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Game Preview: BOS @ OAK, 9:05pm, Saturday, September 1, 2012 @The Coliseum

RedSox, 62-71, 62-71 4th, 14 GB, 13 GB in WC

SP: Felix Doubront (24, LHP, 10-6, 4.79)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2012 (10-6)			127.2	134	75	68	54	126	19	4.79
2011 (0-0)			10.1	12	7	7	8	6	1	6.10
2010 (2-2)			25.0	27	16	12	10	23	3	4.32

Last 7 GS		2-2	38.0	41	25	24	20	35	6	5.68	45
2012-08-26	KCR	ND	5.0	6	4	4	2	7	1	98	44
2012-08-09	@CLE	L	4.1	7	4	4	2	4	1	94	35
2012-08-03	MIN	ND	5.0	8	5	5	4	2	0	97	29
2012-07-29	@NYY	ND	6.1	4	1	1	5	8	1	109	64
2012-07-23	@TEX	L	5.0	8	6	6	3	6	1	111	30
2012-07-18	CHW	W	6.0	4	1	1	3	2	0	96	59
2012-07-07	NYY	W	6.1	4	4	3	1	6	2	101	56

Last 5 v.OAK		0-1	4.0	6	5	5	2	8	0	11.25	36
2012-05-01	OAK	L	4.0	6	5	5	2	8	0	94	36

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   32-38   Road:   30-33   ExtrInn: 2-8 
 vsRHP:  37-54   vsLHP:  25-17   1-Run:  13-17
 vsEast: 20-28   vsCntrl:24-16   vsWest:  7-20 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
133 Fri, Aug 31  @OAK  L   2-20      62-71  4th 14.0 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
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:10-20

Athletics, 74-57, 74-57 2nd, 4 GB, 1 up in WC

SP: A.J. Griffin (24, RHP, 3-0, 2.42)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2012 (3-0)			44.2	33	12	12	10	35	5	2.42

Last 7 GS		3-0	38.2	30	10	10	9	31	4	2.33	59
2012-08-04	TOR	ND	1.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	30	53
2012-07-30	TBR	ND	7.0	5	3	3	2	6	1	104	59
2012-07-25	@TOR	W	6.0	3	0	0	2	9	0	104	73
2012-07-19	NYY	W	6.0	7	2	2	0	4	0	90	54
2012-07-13	@MIN	W	6.0	8	3	3	1	5	2	95	48
2012-07-04	BOS	ND	6.0	4	2	2	2	3	1	108	57
2012-06-29	@TEX	ND	6.0	2	0	0	2	4	0	109	70

Last 5 v.BOS		0-0	6.0	4	2	2	2	3	1	3.00	57
2012-07-04	BOS	ND	6.0	4	2	2	2	3	1	108	57

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   40-27   Road:   34-30   ExtrInn: 9-3 
 vsRHP:  52-33   vsLHP:  22-24   1-Run:  20-15
 vsEast: 23-15   vsCntrl:22-16   vsWest: 19-18 IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
131 Fri, Aug 31   BOS  W  20-2       74-57  2nd  4.0 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
 Last 10: 9-1    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 31, 2012 OAK 20  BOS  2        W:Brandon McCarthy (8-5), L: Aaron Cook (3-8), S: none
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
Season Series: 2012 - OAK over 6-1; 2011 - BOS won 6-2; 2010 - OAK won 5-4; All-Time - BOS leads 1056-867

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 3.64	RA/G WSN 3.54 DET 4.31 COL 5.52	BA M. Cabrera .346 J. Morneau .274 C. Pena .190	OBP P. Fielder .410 M. Teixeira .335 J. Smoak .258	SLG R. Braun .606 J. Reyes .435 J. Carroll .290	OPS R. Braun .993 K. Morales .777 J. Smoak .575	ERA F. Hernandez 2.43 C. Wilson 3.86 R. Wolf 5.69	K/9IP M. Scherzer 11.34 G. Floyd 7.42 H. Alvarez 3.41

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

TEX 5.15

SFG 4.31

HOU 3.64

RA/G

WSN 3.54

DET 4.31

COL 5.52

M. Cabrera .346

J. Morneau .274

C. Pena .190

OBP

P. Fielder .410

M. Teixeira .335

J. Smoak .258

SLG

R. Braun .606

J. Reyes .435

J. Carroll .290

OPS

R. Braun .993

K. Morales .777

J. Smoak .575

ERA

F. Hernandez 2.43

C. Wilson 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 (4.88 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 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 65.Figueroa*
G/S/vB 40.Neshek
G/S/vB 58.Scribner
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

3.Aviles G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 489/345 .259/.288/.403/.691 .762/.662 .687 81/.739 12/5 13/13

77.Ciriaco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 161/111 .333/.346/.455/.801 .889/.762 .653 82/.789 10/0 2/3

2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP ··· 7/.786 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 232/146 .267/.310/.373/.684 .659/.699 .581 114/.693 11/1 2/0

50.Gomez G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 58/38 .321/.379/.453/.832 .683/.909 .643 27/.966 0/0 1/5

58.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 13/9 .000/.077/.000/.077 .000/.111 .083 13/.077 0/0 0/0

55.Kalish* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 90/77 .202/.244/.238/.483 .641/.456 .455 17/.485 3/2 0/3

60.Lavarnway G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 66/41 .186/.258/.237/.495 .285/.631 .456 56/.508 0/0 0/1

22.Loney* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 381/297 .262/.308/.355/.663 .568/.690 .675 63/.760 0/3 5/6

