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Oakland Athletics vs. Texas Rangers, at O.co Coliseum, June 16, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Monday, June 16, 2014
Start Time:
7:05pt (local), 10:05et
Venue:
O.co Coliseum
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at O.co Coliseum
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
66° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
70
On This Date:
13-35
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
70
On This Date:
46-64
Season Series
Mon, Apr 21, 2014 TEX  4 @OAK  3     
Tue, Apr 22, 2014 TEX  5 @OAK  4     
Wed, Apr 23, 2014 TEX  3 @OAK  0     
Mon, Apr 28, 2014 OAK  4 @TEX  0     
Tue, Apr 29, 2014 OAK  9 @TEX  3     
Wed, Apr 30, 2014 OAK 12 @TEX  1     

Mon, Jun 16, 2014 TEX    @OAK 10:05pm
Tue, Jun 17, 2014 TEX    @OAK 10:05pm
Wed, Jun 18, 2014 TEX    @OAK  3:35pm
Fri, Jul 25, 2014 OAK    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, Jul 26, 2014 OAK    @TEX  8:05pm
Sun, Jul 27, 2014 OAK    @TEX  7:05pm
Tue, Sep 16, 2014 TEX    @OAK 10:05pm
Wed, Sep 17, 2014 TEX    @OAK 10:05pm
Thu, Sep 18, 2014 TEX    @OAK  3:35pm
Thu, Sep 25, 2014 OAK    @TEX  8:05pm
Fri, Sep 26, 2014 OAK    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, Sep 27, 2014 OAK    @TEX  8:05pm
Sun, Sep 28, 2014 OAK    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Texas Rangers
34-35, 4th, 8 GB, 3½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   16-19   Road:   18-16   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  26-25   vsLHP:   8-10   1-Run:  12-8 
 vsEast:  5-10   vsCntrl: 9-6    vsWest: 15-12 IL: 5-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 69 Sun, Jun 15  @SEA  L   1-5       34-35  4th  8.0 gb
 68 Sat, Jun 14  @SEA  W   4-3       34-34  3rd  7.0 gb
 67 Fri, Jun 13  @SEA  W   1-0       33-34  4th  7.0 gb
 66 Wed, Jun 11   MIA  W   6-0       32-34  4th  8.0 gb
 65 Tue, Jun 10   MIA  L   5-8       31-34  4th  8.0 gb
 64 Mon, Jun  9   CLE  L   7-17      31-33  4th  8.0 gb
 63 Sun, Jun  8   CLE  L   2-3       31-32  4th  8.0 gb
 62 Sat, Jun  7   CLE  L   3-8       31-31  4th  7.0 gb
 61 Fri, Jun  6   CLE  W   6-4       31-30  4th  7.0 gb
 60 Thu, Jun  5   BAL  W   8-6       30-30  4th  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16
Oakland Athletics
42-27, 1st, 4½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-13   Road:   23-14   ExtrInn: 7-4 
 vsRHP:  28-20   vsLHP:  14-7    1-Run:   9-9 
 vsEast:  9-9    vsCntrl:11-5    vsWest: 19-13 IL: 3-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 69 Sun, Jun 15   NYY  W  10-5       42-27  1st  4.5 up
 68 Sat, Jun 14   NYY  W   5-1       41-27  1st  3.5 up
 67 Fri, Jun 13   NYY  L   0-7       40-27  1st  3.5 up
 66 Wed, Jun 11  @LAA  W   7-1       40-26  1st  3.5 up
 65 Tue, Jun 10  @LAA  L   1-2 (14)  39-26  1st  2.5 up
 64 Mon, Jun  9  @LAA  L   1-4       39-25  1st  3.5 up
 63 Sun, Jun  8  @BAL  W  11-1       39-24  1st  4.5 up
 62 Sat, Jun  7  @BAL  L   3-6       38-24  1st  4.5 up
 61 Fri, Jun  6  @BAL  W   4-3 (11)  38-23  1st  5.5 up
 60 Thu, Jun  5  @NYY  L   1-2       37-23  1st  5.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Apr 30, 2014 OAK 12 @TEX  1        W:Jesse Chavez (2-0), L: Robbie Ross (1-2), S: none
Tue, Apr 29, 2014 OAK  9 @TEX  3        W:Scott Kazmir (4-0), L: Martin Perez (4-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 28, 2014 OAK  4 @TEX  0        W:Sonny Gray (4-1), L: Yu Darvish (1-1), S: none
Wed, Apr 23, 2014 TEX  3 @OAK  0        W:Martin Perez (4-0), L: Sonny Gray (3-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 22, 2014 TEX  5 @OAK  4        W:Alexi Ogando (1-1), L: Luke Gregerson (0-1), S: Joakim Soria (5)
Mon, Apr 21, 2014 TEX  4 @OAK  3        W:Neal Cotts (1-1), L: Sean Doolittle (0-1), S: Joakim Soria (4)

