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Oakland Athletics vs. Detroit Tigers, at O.co Coliseum, May 27, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Start Time:
7:05pt (local), 10:05et
Venue:
O.co Coliseum
Tickets:
Tickets for games at O.co Coliseum
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
61° (based on last ten years)
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
48
On This Date:
50-50
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
52
On This Date:
51-39
Season Series
Mon, May 26, 2014 OAK 10  DET  0     

Tue, May 27, 2014 DET    @OAK 10:05pm
Wed, May 28, 2014 DET    @OAK 10:05pm
Thu, May 29, 2014 DET    @OAK  3:35pm
Mon, Jun 30, 2014 OAK    @DET  7:08pm
Tue, Jul 01, 2014 OAK    @DET  7:08pm
Wed, Jul 02, 2014 OAK    @DET  1:08pm

                         All times ET
Detroit Tigers
28-19, 1st, 5 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-11   Road:   14-8    ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  18-16   vsLHP:  10-3    1-Run:   8-6 
 vsEast:  8-1    vsCntrl:12-9    vsWest:  6-6  IL: 2-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 47 Mon, May 26  @OAK  L   0-10      28-19  1st  5.0 up
 46 Sun, May 25   TEX  L   4-12      28-18  1st  5.5 up
 45 Sat, May 24   TEX  L   2-12      28-17  1st  5.5 up
 44 Fri, May 23   TEX  W   7-2       28-16  1st  5.5 up
 43 Thu, May 22   TEX  L   2-9       27-16  1st  4.5 up
 42 Wed, May 21  @CLE  L  10-11(13)  27-15  1st  5.0 up
 41 Tue, May 20  @CLE  L   2-6       27-14  1st  6.0 up
 40 Mon, May 19  @CLE  L   4-5 (10)  27-13  1st  7.0 up
 39 Sun, May 18  @BOS  W   6-2       27-12  1st  7.0 up
 38 Sat, May 17  @BOS  W   6-1       26-12  1st  6.5 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:18-12
Oakland Athletics
31-20, 1st, 2½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-10   Road:   18-10   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  21-14   vsLHP:  10-6    1-Run:   8-5 
 vsEast:  3-6    vsCntrl:10-3    vsWest: 15-11 IL: 3-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 51 Mon, May 26   DET  W  10-0       31-20  1st  2.5 up
 50 Sun, May 25  @TOR  L   1-3       30-20  1st  1.5 up
 49 Sat, May 24  @TOR  L   2-5       30-19  1st  2.5 up
 48 Fri, May 23  @TOR  L   2-3       30-18  1st  2.5 up
 47 Thu, May 22  @TBR  L   2-5 (11)  30-17  1st  3.5 up
 46 Wed, May 21  @TBR  W   3-2       30-16  1st  4.0 up
 45 Tue, May 20  @TBR  W   3-0       29-16  1st  4.0 up
 44 Sun, May 18  @CLE  W  13-3       28-16  1st  3.5 up
 43 Sat, May 17  @CLE  W   6-2       27-16  1st  3.5 up
 42 Fri, May 16  @CLE  W  11-1       26-16  1st  3.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, May 26, 2014 OAK 10  DET  0        W:Tommy Milone (3-3), L: Drew Smyly (2-3), S: none

Thu, Aug 29, 2013 DET  7  OAK  6        W:Joaquin Benoit (4-0), L: Grant Balfour (0-3), S: none
Wed, Aug 28, 2013 OAK 14 @DET  4        W:Dan Straily (7-7), L: Doug Fister (11-7), S: Brett Anderson (1)
Tue, Aug 27, 2013 OAK  6 @DET  3  (5)   W:Tommy Milone (10-9), L: Justin Verlander (12-10), S: none
Mon, Aug 26, 2013 OAK  8 @DET  6        W:A.J. Griffin (11-9), L: Jose Alvarez (1-4), S: Grant Balfour (33)
Sun, Apr 14, 2013 DET 10 @OAK  1        W:Anibal Sanchez (2-0), L: Jarrod Parker (0-2), S: none
Sat, Apr 13, 2013 DET  7 @OAK  3        W:Justin Verlander (2-1), L: Brett Anderson (1-2), S: none
Fri, Apr 12, 2013 OAK  4  DET  3 (12)   W:Chris Resop (1-0), L: Brayan Villarreal (0-2), S: none
Thu, Sep 20, 2012 OAK 12 @DET  4        W:Pat Neshek (2-1), L: Anibal Sanchez (8-13), S: none
Wed, Sep 19, 2012 DET  6  OAK  2        W:Justin Verlander (15-8), L: Brett Anderson (4-2), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - OAK over 1-0; 2013 - OAK won 4-3; 2012 - DET won 4-3; All-Time - DET leads 988-912

