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Game Preview: OAK @ PIT, 7:05pm, Monday, July 8, 2013 @PNC Park

Athletics, 52-37, 52-37 1st, ½ up

SP: Bartolo Colon (40, RHP, 11-3, 2.78)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (11-3) 113.1 111 35 35 14 61 9 2.78
2012 (10-9) 152.1 161 62 58 23 91 17 3.43
2011 (8-10) 164.1 172 85 73 40 135 21 4.00
Last 7 GS 6-1 52.0 46 9 9 10 22 2 1.56 63
2013-07-03 CHC L 7.0 9 2 2 1 0 1 106 50
2013-06-28 STL W 8.0 6 1 1 1 5 0 101 70
2013-06-21 @SEA W 8.0 7 3 3 2 4 1 97 58
2013-06-16 SEA W 7.0 8 2 2 0 3 0 97 56
2013-06-11 NYY W 6.0 3 0 0 4 3 0 102 65
2013-06-05 @MIL W 7.0 8 1 1 2 4 0 93 59
2013-05-31 CHW W 9.0 5 0 0 0 3 0 106 80
Last 5 v.PIT 2-1 30.0 22 5 5 10 21 3 1.50 66
2007-06-24 PIT ND 6.0 7 2 2 4 6 0 103 52
2004-06-17 @PIT L 7.0 8 3 3 2 4 3 97 51
1999-07-15 @PIT W 8.0 3 0 0 3 8 0 121 81
1998-06-08 PIT W 9.0 4 0 0 1 3 0 96 81
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-14   Road:   24-23   ExtrInn: 6-3 
 vsRHP:  35-26   vsLHP:  17-11   1-Run:  16-11
 vsEast:  7-9    vsCntrl:11-9    vsWest: 23-15 IL:11-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 89 Sun, Jul  7  @KCR  W  10-4       52-37  1st  0.5 up
 88 Sat, Jul  6  @KCR  L   3-4       51-37  1st  0.5 up
 87 Fri, Jul  5  @KCR  W   6-3       51-36  1st  0.5 up
 86 Thu, Jul  4   CHC  W   1-0       50-36  1st  0.5 up
 85 Wed, Jul  3   CHC  L   1-3       49-36  1st  0.5 up
 84 Tue, Jul  2   CHC  W   8-7       49-35  1st  0.5 up
 83 Sun, Jun 30   STL  W   7-5       48-35  2nd  0.5 gb
 82 Sat, Jun 29   STL  L   1-7       47-35  2nd  0.5 gb
 81 Fri, Jun 28   STL  W   6-1       47-34  2nd  0.5 gb
 80 Wed, Jun 26   CIN  W   5-0       46-34  1st    Tied
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13
Pirates, 53-34, 53-34 1st, Tied

SP: Jeff Locke (25, LHP, 8-1, 2.12)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (8-1) 102.0 73 26 24 44 69 6 2.12
2012 (1-3) 34.1 36 21 21 11 34 6 5.50
2011 (0-3) 16.2 21 12 12 10 5 3 6.48
Last 7 GS 3-0 43.1 31 9 8 19 30 1 1.66 60
2013-07-03 PHI W 5.2 7 3 2 3 2 0 99 44
2013-06-25 @SEA W 7.0 4 2 2 2 4 1 104 63
2013-06-19 @CIN ND 7.0 4 0 0 3 3 0 95 69
2013-06-14 LAD W 7.0 2 0 0 1 5 0 75 77
2013-06-09 @CHC ND 5.2 1 1 1 7 6 0 100 62
2013-06-04 @ATL ND 5.2 6 3 3 2 7 0 103 50
2013-05-30 DET ND 5.1 7 0 0 1 3 0 96 56
Has never faced OAK as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   29-15   Road:   24-19   ExtrInn: 6-5 
 vsRHP:  44-25   vsLHP:   9-9    1-Run:  16-11
 vsEast: 11-10   vsCntrl:25-15   vsWest:  6-6  IL:11-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 87 Sun, Jul  7  @CHC  L   3-4 (11)  53-34  1st    Tied
 86 Sat, Jul  6  @CHC  L   1-4       53-33  1st  1.0 up
 85 Fri, Jul  5  @CHC  W   6-2       53-32  1st  2.0 up
 84 Thu, Jul  4   PHI  L   4-6       52-32  1st  2.0 up
 83 Wed, Jul  3   PHI  W   6-5       52-31  1st  2.0 up
 82 Tue, Jul  2   PHI  L   1-3       51-31  1st  2.0 up
 81 Sun, Jun 30   MIL  W   2-1 (14)  51-30  1st  2.0 up
 80 Sat, Jun 29   MIL  W   2-1       50-30  1st  1.0 up
 79 Fri, Jun 28   MIL  W  10-3       49-30  1st  1.0 up
 78 Wed, Jun 26  @SEA  W   4-2       48-30  1st    Tied
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 27, 2010 OAK  3  PIT  2        W:Craig Breslow (3-1), L: Evan Meek (3-2), S: Andrew Bailey (14)
Sat, Jun 26, 2010 OAK  5  PIT  0        W:Trevor Cahill (7-2), L: Daniel McCutchen (0-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 25, 2010 OAK 14  PIT  4        W:Ben Sheets (3-7), L: Brad Lincoln (0-2), S: none
Sun, Jun 13, 2004 OAK 13  PIT  3        W:Mark Mulder (8-2), L: Kip Wells (3-5), S: none
Sat, Jun 12, 2004 OAK 12  PIT 11        W:Arthur Rhodes (3-3), L: Mark Corey (0-1), S: none
Fri, Jun 11, 2004 OAK  6  PIT  1        W:Tim Hudson (7-2), L: Kris Benson (4-6), S: none
Thu, Jun 20, 2002 OAK  5 @PIT  3        W:Tim Hudson (5-6), L: Kris Benson (0-4), S: Billy Koch (18)
Wed, Jun 19, 2002 OAK  3 @PIT  2 (10)   W:Chad Bradford (3-1), L: Mike Williams (1-2), S: Billy Koch (17)
Tue, Jun 18, 2002 OAK  4 @PIT  2        W:Mark Mulder (7-4), L: Josh Fogg (7-5), S: Billy Koch (16)
Season Series: 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - OAK leads 9-0

