 62 11 5.08
Last 7 GS 1-5 38.1 47 31 25 10 9 7 5.87 39
2012-08-25 KCR ND 6.0 7 3 3 1 0 0 72 45
2012-08-21 LAA L 5.0 11 5 4 1 4 1 85 30
2012-08-15 @BAL L 5.1 3 5 2 3 1 0 71 46
2012-08-06 TEX W 7.0 6 1 1 3 2 0 98 60
2012-08-01 DET L 4.2 9 6 6 0 0 2 86 22
2012-07-27 @NYY L 4.0 7 6 6 1 1 2 65 24
2012-07-21 TOR L 6.1 4 5 3 1 1 2 86 49
Last 5 v.OAK 1-1 22.0 22 5 5 3 9 2 2.05 59
2012-07-04 @OAK L 6.0 9 3 3 1 0 1 80 41
2009-06-28 @OAK W 8.0 9 1 1 1 4 0 110 63
2006-06-21 OAK ND 8.0 4 1 1 1 5 1 95 74
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-38   Road:   30-32   ExtrInn: 2-8 
 vsRHP:  37-53   vsLHP:  25-17   1-Run:  13-17
 vsEast: 20-28   vsCntrl:24-16   vsWest:  7-19 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
132 Thu, Aug 30  @LAA  L   2-5       62-70  4th 14.0 gb
131 Wed, Aug 29  @LAA  L   3-10      62-69  4th 13.5 gb
130 Tue, Aug 28  @LAA  L   5-6       62-68  4th 13.5 gb
129 Mon, Aug 27   KCR  W   5-1       62-67  4th 12.5 gb
128 Sun, Aug 26   KCR  W   8-6       61-67  4th 13.5 gb
127 Sat, Aug 25   KCR  L   9-10(12)  60-67  4th 13.5 gb
126 Fri, Aug 24   KCR  W   4-3       60-66  4th 13.5 gb
125 Thu, Aug 23   LAA  L  13-14(10)  59-66  4th 13.5 gb
124 Wed, Aug 22   LAA  L   3-7       59-65  4th 13.0 gb
123 Tue, Aug 21   LAA  L   3-5       59-64  4th 13.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:11-19
Athletics, 73-57, 73-57 2nd, 4 GB, 1 up in WC

SP: Brandon McCarthy (28, RHP, 7-5, 3.12)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (7-5) 101.0 102 39 35 23 69 9 3.12
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 4-2 43.0 40 17 16 7 29 4 3.35 55
2012-08-25 @TBR W 7.0 4 2 2 2 7 1 107 66
2012-08-20 MIN L 3.1 10 6 6 1 2 0 86 17
2012-08-15 @KCR L 6.2 7 3 2 0 4 0 94 54
2012-08-10 @CHW ND 6.0 6 3 3 1 4 3 85 51
2012-06-19 LAD W 7.0 2 0 0 1 5 0 81 77
2012-06-07 TEX W 7.0 3 1 1 0 5 0 88 72
2012-06-02 @KCR W 6.0 8 2 2 2 2 0 71 48
Last 5 v.BOS 2-2 24.2 22 15 15 14 14 1 5.47 46
2012-05-02 @BOS W 6.2 5 1 1 3 4 0 113 61
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:   39-27   Road:   34-30   ExtrInn: 9-3 
 vsRHP:  51-33   vsLHP:  22-24   1-Run:  20-15
 vsEast: 22-15   vsCntrl:22-16   vsWest: 19-18 IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
130 Thu, Aug 30  @CLE  W  12-7       73-57  2nd  4.0 gb
129 Wed, Aug 29  @CLE  W   8-4       72-57  2nd  4.5 gb
128 Tue, Aug 28  @CLE  W   7-0       71-57  2nd  5.5 gb
127 Mon, Aug 27  @CLE  W   3-0       70-57  2nd  5.5 gb
126 Sat, Aug 25  @TBR  W   4-2       69-57  2nd  6.0 gb
125 Fri, Aug 24  @TBR  W   5-4       68-57  2nd  6.0 gb
124 Thu, Aug 23  @TBR  L   0-5       67-57  2nd  6.0 gb
123 Wed, Aug 22   MIN  W   5-1       67-56  2nd  5.0 gb
122 Tue, Aug 21   MIN  W   4-1       66-56  2nd  5.0 gb
121 Mon, Aug 20   MIN  L   2-7       65-56  2nd  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jul 04, 2012 OAK  3  BOS  2        W:Grant Balfour (2-2), L: Aaron Cook (2-2), S: Ryan Cook (8)
Tue, Jul 03, 2012 OAK  3  BOS  2        W:Jerry Blevins (2-0), L: Alfredo Aceves (0-6), S: none
Mon, Jul 02, 2012 OAK  6  BOS  1        W:Jarrod Parker (5-3), L: Daisuke Matsuzaka (0-3), S: none
Wed, May 02, 2012 OAK  4 @BOS  2        W:Brandon McCarthy (2-3), L: Daniel Bard (2-3), S: Brian Fuentes (1)
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)
Season Series: 2012 - OAK over 5-1; 2011 - BOS won 6-2; 2010 - OAK won 5-4; All-Time - BOS leads 1056-866