SP: Max Scherzer (29, RHP, 6-1, 2.59)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (6-1) 66.0 53 19 19 22 78 6 2.59
2013 (21-3) 214.1 152 73 69 56 240 18 2.90
2012 (16-7) 187.2 179 82 78 60 231 23 3.74
Last 7 GS 6-0 46.0 37 13 13 17 53 4 2.54 62
2014-05-21 @CLE ND 7.0 12 7 7 2 5 1 113 28
2014-05-16 @BOS W 6.0 3 0 0 4 7 0 106 69
2014-05-10 MIN W 6.0 5 3 3 4 6 1 116 52
2014-05-05 HOU W 8.0 3 0 0 1 9 0 111 84
2014-04-30 @CHW W 6.0 4 0 0 3 7 0 105 68
2014-04-24 CHW W 6.0 7 2 2 1 10 1 110 59
2014-04-19 LAA W 7.0 3 1 1 2 9 1 111 74
Last 5 v.OAK 1-1 24.1 27 16 14 7 37 6 5.18 50
2013-08-29 OAK ND 5.0 8 6 5 1 5 2 101 33
2013-04-12 @OAK ND 6.0 5 2 1 1 11 0 100 66
2012-09-18 OAK ND 2.0 2 1 1 2 4 0 44 50
2012-05-10 @OAK W 6.1 5 2 2 2 9 1 106 62
2011-09-15 @OAK L 5.0 7 5 5 1 8 3 91 40

SP: Sonny Gray (24, RHP, 5-1, 1.99)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (5-1) 68.0 51 17 15 23 55 4 1.99
2013 (5-3) 64.0 51 22 19 20 67 4 2.67
Last 7 GS 3-1 49.0 35 13 13 16 36 4 2.39 62
2014-05-22 @TBR ND 8.0 5 1 1 2 3 0 93 69
2014-05-16 @CLE W 6.0 2 1 1 3 9 1 90 70
2014-05-10 WSN ND 7.0 6 3 3 2 3 1 96 54
2014-05-04 @BOS ND 6.0 6 2 2 2 3 1 102 53
2014-04-28 @TEX W 9.0 2 0 0 1 6 0 108 88
2014-04-23 TEX L 7.0 5 3 3 4 8 1 108 59
2014-04-18 HOU W 6.0 9 3 3 2 4 0 106 44
Has never faced DET as starter.