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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

DET  5.11

NYM  4.08

MIA  3.25

 RA/G

PIT  3.44

MIA  4.26

HOU  5.28

 BA

M. Cabrera  .368

P. Fielder  .266

B. Upton  .175

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .457

M. Brantley  .330

J. Arencibia  .252

 SLG

C. Davis  .712

G. Jones  .428

E. Andrus  .285

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.137

B. Gardner  .762

A. Hechavarria  .569

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.89

J. Chacin  3.74

S. Diamond  5.52

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.84

J. Hellickson  7.17

S. Diamond  4.30

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

Athletics Batters (4.69 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.44 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Locke*
G/S/vB		 45.Cole
G/S/vB		 39.Grilli
G/S/vB		 32.Mazzaro
G/S/vB		 35.Melancon
G/S/vB		 29.Morris
G/S/vB		 44.Watson*
G/S/vB		 37.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
52.Cespedes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 317/221 .226/.287/.434/.721 .879/.656 .756 90/.527 3/5 15/1
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.417 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 304/194 .264/.350/.429/.779 .693/.827 .898 85/.551 14/4 9/0
20.Donaldson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 366/261 .319/.388/.536/.924 1.121/.846 .908 96/.951 2/2 15/7
7.Freiman G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 118/31 .287/.339/.417/.756 .910/.331 .604 24/.833 0/0 2/1
5.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 220/193 .274/.379/.360/.739 .478/.776 .759 53/.859 2/0 2/2
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 359/233 .301/.372/.426/.798 .744/.826 .829 96/.802 1/0 6/12
37.Moss* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 293/235 .232/.314/.459/.773 .617/.813 .782 89/.834 2/1 15/4
36.Norris G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 208/106 .210/.319/.335/.654 .846/.460 .492 41/.801 3/0 4/1
16.Reddick* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 3/1.666 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 236/164 .222/.302/.357/.660 .652/.662 .698 89/.780 6/0 4/3
17.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 147/65 .200/.273/.331/.603 .752/.408 .570 26/.240 0/0 4/6
15.Smith* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.750 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 292/217 .273/.342/.413/.755 .678/.783 .821 88/.708 0/0 6/0
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 223/183 .261/.336/.352/.688 .643/.698 .664 75/.766 7/4 1/4
25.Young G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 218/132 .190/.271/.374/.645 .557/.696 .633 51/.792 6/2 8/2
IP 102.0 29.2 37.2 40.1 42.1 39.1 44.0 48.0 TOTAL .250/.326/.405/.731 .750/.722 .742 .739 46/18 94/48
ERA-K/9 2.12/6.1 3.94/4.8 2.15/14.3 2.90/5.8 0.85/9.4 2.75/5.7 3.48/7.2 2.06/7.7 3.16/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (24-4-0)
 Norris (24-9-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 410/.206 124/.296 148/.187 164/.267 163/.191 156/.194 175/.199 189/.176 .227  Cespedes
 Reddick
 Smith
 Young
 Moss
 Crisp
 Rosales
46/16/0/5
0/0/59/3
36/0/7/1
8/27/18/1
2/2/11/1
0/56/0/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .606 .693 .505 .675 .463 .638 .618 .528 .651
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 104/.640 64/.784 74/.622 66/.591 74/.368 70/.729 62/.480 56/.574 .660