15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· 8/.708 ··· 7/1.881 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/no AB 515/354 .284/.340/.440/.781 .840/.754 .785 112/1.008 12/5 12/5

26.Podsednik* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 140/115 .354/.373/.417/.790 .958/.755 .681 70/.692 7/2 1/0

7.Ross G/S/vP 2/.000 5/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 410/289 .278/.342/.512/.855 1.119/.747 .684 99/.869 1/1 19/1

39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 375/328 .230/.285/.471/.756 .596/.780 .767 72/.612 0/1 23/6

IP 44.2 60.1 95.0 54.0 56.1 30.2 16.2 8.1 22.1 TOTAL .270/.325/.434/.759 .790/.746 .702 .766 75/22 147/77

ERA-K/9

2.42/7.0

2.54/7.9

3.79/6.0

2.67/8.0

2.40/9.9

3.23/13.2

1.08/4.3

1.08/11.9

2.82/7.7

3.44/6.9

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 174/.202 235/.159 384/.236 219/.212 225/.169 128/.250 64/.173 33/.138 92/.230 .243 Ross
Podsednik
Ciriaco
Ellsbury
Kalish 21/7/70/7
19/17/4/1
1/1/2/0
0/52/0/0
0/20/6/0

OPS .560 .511 .662 .657 .554 .621 .578 .518 .640 .677

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 94/.515 125/.495 115/.547 107/.576 110/.585 52/.853 21/.296 7/1.262 42/.907 .711

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 80/.614 110/.529 269/.712 112/.736 115/.526 76/.459 43/.729 26/.323 50/.425 .649

Home 104/.557 121/.411 177/.600 115/.810 107/.586 65/.529 46/.586 17/.118 47/.632

Last 28d days / 30/.389 78/.793 27/.671 36/.600 31/.534 18/.411 23/.704 35/.649

HR/SB/CS 5/0/3 4/2/2 7/2/4 6/4/3 4/4/2 0/4/0 1/2/0 1/1/0 2/1/0 114/80/41

Usage ····X·oX ··X····· ·XoX···· ··X·o··X ··X···oo X······· ··oo···· oX·o····

Athletics Batters (4.27 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.85 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 61.Doubront*
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/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

22.Carter G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 186/109 .274/.376/.573/.950 .936/.956 .809 90/.857 0/0 12/5

52.Cespedes G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/.500 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 404/277 .302/.361/.503/.864 .833/.879 .962 99/.751 12/3 16/2

4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 2/.500 3/.666 17/.938 1/.000 415/284 .255/.315/.405/.720 .611/.772 .774 106/.822 29/4 9/3

20.Donaldson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 171/119 .228/.263/.389/.652 .650/.653 .677 71/1.033 3/1 5/8

5.Drew* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 10/.633 ··· 200/152 .197/.295/.301/.596 .580/.600 .517 92/.653 1/1 2/4

31.Gomes G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 272/117 .252/.364/.478/.842 .911/.750 .736 42/.899 3/1 15/1

14.Kottaras* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 155/128 .215/.383/.405/.788 .590/.822 .929 28/.901 0/0 6/2

37.Moss* G/S/vP ··· 2/3.500 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 199/159 .254/.322/.552/.874 .618/.941 .798 55/.971 0/1 15/5

36.Norris G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 162/101 .197/.272/.347/.619 .606/.626 .571 68/.656 5/1 5/3

2.Pennington# G/S/vP 2/1.500 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 7/1.881 1/.000 374/277 .204/.266/.299/.564 .390/.629 .536 60/.689 13/5 4/10

16.Reddick* G/S/vP 2/.500 3/.000 ··· 3/1.000 3/1.666 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 542/357 .262/.327/.505/.832 .824/.836 .838 94/.776 10/1 28/5

17.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 78/36 .242/.346/.379/.725 .583/.899 .633 35/.903 0/0 2/0

15.Smith* G/S/vP ··· 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 127.2 67.1 5.1 54.1 35.0 34.1 44.1 31.1 TOTAL .236/.308/.398/.706 .694/.712 .695 .801 102/29 151/85

ERA-K/9

4.79/8.9

4.81/8.2

1.69/6.8

3.15/8.6

7.71/7.2

3.67/10.5

4.47/9.8

1.72/8.3

4.55/7.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Donaldson (4-2-0)
Kottaras (32-5-1)
Norris (21-11-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 564/.267 286/.237 22/.200 228/.236 157/.291 140/.205 193/.286 130/.276 .261 Reddick
Cespedes
Smith
Crisp
Moss
Gomes 0/11/108/13
39/40/0/5
47/0/12/3
16/76/0/3
4/0/9/2
33/0/3/0

OPS .785 .696 .473 .682 .864 .605 .824 .676 .749

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 169/.738 154/.711 9/.819 99/.649 68/1.004 86/.408 92/.819 51/.640 .737

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 395/.805 132/.679 13/.237 129/.705 89/.757 54/.921 101/.829 79/.700 .759

Road 279/.725 132/.567 6/.533 100/.595 62/.873 70/.621 98/.831 45/.759

Last 28d days 46/.870 52/.799 22/.473 37/.803 50/.827 29/.571 25/1.162 63/.767

HR/SB/CS 19/15/3 9/4/1 0/0/0 5/2/2 8/0/1 3/0/0 6/3/1 1/3/1 151/94/27

Usage ·····X·· X·XX···· ····o·oo X····XX· X····Xo· ··X···Xo X···o·Xo o·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.