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

Tigers Batters (4.68 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.10 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Gray
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 29.Francis*
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 45.Johnson
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 33.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 6/.167 ··· ··· 132/101 .229/.359/.413/.772 .680/.799 .976 72/.883 0/3 4/2
24.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 22/.642 ··· 10/.875 2/.500 ··· 202/156 .321/.366/.533/.899 .823/.920 .873 107/1.053 0/1 7/2
9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 163/117 .233/.276/.360/.636 .766/.589 .579 87/.577 0/1 4/3
20.Davis G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 3/1.167 13/.924 ··· 7/.000 1/.000 ··· 156/113 .287/.333/.406/.739 .747/.736 .673 75/.633 15/3 3/2
50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· 47/29 .250/.298/.273/.571 .222/.798 .608 26/.569 1/0 0/3
48.Hunter G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 16/.732 ··· 7/.762 2/1.000 ··· 175/136 .271/.303/.440/.743 .667/.763 .848 97/.663 1/1 6/1
14.Jackson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 10/.633 ··· 3/.333 3/.333 ··· 188/139 .258/.324/.411/.736 .838/.701 .541 100/.595 6/1 3/3
32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 64/54 .250/.344/.321/.665 .900/.625 .406 43/.569 2/0 0/1
3.Kinsler G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 7/.762 6/2.067 ··· 9/.958 3/.666 2/3.000 211/166 .330/.360/.477/.837 .923/.813 .819 111/.949 6/3 4/1
28.Martinez G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 53/37 .255/.321/.468/.789 .125/1.072 1.033 42/.836 2/1 2/0
41.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 12/.533 ··· 7/.572 2/2.000 ··· 200/154 .341/.395/.609/1.004 1.286/.918 1.108 111/1.156 2/2 12/2
27.Romine# G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 105/84 .208/.269/.260/.530 .749/.475 .382 63/.472 4/0 1/6
29.Worth G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 40/21 .189/.225/.216/.441 .216/.649 .351 32/.452 0/1 0/1
IP 68.0 20.1 24.0 6.0 25.0 21.0 31.0 6.0 TOTAL .275/.329/.428/.758 .758/.758 .736 .774 39/17 46/32
ERA-K/9 1.99/7.3 2.21/9.3 3.00/12.4 4.50/7.5 2.88/7.2 6.00/6.9 2.32/4.4 1.50/4.5 2.84/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (25-18-1)
 Holaday (6-2-0)
 Martinez (3-1-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 275/.206 77/.145 92/.202 24/.217 101/.242 102/.318 123/.235 23/.143 .219  Davis
 Jackson
 Kelly
 Hunter
 Martinez
36/1/0/4
0/44/0/1
3/2/5/0
0/0/41/0
7/0/6/0
OPS .570 .366 .512 .641 .638 .765 .563 .408 .612
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 164/.627 31/.373 35/.412 3/.000 48/.660 60/.784 52/.746 11/.495 .675
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 111/.485 46/.358 57/.574 21/.736 53/.619 42/.738 71/.432 12/.333 .565
Home 139/.689 37/.363 47/.264 20/.700 43/.696 47/1.045 45/.483 4/.500
Last 28d days 107/.580 39/.543 37/.222 24/.641 48/.767 46/.788 66/.449 23/.408
HR/SB/CS 4/1/0 0/0/0 2/3/1 1/0/0 2/6/0 0/6/0 1/1/1 0/0/0 39/34/4
Usage ····X··· ·o··oo·· o····XX· ··o····· ·X··ooo· ·X·o···· o···X·X· ··X··X··
Athletics Batters (5.06 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.28 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Scherzer
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 44.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 49.Knebel
G/S/vB		 46.Krol*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 57.Reed
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
88.Blanks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 26/14 .250/.308/.375/.683 .879/.516 .896 26/.683 0/0 1/0
18.Callaspo# G/S/vP 18/.666 1/2.000 7/1.000 6/.666 1/.000 ··· 15/.466 2/1.000 170/108 .236/.335/.324/.660 .606/.690 .645 71/.555 0/0 3/4
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 4/.500 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 3/1.334 ··· 197/142 .247/.310/.500/.810 .819/.806 .866 99/.810 0/1 9/1
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 11/.819 2/.000 12/.864 5/.000 1/.000 ··· 14/.310 ··· 155/112 .240/.344/.380/.724 .592/.778 .934 70/.608 9/1 3/2
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 6/.667 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 4/.833 ··· 230/172 .276/.370/.523/.892 .971/.866 .726 102/.912 1/0 12/8
3.Gentry G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 6/.650 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 104/50 .261/.333/.326/.659 .701/.615 .606 63/.553 8/0 0/1
5.Jaso* G/S/vP 9/.347 1/.000 5/.400 2/.000 ··· ··· 6/.900 ··· 127/116 .282/.370/.464/.834 .384/.874 .984 60/1.011 1/0 4/1
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 6/1.333 2/.000 6/1.333 5/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 211/155 .246/.348/.374/.722 .704/.728 .687 87/.550 0/0 3/6
37.Moss* G/S/vP 13/.930 2/.500 2/2.500 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 5/1.267 ··· 199/160 .289/.377/.584/.961 1.112/.924 .989 97/1.106 1/0 12/2
36.Norris G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 137/75 .316/.416/.513/.929 1.047/.829 .940 79/.867 2/0 5/1
1.Punto# G/S/vP 8/.286 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 100/47 .233/.310/.278/.588 .583/.590 .633 46/.614 2/0 0/3
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 8/1.250 1/.000 4/.000 5/1.000 ··· ··· 5/.200 ··· 165/110 .216/.273/.346/.619 .436/.708 .719 78/.573 1/0 4/2
28.Sogard* G/S/vP 6/1.500 1/no AB 1/2.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 121/104 .185/.258/.222/.481 .301/.511 .538 55/.410 4/1 0/0
IP 66.0 20.1 20.1 17.1 3.0 18.0 18.2 20.2 TOTAL .250/.335/.411/.747 .726/.756 .777 .736 30/3 57/37
ERA-K/9 2.59/10.6 3.54/11.5 3.10/11.1 6.75/4.7 9.00/9.0 2.50/5.5 3.86/8.7 3.92/7.4 3.90/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (14-2-1)
 Norris (20-2-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 266/.221 85/.244 85/.269 80/.328 16/.357 75/.257 75/.197 86/.278 .256  Gentry
 Cespedes
 Reddick
 Moss
 Crisp
 Blanks
6/24/8/3
39/3/0/3
0/0/44/1
18/0/7/1
0/33/0/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .652 .666 .676 .935 1.009 .750 .628 .755 .724
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 144/.698 41/.740 39/.741 31/.833 7/1.571 38/.642 37/.835 38/.927 .687
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 122/.599 44/.595 46/.623 49/1.002 9/.583 37/.852 38/.439 48/.624 .756
Road 133/.763 31/.706 41/.454 51/.933 8/.500 44/.538 37/.709 28/.783
Last 28d days 137/.654 44/.500 44/.570 48/.865 16/1.009 42/.699 28/.454 48/.778
HR/SB/CS 6/3/4 3/3/0 0/2/1 2/0/1 0/1/0 3/0/0 3/4/0 2/3/2 40/34/21
Usage ·····X·· ·o·oXo·X ·X···o·o X·X·oX·X X·X····· ·o·X·X·X ·X···X·· ·X··X·X·

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

OAK  5.06

BOS  4.06

SDP  3.17

 RA/G

OAK  3.10

DET  4.28

ARI  5.04

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .378

B. Posey  .264

B. Miller  .153

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .480

J. Uribe  .331

J. Gyorko  .218

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .720

S. Perez  .407

B. Miller  .250

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.200

J. Reyes  .736

B. Miller  .473

 ERA

A. Wainwright  1.67

A. Burnett  3.51

K. Correia  6.34

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

A. Cashner  7.38

C. Young  3.77

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.