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Game Preview: OAK @ CLE, 7:05pm, Saturday, May 17, 2014 @Progressive Field

Athletics, 26-16, 26-16 1st, 3½ up

SP: Scott Kazmir (30, LHP, 5-1, 2.28)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (5-1) 51.1 41 14 13 9 42 2 2.28
2013 (10-9) 158.0 162 76 71 47 162 19 4.04
2011 (0-0) 1.2 5 5 5 2 0 1 27.00
Last 7 GS 4-1 44.0 38 14 13 9 37 2 2.66 59
2014-05-11 WSN W 7.0 4 0 0 0 4 0 88 73
2014-05-05 SEA L 6.0 8 4 4 2 3 1 99 41
2014-04-29 @TEX W 5.0 7 3 3 1 4 0 95 44
2014-04-24 @HOU W 6.0 5 1 1 2 7 0 93 63
2014-04-19 HOU ND 8.0 6 3 2 0 5 1 106 65
2014-04-13 @SEA ND 6.0 2 0 0 0 9 0 82 77
2014-04-07 @MIN W 6.0 6 3 3 4 5 0 101 49
Last 5 v.CLE 1-1 26.2 31 17 17 13 20 6 5.74 44
2014-04-02 CLE W 7.1 3 0 0 0 5 0 94 77
2010-09-14 @CLE L 5.2 7 4 4 3 3 2 104 39
2010-09-08 CLE ND 6.0 2 1 1 3 6 0 88 67
2009-05-15 CLE ND 3.1 10 7 7 4 2 2 91 10
2008-08-06 CLE ND 4.1 9 5 5 3 4 2 97 26
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-10   Road:   14-6    ExtrInn: 5-2 
 vsRHP:  18-11   vsLHP:   8-5    1-Run:   7-4 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 7-3    vsWest: 15-11 IL: 3-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 42 Fri, May 16  @CLE  W  11-1       26-16  1st  3.5 up
 41 Wed, May 14   CHW  L   2-4       25-16  1st  3.0 up
 40 Tue, May 13   CHW  W  11-0       25-15  1st  4.0 up
 39 Mon, May 12   CHW  W   5-4       24-15  1st  3.5 up
 38 Sun, May 11   WSN  W   9-1       23-15  1st  3.0 up
 37 Sat, May 10   WSN  W   4-3 (10)  22-15  1st  2.5 up
 36 Fri, May  9   WSN  W   8-0       21-15  1st  2.0 up
 35 Wed, May  7   SEA  W   2-0       20-15  1st  2.0 up
 34 Wed, May  7   SEA  L   4-6 (10)  19-15  1st  2.0 up
 33 Tue, May  6   SEA  L   3-8       19-14  1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12
Indians, 19-23, 19-23 5th, 8½ GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Josh Tomlin (29, RHP, 2-0, 2.13)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-0) 12.2 10 3 3 1 6 2 2.13
2013 (0-0) 2.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
2012 (5-8) 103.1 126 74 73 25 56 18 6.36
Last 7 GS 4-3 41.1 44 23 23 5 18 7 5.01 47
2014-05-11 @TBR W 6.0 6 2 2 0 2 1 102 54
2014-05-06 MIN W 6.2 4 1 1 1 4 1 93 65
2012-07-27 @MIN L 4.0 10 8 8 0 2 2 70 12
2012-07-22 BAL L 6.0 8 2 2 0 2 1 90 50
2012-07-17 @TBR L 5.2 7 4 4 1 1 1 89 39
2012-07-05 TBR W 7.0 2 1 1 0 3 0 88 72
2012-06-30 @BAL W 6.0 7 5 5 3 4 1 94 39
Last 5 v.OAK 0-1 7.2 3 3 2 0 5 2 2.35 68
2011-05-04 @OAK L 7.2 3 3 2 0 5 2 99 68
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-9    Road:    7-14   ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  15-13   vsLHP:   4-10   1-Run:   4-6 
 vsEast:  4-5    vsCntrl:11-9    vsWest:  2-5  IL: 2-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 42 Fri, May 16   OAK  L   1-11      19-23  5th  8.5 gb
 41 Thu, May 15  @TOR  L   2-4       19-22  5th  7.5 gb
 40 Wed, May 14  @TOR  W  15-4       19-21  3rd  7.0 gb
 39 Tue, May 13  @TOR  L   4-5       18-21  4th  7.0 gb
 38 Sun, May 11  @TBR  W   6-5       18-20  4th  5.5 gb
 37 Sat, May 10  @TBR  L   1-7       17-20  4th  6.5 gb
 36 Fri, May  9  @TBR  W   6-3       17-19  4th  5.5 gb
 35 Thu, May  8   MIN  W   9-4       16-19  4th  6.5 gb
 34 Wed, May  7   MIN  W   4-3       15-19  5th  7.5 gb
 33 Tue, May  6   MIN  W   4-2       14-19  5th  7.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 16, 2014 OAK 11 @CLE  1        W:Sonny Gray (5-1), L: Zach McAllister (3-4), S: none
Wed, Apr 02, 2014 CLE  6 @OAK  4        W:Cody Allen (2-0), L: Jim Johnson (0-2), S: John Axford (2)
Wed, Apr 02, 2014 OAK  6  CLE  1        W:Scott Kazmir (1-0), L: Corey Kluber (0-1), S: none
Mon, Mar 31, 2014 CLE  2 @OAK  0        W:Cody Allen (1-0), L: Jim Johnson (0-1), S: John Axford (1)

