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Oakland Athletics vs. Texas Rangers, at O.co Coliseum, June 18, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Start Time:
12:35pt (local), 3:35et
Venue:
O.co Coliseum
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at O.co Coliseum
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
66° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
72
On This Date:
22-24
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
72
On This Date:
46-51
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 14 @OAK  8     
Tue, Jun 17, 2014 OAK 10  TEX  6     

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
35-36, 4th, 8 GB, 3½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   16-19   Road:   19-17   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  26-25   vsLHP:   9-11   1-Run:  12-8 
 vsEast:  5-10   vsCntrl: 9-6    vsWest: 16-13 IL: 5-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 71 Tue, Jun 17  @OAK  L   6-10      35-36  4th  8.0 gb
 70 Mon, Jun 16  @OAK  W  14-8       35-35  4th  7.0 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15
Oakland Athletics
43-28, 1st, 4½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   20-14   Road:   23-14   ExtrInn: 7-4 
 vsRHP:  29-21   vsLHP:  14-7    1-Run:   9-9 
 vsEast:  9-9    vsCntrl:11-5    vsWest: 20-14 IL: 3-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 71 Tue, Jun 17   TEX  W  10-6       43-28  1st  4.5 up
 70 Mon, Jun 16   TEX  L   8-14      42-28  1st  4.5 up
 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jun 17, 2014 OAK 10  TEX  6        W:Tommy Milone (5-3), L: Yu Darvish (7-3), S: none
Mon, Jun 16, 2014 TEX 14 @OAK  8        W:Colby Lewis (5-4), L: Drew Pomeranz (5-4), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2014 - tied 4-4; 2013 - OAK won 10-9; 2012 - OAK won 11-8; All-Time - OAK leads 414-410

SP: Nick Tepesch (25, RHP, 2-2, 3.94)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-2) 32.0 31 15 14 13 23 5 3.94
2013 (4-6) 93.0 100 53 50 27 76 12 4.84
Last 7 GS 2-2 35.1 35 17 16 14 28 6 4.08 50
2014-06-13 @SEA ND 6.1 2 0 0 2 5 0 73 72
2014-06-07 CLE L 5.1 8 4 4 4 1 1 88 33
2014-05-31 @WSN L 2.0 7 5 4 2 1 2 62 23
2014-05-26 @MIN W 6.2 7 2 2 0 4 1 104 56
2014-05-21 SEA W 6.1 5 3 3 2 4 1 112 53
2014-05-14 @HOU ND 5.1 2 1 1 3 8 0 104 65
2013-09-08 @LAA ND 3.1 4 2 2 1 5 1 63 48
Last 5 v.OAK 0-0 3.2 6 6 6 1 0 0 14.73 24
2013-06-17 OAK ND 3.2 6 6 6 1 0 0 72 24

SP: Sonny Gray (24, RHP, 6-3, 2.93)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (6-3) 92.0 77 32 30 32 79 6 2.93
2013 (5-3) 64.0 51 22 19 20 67 4 2.67
Last 7 GS 2-2 45.0 39 20 20 16 39 4 4.00 55
2014-06-13 NYY L 6.0 7 3 3 1 7 0 103 52
2014-06-07 @BAL L 5.1 4 5 5 4 7 1 100 43
2014-06-01 LAA W 6.2 7 3 3 3 5 0 113 50
2014-05-27 DET ND 6.0 8 4 4 1 5 1 102 44
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
Last 5 v.TEX 1-1 16.0 7 3 3 5 14 1 1.69 74
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

