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Game Preview: OAK @ CHC, 3:05pm, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 @Wrigley Field

Athletics, 96-66, 96-66

SP: Tommy Milone (26, LHP, 12-9, 4.14)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (12-9) 156.1 160 83 72 39 126 25 4.14
2012 (13-10) 190.0 207 90 79 36 137 24 3.74
2011 (1-0) 26.0 28 11 11 4 15 2 3.81
Last 7 GS 4-1 36.2 39 22 16 11 34 5 3.93 49
2013-09-23 @LAA W 5.1 5 5 2 1 8 1 88 51
2013-09-15 @TEX W 5.0 6 1 1 1 5 0 86 55
2013-08-27 @DET W 5.0 3 3 2 3 3 0 84 51
2013-08-18 CLE ND 4.2 6 3 1 1 5 1 97 48
2013-08-02 TEX L 3.2 9 6 6 0 2 2 76 21
2013-07-27 LAA W 7.0 4 1 1 4 6 1 114 67
2013-07-22 @HOU ND 6.0 6 3 3 1 5 0 93 52
Has never faced CHC as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   52-29   Road:   44-37   ExtrInn: 7-6 
 vsRHP:  64-44   vsLHP:  32-22   1-Run:  30-20
 vsEast: 17-15   vsCntrl:22-12   vsWest: 44-32 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29  @SEA  W   9-0       96-66  1st  5.0 up
161 Sat, Sep 28  @SEA  L   5-7       95-66  1st  5.0 up
160 Fri, Sep 27  @SEA  W   8-2       95-65  1st  6.0 up
159 Wed, Sep 25  @LAA  L   1-3       94-65  1st  6.5 up
158 Tue, Sep 24  @LAA  L   0-3       94-64  1st  7.5 up
157 Mon, Sep 23  @LAA  W  10-5       94-63  1st  8.5 up
156 Sun, Sep 22   MIN  W  11-7       93-63  1st  8.5 up
155 Sat, Sep 21   MIN  W   9-1       92-63  1st  7.5 up
154 Fri, Sep 20   MIN  W  11-0       91-63  1st  7.5 up
153 Thu, Sep 19   MIN  W   8-6       90-63  1st  6.5 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:21-9
Cubs, 66-96, 66-96

SP: (2013, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
Last 7 GS
Has never faced OAK as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   31-50   Road:   35-46   ExtrInn: 7-6 
 vsRHP:  44-74   vsLHP:  22-22   1-Run:  20-33
 vsEast: 14-18   vsCntrl:25-51   vsWest: 14-20 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29  @STL  L   0-4       66-96  5th 31.0 gb
161 Sat, Sep 28  @STL  L   2-6       66-95  5th 30.0 gb
160 Fri, Sep 27  @STL  L   0-7       66-94  5th 29.0 gb
159 Wed, Sep 25   PIT  W   4-2       66-93  5th 28.0 gb
158 Tue, Sep 24   PIT  L   2-8       65-93  5th 28.0 gb
157 Mon, Sep 23   PIT  L   1-2       65-92  5th 27.0 gb
156 Sun, Sep 22   ATL  L   2-5       65-91  5th 26.0 gb
155 Sat, Sep 21   ATL  W   3-1       65-90  5th 26.0 gb
154 Fri, Sep 20   ATL  L   5-9       64-90  5th 26.0 gb
153 Thu, Sep 19  @MIL  W   5-1       64-89  5th 25.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:10-20

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jul 04, 2013 OAK  1  CHC  0        W:Dan Straily (5-2), L: Matt Guerrier (2-4), S: Grant Balfour (21)
Wed, Jul 03, 2013 CHC  3 @OAK  1        W:Matt Garza (4-1), L: Bartolo Colon (11-3), S: Kevin Gregg (14)
Tue, Jul 02, 2013 OAK  8  CHC  7        W:Dan Otero (1-0), L: James Russell (1-2), S: Grant Balfour (20)

Thu, Jun 17, 2010 CHC  3  OAK  2        W:Carlos Marmol (2-1), L: Jerry Blevins (2-1), S: none
Wed, Jun 16, 2010 CHC  6  OAK  2        W:Ryan Dempster (5-5), L: Gio Gonzalez (6-5), S: none
Tue, Jun 15, 2010 OAK  9 @CHC  5        W:Trevor Cahill (6-2), L: Carlos Zambrano (2-5), S: none
Sun, Jun 20, 2004 CHC  5  OAK  3        W:Carlos Zambrano (8-2), L: Barry Zito (4-4), S: none
Sat, Jun 19, 2004 CHC  4  OAK  3        W:Kyle Farnsworth (2-3), L: Chad Bradford (3-4), S: none
Fri, Jun 18, 2004 OAK  2 @CHC  1        W:Mark Redman (5-3), L: Matt Clement (7-5), S: Chad Bradford (1)
Season Series: 2013 - OAK over 2-1; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - CHC leads 5-4