Sun, Sep 15, 2013 OAK  5 @TEX  1        W:Tommy Milone (11-9), L: Martin Perez (9-5), S: none
Sat, Sep 14, 2013 OAK  1 @TEX  0        W:Bartolo Colon (16-6), L: Yu Darvish (12-9), S: Grant Balfour (38)
Fri, Sep 13, 2013 OAK  9 @TEX  8        W:Dan Straily (10-7), L: Derek Holland (9-9), S: Sean Doolittle (2)
Wed, Sep 04, 2013 OAK 11  TEX  4        W:Jarrod Parker (11-6), L: Yu Darvish (12-7), S: Brett Anderson (2)
Season Series: 2014 - tied 3-3; 2013 - OAK won 10-9; 2012 - OAK won 11-8; All-Time - OAK leads 413-409

SP: Colby Lewis (34, RHP, 4-4, 5.74)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-4) 58.0 82 38 37 23 49 6 5.74
2012 (6-6) 105.0 99 48 40 14 93 16 3.43
2011 (14-10) 200.1 187 103 98 56 169 35 4.40
Last 7 GS 2-3 36.2 56 28 27 18 29 3 6.63 38
2014-06-10 MIA ND 5.0 7 3 3 4 3 0 106 40
2014-06-05 BAL ND 5.0 7 5 5 2 4 1 98 35
2014-05-30 @WSN L 5.2 9 6 5 2 5 1 97 32
2014-05-25 @DET W 5.2 5 2 2 5 2 0 108 48
2014-05-20 SEA L 6.0 9 5 5 3 6 0 104 37
2014-05-12 @HOU W 5.2 7 0 0 2 8 0 108 61
2014-05-07 COL L 3.2 12 7 7 0 1 1 79 10
Last 5 v.OAK 2-1 33.0 21 10 10 5 28 3 2.73 63
2012-07-18 @OAK ND 5.0 3 1 1 2 3 1 75 58
2012-06-06 @OAK L 8.0 6 2 2 0 3 0 101 65
2011-09-22 @OAK ND 6.1 4 3 3 2 7 1 100 58
2011-09-09 OAK W 7.1 5 3 3 1 7 1 99 62
2011-08-13 @OAK W 6.1 3 1 1 0 8 0 101 71

SP: Drew Pomeranz (25, LHP, 5-3, 1.90)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (5-3) 52.0 38 13 11 21 44 6 1.90
2013 (0-4) 21.2 25 15 15 19 19 4 6.23
2012 (2-9) 96.2 97 57 53 46 83 14 4.93
Last 7 GS 4-2 38.1 27 10 8 15 33 4 1.88 59
2014-06-10 @LAA ND 7.0 4 1 0 3 2 0 89 66
2014-06-05 @NYY L 7.0 6 2 1 1 7 1 101 65
2014-05-30 LAA W 5.1 4 5 5 3 5 2 95 42
2014-05-25 @TOR L 4.0 5 2 2 4 3 1 90 43
2014-05-20 @TBR W 5.0 3 0 0 2 3 0 89 62
2014-05-13 CHW W 5.0 3 0 0 2 8 0 82 67
2014-05-07 SEA W 5.0 2 0 0 0 5 0 68 68
Has never faced TEX as starter.