Sun, Aug 18, 2013 OAK  7  CLE  3        W:Dan Otero (2-0), L: Scott Kazmir (7-6), S: none
Sat, Aug 17, 2013 CLE  7 @OAK  1        W:Ubaldo Jimenez (9-7), L: Dan Straily (6-7), S: none
Fri, Aug 16, 2013 OAK  3  CLE  2        W:Sean Doolittle (4-4), L: Justin Masterson (13-9), S: Grant Balfour (31)
Thu, May 09, 2013 CLE  9  OAK  2        W:Scott Kazmir (2-1), L: Bartolo Colon (3-2), S: none
Wed, May 08, 2013 CLE  4  OAK  3        W:Justin Masterson (5-2), L: A.J. Griffin (3-3), S: Chris Perez (5)
Tue, May 07, 2013 CLE  1  OAK  0        W:Zach McAllister (3-3), L: Tommy Milone (3-4), S: Chris Perez (4)
Season Series: 2014 - tied 2-2; 2013 - CLE won 5-2; 2012 - OAK won 8-2; All-Time - CLE leads 1022-897

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 2014 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

COL  5.49

BAL  4.03

SDP  2.91

 RA/G

ATL  3.13

LAA  4.20

ARI  5.30

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .389

J. Abreu  .265

J. Gyorko  .150

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .497

R. Ludwick  .333

J. Gyorko  .205

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .740

M. Ozuna  .415

N. Schierholtz  .256

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.237

A. Jackson  .753

J. Gyorko  .477

 ERA

J. Cueto  1.25

P. Hughes  3.61

K. Correia  6.80

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

A. Burnett  7.40

C. Young  3.62

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

Athletics Batters (5.14 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.52 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.Tomlin
G/S/vB		 37.Allen
G/S/vB		 48.Atchison
G/S/vB		 44.Axford
G/S/vB		 59.Carrasco
G/S/vB		 20.Lee
G/S/vB		 88.Outman*
G/S/vB		 35.Rzepczynski*
G/S/vB		 27.Shaw
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
88.Blanks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 11/11 .273/.273/.273/.545 /.545 2.000 11/.545 0/0 0/0
18.Callaspo# G/S/vP 9/.000 1/no AB 5/.600 ··· 10/.733 ··· 6/.666 5/.800 1/no AB 143/96 .252/.357/.358/.714 .648/.746 .758 86/.577 0/0 3/4
52.Cespedes G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 2/1.000 1/no AB 3/.333 157/112 .264/.338/.507/.845 .894/.825 .830 79/.835 0/1 7/1
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 3/.000 2/3.000 5/.800 1/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB 3/.000 4/2.083 1/.000 118/88 .255/.359/.398/.757 .737/.765 .577 78/.609 7/1 3/2
20.Donaldson G/S/vP ··· 5/.800 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 3/1.334 190/143 .266/.342/.503/.845 .947/.812 1.025 109/.951 1/0 10/7
3.Gentry G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/2.000 ··· 1/.000 88/43 .295/.368/.372/.740 .756/.723 .874 68/.673 6/0 0/0
5.Jaso* G/S/vP 8/.500 1/.000 6/1.667 3/.333 4/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 108/100 .293/.389/.489/.878 .542/.902 .752 67/.971 1/0 4/1
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 2/.000 1/.000 5/.933 6/.833 4/.000 186/138 .266/.368/.411/.779 .788/.774 .884 110/.713 0/0 3/5
37.Moss* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 3/1.666 1/.000 2/2.500 160/132 .279/.363/.514/.877 .873/.878 .764 94/.951 1/0 8/1
36.Norris G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 107/57 .359/.449/.554/1.003 1.031/.977 1.063 69/1.153 1/0 4/1
1.Punto# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 79/33 .211/.291/.254/.545 .472/.649 .480 44/.443 1/0 0/3
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 3/.666 4/.500 2/.500 2/.000 4/3.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 2/.500 138/92 .236/.297/.386/.683 .499/.774 .637 83/.781 1/0 4/2
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 105/90 .172/.250/.215/.465 .205/.510 .394 61/.456 4/1 0/0
IP 12.2 16.0 16.2 16.1 31.1 11.1 12.0 14.2 19.2 TOTAL .258/.343/.417/.760 .730/.772 .757 .767 24/3 47/32
ERA-K/9 2.13/4.3 1.69/12.9 1.62/7.5 4.41/9.4 6.03/8.6 4.76/8.8 3.00/9.8 2.45/9.8 1.37/7.8 4.08/9.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (13-2-1)
 Norris (15-1-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 48/.213 65/.228 62/.153 77/.217 137/.283 48/.256 55/.239 62/.192 79/.194 .252  Gentry