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 2013 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 2012 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  4.99

MIN  4.33

HOU  3.60

 RA/G

TBR  3.56

LAA  4.31

COL  5.49

 BA

B. Posey  .336

A. Rodriguez  .272

C. Pena  .197

 OBP

J. Mauer  .416

A. Jones  .334

D. Stubbs  .277

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .606

H. Ramirez  .437

J. Weeks  .304

 OPS

M. Cabrera  .999

A. Pagan  .778

J. Weeks  .609

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.53

T. Cahill  3.78

R. Romero  5.77

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.08

U. Jimenez  7.28

H. Alvarez  3.80

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Athletics Batters (4.73 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (4.25 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 62.Cabrera
G/S/vB		 11.Fujikawa
G/S/vB		 50.Parker
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 59.Rosscup*
G/S/vB		 40.Russell*
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 41.Veras
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 47.Vizcaino
G/S/vB		 53.Wright*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 136/99 .204/.338/.292/.630 .547/.662 .750 72/.845 1/0 1/0
18.Callaspo# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 5/.400 5/1.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 520/372 .252/.331/.361/.692 .833/.634 .670 81/.732 4/3 10/12
52.Cespedes G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 540/377 .292/.356/.505/.861 .853/.864 .791 77/.852 16/4 23/3
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.500 7/.453 4/.500 ··· 5/.650 508/336 .259/.325/.418/.742 .682/.774 .667 97/.879 39/4 11/3
20.Donaldson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 3/1.000 294/205 .241/.289/.398/.687 .703/.680 .715 96/1.089 4/1 9/13
15.Elmore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 73/52 .191/.247/.250/.497 .449/.515 .601 6/.533 0/0 0/2
7.Freiman G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 / /// / 21/.536 / /
3.Gentry G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 269/154 .304/.367/.392/.759 .859/.686 .781 65/.830 13/7 1/0
35.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 109/47 .260/.315/.330/.645 .838/.396 .754 3/1.667 0/0 1/3
5.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 3/2.000 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 361/308 .276/.394/.456/.850 .393/.927 .824 / 5/0 10/0
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 6/.367 2/.500 4/1.417 2/.000 ··· 3/1.667 387/287 .244/.331/.438/.769 .623/.819 .687 94/.841 2/0 16/8
37.Moss* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/2.500 3/.000 ··· 7/.572 296/234 .291/.358/.596/.954 .770/1.006 1.050 70/1.086 1/1 21/9
36.Norris G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 3/1.667 232/139 .201/.276/.349/.625 .618/.630 .645 44/.886 5/1 7/5
32.Peterson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 / /// / / / /
1.Punto# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 5/.250 10/.967 ··· 1/3.000 191/161 .219/.321/.281/.602 .720/.580 .721 39/.556 6/0 1/2
16.Reddick* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 3/4.000 673/434 .242/.305/.463/.768 .751/.778 .742 66/.846 11/1 32/6
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 2/1.500 ··· 5/.400 108/88 .167/.206/.275/.480 .450/.487 .707 50/.680 2/0 2/2
23.Taylor G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/9 .143/.143/.190/.333 .167/.556 .500 / 0/0 0/0
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/25 .000/.074/.000/.074 .000/.080 .083 48/.714 0/0 0/0
IP 21.2 6.0 69.1 66.1 67.0 125.1 52.1 TOTAL .254/.327/.419/.745 .760/.738 .760 .845 74/28 186/97
ERA-K/9 5.40/11.2 /0.0 6.00/9.0 /0.0 /0.0 3.25/7.1 2.44/7.9 3.63/10.6 4.16/8.8 /0.0 3.27/9.3 4.00/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Donaldson (4-2-0)
 Gimenez (20-5-0)
 Jaso (27-7-5)
 Norris (34-12-4)
 Vogt (0-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 99/.205 / 32/.370 / / 292/.255 283/.217 300/.239 521/.242 / 223/.226 .244  Reddick
 Cespedes
 Gentry
 Crisp
 Moss
 Vogt
 Gimenez
 Taylor
0/14/136/15
56/48/0/9
0/114/3/7
16/97/0/4
11/0/13/2
2/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
2/0/4/0
OPS .678 1.172 .732 .613 .694 .758 .638 .718
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 35/.524 / 12/1.071 / / 111/.727 139/.674 146/.724 262/.816 / 133/.538 .679
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 64/.767 / 20/1.200 / / 181/.735 144/.556 154/.665 259/.703 / 90/.790 .746