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

Rangers Batters (4.19 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.17 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 13.Pomeranz*
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
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		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 9/.666 6/.533 3/1.000 1/.000 5/.200 4/.500 294/216 .262/.310/.345/.655 .809/.602 .650 104/.692 16/5 2/8
29.Beltre G/S/vP ··· ··· 9/.444 4/.500 6/1.100 2/1.000 9/1.653 4/1.750 230/176 .310/.357/.488/.845 .829/.849 .797 104/.996 0/0 8/6
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 2/2.500 ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 1/.000 143/101 .234/.273/.406/.680 .663/.687 .771 48/.842 0/0 5/2
15.Choice G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 1/2.000 173/112 .194/.266/.335/.601 .764/.518 .610 72/.600 1/0 6/1
17.Choo* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.333 3/.333 4/2.667 2/.000 4/1.250 1/.000 274/190 .258/.394/.398/.792 .870/.758 .924 106/.609 3/3 6/3
60.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 48/43 .378/.417/.489/.906 .800/.919 1.034 48/.906 0/0 0/0
2.Martin* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 5/.400 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 3/.666 244/180 .267/.315/.357/.673 .547/.716 .546 86/.637 15/6 3/5
16.Murphy G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 113/85 .204/.283/.296/.579 .536/.593 .712 31/.554 0/1 2/0
73.Odor* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 91/71 .286/.307/.440/.747 .311/.869 .792 64/.830 0/3 2/2
51.Rios G/S/vP 1/.000 2/1.000 6/1.334 4/1.750 15/.414 ··· 7/.629 3/.666 284/218 .322/.356/.468/.824 1.221/.707 .816 104/.889 12/8 3/3
19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 35/24 .188/.257/.219/.476 .636/.393 .423 23/.499 0/2 0/0
3.Sardinas# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 58/40 .302/.351/.321/.672 .882/.578 .489 43/.674 1/1 0/3
64.Snyder* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/18 .214/.389/.429/.817 /.817 1.214 18/.817 0/0 1/0
IP 52.0 27.2 15.1 32.0 10.2 35.1 27.2 41.1 TOTAL .264/.326/.387/.713 .777/.690 .723 .729 49/29 46/49
ERA-K/9 1.90/7.6 1.63/8.4 4.11/10.0 2.25/12.4 6.75/7.6 2.04/8.7 6.18/6.2 1.96/4.4 2.88/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (19-16-4)
 Gimenez (2-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 207/.204 105/.144 72/.214 118/.174 46/.286 139/.223 140/.333 162/.222 .226  Martin
 Choo
 Choice
 Rios
 Robertson
0/65/0/4
45/0/0/3
25/7/6/2
0/0/63/2
10/4/2/0
OPS .602 .394 .759 .440 .810 .584 .847 .547 .629
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 42/.745 43/.445 32/1.140 44/.326 14/.558 60/.560 82/.971 71/.646 .687
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 165/.565 62/.359 40/.450 74/.508 32/.910 79/.604 58/.679 91/.471 .588
Home 75/.465 52/.342 31/.825 57/.253 28/.857 61/.537 64/1.118 63/.526
Last 28d days 114/.673 37/.568 19/1.348 37/.219 26/.900 50/.633 49/.940 60/.475
HR/SB/CS 6/5/0 0/1/1 2/2/0 2/3/1 2/0/0 2/7/0 2/7/0 2/1/1 55/41/6
Usage ·····X·· o·o···oo X···o·oX ·X···X·· ··X··X·· o···XX·· X·X·X·X· ·X···X·o
Athletics Batters (5.09 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Lewis
G/S/vB		 25.Baker
G/S/vB		 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 44.Frasor
G/S/vB		 46.Ross*
G/S/vB		 28.Soria
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
88.Blanks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 58/28 .306/.397/.449/.846 .905/.776 .953 46/.948 0/0 2/1