 Reddick
 Cespedes
 Moss
 Blanks
 Crisp
4/20/6/2
0/0/37/1
33/3/0/1
16/0/6/1
1/0/0/0
0/25/0/0
OPS .591 .630 .397 .802 .771 .798 .755 .553 .484 .717
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 24/.667 32/.299 26/.511 44/.831 68/.797 17/.627 31/.483 28/.334 33/.875 .727
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 24/.513 33/.960 36/.314 33/.760 69/.745 31/.891 24/1.083 34/.745 46/.183 .706
Home 24/.513 33/.438 29/.281 42/.859 74/.801 19/.669 27/.594 29/.434 33/.460
Last 28d days 48/.591 35/.535 34/.577 47/.904 87/.724 33/.867 28/.851 31/.624 49/.413
HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 1/0/1 0/1/0 3/1/0 3/2/1 2/2/2 1/0/0 0/0/1 0/3/0 32/26/12
Usage ·····X·· ·o···X·o ·X···o·· ·X·o···X X·X···X· Xo·o··X· oo·o··X· ·o·X·X·o ··o··o·o
Indians Batters (4.17 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.21 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 26.Kazmir*
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 45.Johnson
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 33.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 50.Savery*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
36.Aguilar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/1 .000/.250/.000/.250 .333/.000 .000 4/.250 0/0 0/0
4.Aviles G/S/vP 11/.495 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 9/.333 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 102/58 .293/.316/.413/.729 .584/.837 .759 60/.752 4/1 2/1
24.Bourn* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 2/4.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 101/75 .250/.277/.354/.631 .522/.668 .534 86/.688 2/3 0/1
23.Brantley* G/S/vP 9/.444 2/1.000 3/.333 1/.000 5/1.467 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 166/112 .278/.337/.477/.814 .841/.802 .892 94/.859 4/0 7/1
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 14/.143 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 11/.586 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 172/116 .261/.343/.405/.748 .820/.711 .709 103/.801 4/1 3/5
8.Chisenhall* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 97/95 .353/.421/.459/.880 1.000/.877 .831 69/.750 2/0 0/3
10.Gomes G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 135/90 .262/.304/.468/.772 .535/.887 .838 76/.809 0/0 6/9
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 15/.343 ··· 1/.000 ··· 8/1.768 2/.000 ··· ··· 145/107 .279/.352/.434/.786 .615/.849 .798 90/.727 1/1 3/0
9.Raburn G/S/vP 17/.529 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 79/30 .181/.228/.222/.450 .454/.441 .404 35/.394 0/0 0/0
11.Ramirez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 20/15 .100/.100/.100/.200 .000/.267 .143 20/.200 0/0 0/0
41.Santana# G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 7/.429 1/2.000 ··· ··· 178/117 .154/.320/.294/.614 .622/.608 .555 103/.644 2/0 5/4
33.Swisher# G/S/vP 38/.440 ··· 3/1.334 2/.000 18/.860 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 181/123 .201/.304/.325/.629 .543/.667 .687 103/.695 0/0 3/5
IP 51.1 16.0 20.0 20.2 17.1 21.2 3.0 2.0 TOTAL .244/.322/.385/.707 .609/.752 .720 .716 26/7 35/40
ERA-K/9 2.28/7.4 2.25/10.1 3.60/11.7 2.61/6.5 6.75/8.3 2.08/5.4 0.00/9.0 0.00/0.0 2.94/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gomes (20-9-4)
 Santana (5-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 203/.216 59/.094 78/.224 83/.228 85/.333 90/.229 11/.100 7/.143 .216  Brantley
 Murphy
 Raburn
 Aviles
 Bourn
31/13/0/4
0/0/39/1
10/0/4/1
6/1/0/0
0/22/0/0
OPS .555 .281 .563 .598 .787 .579 .282 .286 .610
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 46/.673 26/.322 35/.412 37/.640 52/.818 41/.751 6/.167 1/.000 .649
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 157/.521 33/.248 43/.684 46/.563 33/.739 49/.439 5/.400 6/.333 .577
Road 96/.578 22/.136 34/.912 40/.500 38/.492 50/.648 7/.143 /
Last 28d days 100/.635 34/.369 44/.518 46/.731 41/.785 51/.547 11/.282 7/.286
HR/SB/CS 2/7/0 0/0/0 2/3/1 1/4/0 0/5/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 33/28/3
Usage ·····X·· ··ooo··· ····o·X· ··X···o· X···oX·· ··oX···· X······X ···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.