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  5.15

SFG  4.31

HOU  3.65

 RA/G

WSN  3.57

DET  4.31

COL  5.53

 BA

M. Cabrera  .346

N. Swisher  .274

C. Pena  .188

 OBP

P. Fielder  .410

B. Phillips  .335

J. Smoak  .258

 SLG

R. Braun  .610

N. Walker  .435

J. Carroll  .290

 OPS

R. Braun  .999

C. Davis  .770

J. Smoak  .574

 ERA

F. Hernandez  2.43

W. Rodriguez  3.86

R. Wolf  5.69

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.34

G. Floyd  7.42

H. Alvarez  3.41

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

RedSox Batters (4.90 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.72 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.McCarthy
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 54.Blackley*
G/S/vB		 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 53.Miller
G/S/vB		 40.Neshek
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Aviles G/S/vP 8/.000 3/.666 ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 485/341 .259/.288/.404/.693 .762/.664 .690 81/.779 12/5 13/13
77.Ciriaco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 157/107 .336/.348/.461/.809 .889/.772 .662 79/.859 10/0 2/3
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 5/1.100 7/.786 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 228/143 .268/.311/.376/.687 .643/.715 .584 110/.700 11/1 2/0
50.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 57/38 .327/.386/.462/.848 .721/.909 .692 26/1.007 0/0 1/4
58.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/5 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 9/.000 0/0 0/0
55.Kalish* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 90/77 .202/.244/.238/.483 .641/.456 .455 20/.472 3/2 0/3
60.Lavarnway G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 66/41 .186/.258/.237/.495 .285/.631 .456 57/.498 0/0 0/1
22.Loney* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 377/294 .262/.309/.356/.665 .575/.690 .679 63/.760 0/3 5/6
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 9/.555 8/.708 ··· 7/1.881 2/.500 1/.000 3/2.500 2/.000 1/no AB 511/351 .282/.339/.440/.779 .845/.749 .782 112/.985 12/5 12/5
26.Podsednik* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 137/112 .355/.374/.419/.793 .958/.757 .681 67/.693 7/2 1/0
7.Ross G/S/vP 3/.000 5/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 406/286 .277/.341/.514/.854 1.114/.748 .681 99/.854 1/1 19/1
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 371/325 .229/.286/.465/.750 .610/.771 .754 72/.585 0/1 22/6
IP 101.0 60.1 95.0 54.0 56.1 30.2 35.2 8.1 21.1 TOTAL .270/.325/.435/.760 .791/.747 .703 .765 75/22 146/76
ERA-K/9 3.12/6.1 2.54/7.9 3.79/6.0 2.67/8.0 2.40/9.9 3.23/13.2 2.02/8.1 1.08/11.9 2.95/8.0 3.46/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lavarnway (9-1-0)
 Saltalamacchia (66-16-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 426/.262 235/.159 384/.236 219/.212 225/.169 128/.250 151/.209 33/.138 89/.238 .243  Ross
 Podsednik
 Ciriaco
 Ellsbury
 Kalish
21/7/69/7
18/17/4/1
0/1/2/0
0/51/0/0
0/20/6/0
OPS .698 .511 .662 .657 .554 .621 .651 .518 .662 .677
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 227/.763 125/.495 115/.547 107/.576 110/.585 52/.853 74/.447 7/1.262 42/.907 .710
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 199/.624 110/.529 269/.712 112/.736 115/.526 76/.459 77/.853 26/.323 47/.452 .649
Home 205/.610 121/.411 177/.600 115/.810 107/.586 65/.529 67/.614 17/.118 44/.676
Last 28d days 101/.818 33/.352 78/.793 38/.816 40/.668 31/.534 9/.347 29/.596 32/.713