18.Callaspo# G/S/vP 13/.322 24/.855 3/.333 7/.453 9/.819 3/.666 3/1.167 226/146 .218/.314/.299/.614 .480/.686 .684 76/.471 0/1 3/4
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 5/2.300 ··· 4/.000 2/.000 10/.956 2/.000 1/.000 277/201 .258/.307/.492/.799 .775/.808 .774 111/.747 1/1 12/1
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 26/.490 13/.616 18/.944 14/.607 7/.572 11/.673 2/2.500 222/169 .274/.376/.435/.811 .817/.808 .925 94/.887 11/2 5/2
20.Donaldson G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.250 5/.650 7/1.286 2/.000 2/.000 309/230 .250/.337/.489/.826 1.049/.752 .768 110/.724 1/0 17/13
3.Gentry G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 3/1.667 3/1.667 1/.000 139/65 .280/.338/.328/.666 .701/.626 .708 50/.553 12/0 0/1
5.Jaso* G/S/vP 6/.000 8/.875 4/.250 ··· 4/.833 3/.000 1/no AB 185/166 .261/.351/.435/.786 .388/.830 .932 69/.696 1/0 6/1
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 12/.916 6/.334 4/.250 6/.167 4/1.000 3/.000 1/.000 279/202 .224/.320/.346/.666 .614/.686 .691 88/.468 0/0 4/7
37.Moss* G/S/vP 5/.200 ··· 6/.000 2/no AB 8/.875 1/no AB 2/.000 267/212 .264/.360/.537/.896 .932/.887 .891 98/.765 1/0 16/3
36.Norris G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 3/1.000 3/.000 7/.858 ··· 2/.000 180/99 .305/.408/.503/.911 1.097/.756 .884 69/.771 2/1 7/3
12.Parrino# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 7/5 .167/.286/.333/.619 1.500/.200 .619 7/.619 0/0 0/1
1.Punto# G/S/vP 3/.667 ··· 6/.750 7/.000 2/.000 6/.000 2/.000 132/64 .254/.356/.325/.681 .610/.759 .808 44/.918 2/1 1/4
28.Sogard* G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 3/.667 1/.000 4/1.000 2/1.000 1/.000 156/136 .200/.271/.236/.507 .311/.536 .627 47/.598 4/2 0/0
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 31/29 .323/.323/.452/.774 .000/.828 .333 31/.774 0/0 1/0
IP 58.0 28.1 27.0 23.1 60.2 25.0 33.1 TOTAL .249/.333/.407/.740 .731/.744 .778 .696 37/8 79/49
ERA-K/9 5.74/7.6 7.62/6.7 3.67/10.7 1.54/10.0 5.34/5.6 1.80/12.2 3.24/8.1 4.46/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (17-2-1)
 Norris (24-3-3)
 Vogt (0-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 275/.336 121/.270 119/.271 94/.185 280/.324 94/.144 135/.215 .279  Cespedes
 Moss
 Gentry
 Blanks
 Vogt
 Crisp
53/4/0/9
21/0/14/4
7/28/15/3
1/0/1/0
0/0/5/0
0/49/0/0
OPS .872 .871 .717 .536 .843 .370 .722 .773
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 148/.931 71/.804 49/.809 41/.521 95/.806 54/.491 51/.735 .784
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 127/.801 50/.969 70/.652 53/.547 185/.862 40/.205 84/.714 .763
Road 127/.810 70/.809 62/.791 42/.739 109/.953 51/.396 60/.710
Last 28d days 133/.841 99/.914 41/.649 33/.380 54/.895 38/.320 44/.644
HR/SB/CS 6/12/4 8/1/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 6/1/2 0/0/0 7/2/2 64/30/20
Usage ·····X·· ······X· ·X···o·X ··o··X·o X·····o· ·oo··X·· ·Xo··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

COL  5.10

KCR  4.10

SDP  3.01

 RA/G

OAK  3.17

PIT  4.23

ARI  4.86

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .362

B. Hamilton  .264

J. Gyorko  .162

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .454

A. Escobar  .328

J. Gyorko  .213

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .674

J. Ellsbury  .405

J. Gyorko  .270

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.128

M. Joyce  .739

J. Gyorko  .482

 ERA

T. Hudson  1.81

K. Gibson  3.55

J. Nicasio  5.92

 K/9IP

S. Strasburg  10.82

A. Cashner  7.40

C. Young  4.30

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.