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 306/.595 60/.599 74/.389 98/.728 89/.544 86/.565 113/.699 133/.508 .645
Home 188/.705 100/.737 79/.406 91/.587 90/.369 88/.501 95/.541 107/.540
Last 28d days 101/.507 124/.693 43/.755 55/.598 39/.282 63/.840 50/.364 47/.621
HR/SB/CS 6/3/4 1/1/3 2/0/0 3/0/1 1/2/0 5/1/2 5/3/1 3/4/3 69/56/26
Usage ····X··· ···X···· ····X··o o··o···X o···o··o Xo···X·o X··o···X ·o··Xo·o
Pirates Batters (3.92 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.98 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Colon
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 60.Chavez
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 47.Neshek
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 309/234 .246/.307/.512/.820 .629/.882 .709 104/1.075 1/0 22/15
12.Barmes G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 182/143 .200/.232/.271/.502 .325/.550 .525 16/.333 0/0 2/8
2.Inge G/S/vP 27/.679 6/.583 1/no AB 5/1.067 ··· ··· 6/.000 ··· 105/69 .190/.214/.250/.464 .457/.466 .296 24/.348 0/0 1/0
46.Jones* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 272/255 .256/.305/.428/.733 .180/.771 .718 75/.685 2/0 8/5
6.Marte G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 373/305 .292/.343/.465/.808 1.036/.756 .797 103/.928 27/9 9/4
55.Martin G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/1.000 3/2.667 4/.500 1/.000 3/2.667 1/.000 ··· 280/222 .249/.354/.415/.769 .802/.760 .693 86/.767 6/2 8/1
22.McCutchen G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 363/297 .303/.375/.471/.845 1.019/.806 .985 109/.958 18/5 9/3
19.McKenry G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 101/75 .191/.248/.330/.577 .392/.643 .506 27/.264 0/0 3/2
10.Mercer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 170/131 .266/.323/.409/.732 1.175/.609 .631 93/.700 3/1 4/7
14.Sanchez G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 204/135 .235/.345/.418/.762 .991/.647 .718 70/.683 1/0 7/1
23.Snider* G/S/vP 8/.661 2/.000 4/.750 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 241/217 .224/.295/.333/.628 .304/.663 .752 59/.535 2/3 3/1
31.Tabata G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 110/74 .296/.367/.459/.826 .600/.940 .750 20/1.206 2/0 2/0
18.Walker# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 293/230 .244/.347/.384/.731 .442/.812 .720 94/.742 1/2 6/6
IP 113.1 34.2 36.1 31.1 37.1 38.0 27.1 8.0 TOTAL .243/.310/.392/.702 .684/.707 .695 .768 63/23 86/64
ERA-K/9 2.78/4.8 1.82/9.1 3.47/7.7 3.16/7.2 2.65/8.4 3.32/8.1 2.30/7.3 3.38/6.8 3.72/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (21-21-4)
 McKenry (35-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 445/.261 141/.198 154/.239 131/.214 154/.216 150/.224 121/.262 34/.353 .244  McCutchen
 Snider
 Marte
 Inge
 Jones
 Martin
 Tabata
0/84/0/7
5/0/68/4
78/8/0/4
0/0/6/1
0/0/20/1
0/0/1/0
8/0/25/0
OPS .648 .591 .698 .578 .553 .605 .734 .735 .686
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 238/.733 68/.571 68/.827 70/.614 69/.701 58/.658 38/.832 17/.706 .717
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 207/.553 73/.610 86/.600 61/.537 85/.438 92/.571 83/.689 17/.765 .661
Road 207/.712 56/.541 84/.655 73/.529 66/.685 62/.674 61/.733 5/1.800
Last 28d days 142/.610 35/.560 47/1.073 72/.564 40/.668 44/.576 24/.726 34/.735
HR/SB/CS 9/1/2 4/0/1 4/0/0 2/0/0 0/9/0 3/3/0 2/2/1 0/0/0 93/50/14
Usage ····X··· ··oX·X·o Xo···X·· X···X··· ·X·o···o ·o··o··o ········ ·····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.