HR/SB/CS 9/13/3 4/2/2 7/2/4 6/4/3 4/4/2 0/4/0 4/6/0 1/1/0 2/1/0 113/80/41
Usage ·····X·· ···X·oX· ·X······ XoX····o ·X·o··X· ·X···oo· X······· ·oo····X X·o·····
Athletics Batters (4.15 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Cook
G/S/vB		 91.Aceves
G/S/vB		 40.Bailey
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 37.Melancon
G/S/vB		 30.Miller*
G/S/vB		 44.Padilla
G/S/vB		 63.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
22.Carter G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 186/109 .274/.376/.573/.950 .936/.956 .809 94/.851 0/0 12/5
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 399/273 .299/.358/.503/.861 .823/.879 .958 94/.733 12/3 16/2
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 7/1.143 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 3/.666 16/1.000 ··· 409/278 .258/.318/.410/.728 .611/.784 .791 101/.864 29/4 9/3
20.Donaldson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 167/116 .228/.263/.373/.637 .663/.625 .643 67/1.018 3/1 4/8
5.Drew* G/S/vP 41/.969 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 9/.708 ··· 194/146 .198/.299/.305/.604 .580/.612 .536 90/.707 1/1 2/4
31.Gomes G/S/vP 14/1.714 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 267/113 .248/.360/.478/.837 .907/.741 .723 42/.763 3/1 15/1
14.Kottaras* G/S/vP 9/.597 1/3.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 150/124 .198/.376/.345/.721 .518/.755 .811 27/.593 0/0 4/2
37.Moss* G/S/vP 4/3.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 194/155 .239/.309/.517/.826 .582/.890 .715 51/.782 0/1 14/5
36.Norris G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 162/101 .197/.272/.347/.619 .606/.626 .571 72/.682 5/1 5/3
2.Pennington# G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 6/1.867 ··· 369/272 .198/.261/.291/.552 .390/.613 .509 55/.620 13/5 4/10
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 3/1.167 2/.000 ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 537/353 .260/.326/.498/.824 .829/.822 .823 94/.688 10/1 27/5
17.Rosales G/S/vP 4/.833 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 77/35 .231/.338/.354/.692 .583/.829 .557 37/.867 0/0 2/0
15.Smith* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 2/.000 ··· 6/.667 1/no AB 359/293 .244/.343/.432/.774 .551/.826 .732 34/.853 2/2 12/0
IP 68.0 66.1 5.1 54.0 34.1 34.1 43.1 30.0 TOTAL .234/.307/.393/.700 .692/.704 .682 .754 102/29 146/85
ERA-K/9 4.76/1.5 4.61/8.1 1.69/6.8 2.50/8.7 6.82/7.1 3.67/10.5 4.15/10.0 1.80/8.1 4.44/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Donaldson (4-2-0)
 Kottaras (32-5-2)
 Norris (21-11-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 286/.285 281/.237 22/.200 222/.227 151/.279 140/.205 187/.278 126/.286 .259  Reddick
 Cespedes
 Smith
 Crisp
 Moss
 Gomes
0/11/107/13
38/40/0/5
47/0/12/3
16/75/0/3
4/0/9/2
33/0/3/0
OPS .775 .685 .473 .666 .819 .605 .794 .698 .743
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 153/.827 151/.688 9/.819 96/.627 63/.891 86/.408 88/.772 48/.681 .727
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 133/.716 130/.679 13/.237 126/.695 88/.766 54/.921 99/.814 78/.709 .756
Road 99/.650 127/.537 6/.533 94/.553 56/.751 70/.621 92/.770 41/.836
Last 28d days 99/.749 56/.857 22/.473 32/.683 44/.669 32/.667 19/.968 59/.820
HR/SB/CS 9/0/1 8/4/1 0/0/0 5/2/2 7/0/1 3/0/0 5/3/1 1/3/1 146/94/27
Usage ·····X·· ·XX····X ···o·ooX ····XX·X ····Xo·X ·X···Xo· ···o·XoX ·X···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.