Home 54/.753 / 12/1.017 / / 163/.667 147/.635 152/.666 275/.667 / 123/.726
Last 28d days 28/.929 / 29/.792 26/.117 27/.667 11/1.121 42/.645 23/.698 35/.442 / 24/.469
HR/SB/CS 1/4/1 // 3/1/0 // // 5/7/2 2/1/1 5/10/2 23/6/5 // 4/3/1 160/107/42
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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Cubs Batters (3.72 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.86 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 57.Milone*
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 60.Chavez
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 54.Gray
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 45.Johnson
G/S/vB		 26.Kazmir*
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 13.Pomeranz*
G/S/vB		 33.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 50.Savery*
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Barney G/S/vP ··· 6/.334 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· 1/2.000 5/.000 4/.250 ··· ··· 588/436 .254/.299/.354/.653 .636/.659 .799 77/.444 6/1 7/3
5.Castillo G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.750 2/.000 ··· ··· 190/143 .265/.337/.418/.754 1.199/.609 .791 41/1.008 0/0 5/7
13.Castro G/S/vP ··· 6/.750 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 6/.834 ··· 3/1.667 ··· 4/.500 7/.286 ··· ··· 691/525 .283/.323/.430/.753 .775/.746 .764 103/.659 25/13 14/27
7.Jackson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 142/123 .175/.303/.342/.644 .488/.670 .713 / 0/3 4/2
9.Kottaras* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.667 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 209/173 .211/.351/.415/.766 .736/.770 .795 12/.432 0/0 9/4
21.Lake G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 65/.741 / /
8.Murphy G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 129/78 .216/.281/.379/.661 .430/.816 .780 58/.652 1/1 3/1
30.Olt G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 40/21 .152/.250/.182/.432 .387/.473 .481 / 1/1 0/3
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· 368/261 .285/.342/.463/.805 .599/.892 .789 100/.698 3/2 15/4
20.Ruggiano G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.167 ··· ··· ··· 320/213 .313/.374/.535/.909 1.129/.806 .867 89/.686 14/8 13/3
19.Schierholtz* G/S/vP ··· 1/5.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 6/.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 269/201 .257/.321/.407/.728 .444/.826 .630 73/.585 3/2 6/1
6.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/.572 15/.733 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 219/196 .260/.303/.373/.675 .332/.713 .660 79/.611 0/0 0/2
24.Valbuena* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.500 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 303/237 .219/.310/.340/.650 .624/.657 .666 50/.729 0/2 4/7
27.Vitters G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 109/61 .121/.193/.202/.395 .346/.433 .274 / 2/0 2/4
22.Watkins* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 17/.728 / /
IP 190.0 46.0 24.2 73.1 47.1 71.2 68.2 12.1 96.2 70.1 25.0 35.1 TOTAL .238/.300/.392/.693 .693/.693 .739 .671 63/32 172/100
ERA-K/9 3.74/6.5 5.09/7.4 9.85/10.9 2.09/9.8 3.04/11.4 /0.0 2.39/9.0 2.49/5.4 /0.0 5.84/5.9 4.93/7.7 5.37/10.0 5.40/5.8 2.55/7.6 3.56/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castillo (33-11-4)
 Kottaras (38-8-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 791/.278 208/.311 123/.315 288/.166 191/.227 / 294/.215 269/.220 / 57/.358 434/.261 309/.252 108/.274 148/.221 .242  Sweeney
 Ruggiano
 Jackson
 Wright
 Schierholtz
 Olt
0/19/49/3
31/52/15/3
0/39/0/0
0/0/1/0
0/7/80/0
0/0/2/0
OPS .738 .892 .983 .517 .611 .612 .556 .894 .775 .761 .804 .637 .678
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 214/.749 72/.779 45/1.144 136/.568 67/.794 / 117/.663 148/.581 / 20/.950 98/.464 107/.703 42/.628 62/.834 .695
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 577/.734 136/.953 78/.888 152/.473 124/.509 / 177/.578 121/.526 / 37/.864 336/.864 202/.792 66/.913 86/.501 .662
Road 400/.854 119/.913 106/.869 151/.469 97/.693 / 131/.768 148/.487 / 35/1.051 198/.773 139/.807 55/.904 78/.648
Last 28d days 55/.651 25/.653 26/.417 43/.959 36/.361 121/.604 39/.343 49/.526 117/.656 34/.657 17/.180 / 27/.576 19/.737
HR/SB/CS 24/8/10 6/0/3 7/0/0 4/4/2 3/5/1 // 7/5/1 3/3/2 // 0/1/1 14/10/2 10/20/1 4/0/3 2/2/0 163/87/27
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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.