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

Rangers Batters (4.35 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.37 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Gray
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		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 8/.125 4/.500 9/.666 6/.533 4/1.667 1/.000 5/.200 6/.800 4/.000 304/218 .268/.314/.355/.669 .830/.609 .678 106/.701 16/5 2/8
29.Beltre G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 10/.700 4/.500 7/1.029 3/.666 9/1.653 5/1.400 2/1.000 239/179 .314/.360/.491/.851 .845/.852 .810 105/.967 0/0 8/6
61.Chirinos G/S/vP 6/.167 1/5.000 4/.500 2/2.500 1/.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 148/102 .248/.285/.436/.721 .765/.700 .847 50/1.001 0/0 6/2
15.Choice G/S/vP 7/.629 1/.000 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 179/113 .194/.268/.350/.618 .722/.560 .643 71/.702 1/0 7/2
17.Choo* G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.000 3/.333 3/.333 5/2.050 2/.000 4/1.250 2/.000 2/3.500 283/191 .249/.385/.384/.769 .802/.754 .865 107/.527 3/3 6/3
60.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 52/45 .347/.385/.449/.834 .571/.876 .909 48/.874 0/0 0/0
2.Martin* G/S/vP 6/.666 2/.000 2/1.500 6/.334 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 4/1.000 ··· 247/181 .268/.315/.357/.672 .529/.723 .549 89/.638 15/6 3/5
16.Murphy G/S/vP 5/1.000 2/2.500 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 120/86 .212/.286/.356/.641 .786/.586 .798 38/.755 0/1 4/0
73.Odor* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/4.000 ··· 100/73 .312/.330/.505/.835 .656/.902 .933 70/.982 0/3 3/3
51.Rios G/S/vP 6/1.000 2/1.000 7/1.142 4/1.750 16/.388 1/.000 7/.629 4/.500 1/2.000 293/221 .320/.352/.462/.813 1.183/.697 .797 105/.866 12/8 3/4
19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/3.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 46/26 .209/.261/.256/.517 .700/.361 .509 26/.668 1/2 0/0
3.Sardinas# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 58/40 .302/.351/.321/.672 .882/.578 .489 40/.674 1/1 0/3
64.Snyder* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 20/20 .188/.350/.375/.725 /.725 .972 20/.725 0/0 1/0
IP 92.0 29.0 16.2 33.0 12.2 36.2 27.2 43.0 1.1 TOTAL .265/.326/.393/.719 .789/.692 .735 .751 50/29 51/52
ERA-K/9 2.93/7.7 2.17/8.7 4.86/9.2 2.18/12.5 7.11/6.4 1.96/8.6 6.18/6.2 2.30/4.2 0.00/0.0 3.05/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (20-16-4)
 Gimenez (4-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 380/.227 112/.165 79/.238 121/.169 55/.280 143/.216 140/.333 172/.228 4/.000 .229  Martin
 Choice
 Rios
 Choo
 Robertson
0/67/0/4
27/7/6/3
0/0/65/3
45/0/0/3
12/6/2/1
OPS .619 .488 .832 .429 .795 .567 .847 .566 .000 .638
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 222/.601 46/.462 33/1.100 46/.311 16/.481 61/.550 82/.971 75/.694 3/.000 .689
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 158/.644 66/.502 46/.640 75/.501 39/.917 82/.580 58/.679 97/.467 1/.000 .603
Home 220/.713 59/.523 38/.959 60/.240 37/.824 65/.502 64/1.118 73/.574 4/.000
Last 28d days 136/.666 42/.794 26/1.388 32/.156 35/.853 47/.513 49/.940 63/.570 /
HR/SB/CS 6/1/0 2/1/1 3/2/0 2/3/1 2/0/0 2/7/0 2/7/0 2/1/1 0/0/0 60/42/6
Usage ····X··· oXo·o··· ·XX···o· o··X···X ·X··X··X o·o···XX ··X·X·X· Xo·X···X ········
Athletics Batters (5.20 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.89 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Tepesch
G/S/vB		 25.Baker
G/S/vB		 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 44.Frasor
G/S/vB		 49.Poreda*
G/S/vB		 39.Rowen
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 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 61/29 .294/.393/.431/.825 .894/.747 .906 46/.984 0/0 2/1
7.Callaspo# G/S/vP 3/.333 24/.855 4/.500 7/.453 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.666 4/1.417 235/154 .240/.336/.324/.660 .489/.748 .790 82/.635 0/1 3/5
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 4/.250 1/.000 5/.200 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 287/209 .259/.310/.498/.808 .843/.795 .794 112/.823 1/1 13/1
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 5/.400 13/.616 19/.892 15/.729 3/.333 1/2.000 11/.673 2/2.500 233/178 .282/.379/.446/.825 .785/.838 .944 101/.884 12/2 5/2
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 4/1.167 ··· 4/.250 7/.762 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 316/236 .251/.335/.484/.819 1.035/.749 .758 108/.750 1/0 17/15
3.Gentry G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.667 1/.000 140/65 .278/.336/.325/.661 .691/.626 .697 46/.604 12/0 0/1
5.Jaso* G/S/vP 2/1.500 8/.875 4/.250 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 1/no AB 191/172 .271/.361/.446/.807 .388/.852 .967 69/.774 1/0 6/1
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 4/1.250 7/.286 5/.200 7/.143 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 289/211 .225/.326/.344/.671 .606/.695 .699 98/.500 0/0 4/8
37.Moss* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 7/.000 2/no AB ··· ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 277/220 .261/.354/.535/.889 .896/.887 .875 99/.715 1/0 17/3
36.Norris G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.000 4/.750 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 4/1.833 187/106 .312/.414/.535/.949 1.097/.834 .970 68/.878 2/1 8/3
1.Punto# G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.629 7/.000 1/no AB ··· 6/.000 2/.000 136/67 .246/.346/.314/.659 .601/.721 .737 40/.869 2/1 1/4
28.Sogard* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 3/.667 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 158/138 .199/.274/.234/.508 .311/.537 .627 44/.545 6/2 0/0
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 39/37 .359/.359/.462/.821 .000/.865 .714 39/.821 0/0 1/0
IP 32.0 29.1 29.0 24.0 14.1 2.0 25.0 34.1 TOTAL .253/.337/.413/.749 .730/.757 .795 .739 40/8 82/53
ERA-K/9 3.94/6.5 7.36/6.8 3.41/11.2 2.25/10.1 3.14/6.9 0.00/4.5 1.80/12.2 3.67/7.9 4.55/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (18-2-1)
 Norris (24-3-3)
 Vogt (0-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 136/.256 124/.263 127/.257 99/.209 60/.309 8/.333 94/.144 143/.234 .282  Cespedes
 Moss
 Gentry
 Blanks
 Vogt
 Crisp
55/4/0/9
21/0/14/4
7/28/16/3
1/0/1/0
0/0/7/0
0/51/0/0
OPS .794 .850 .691 .584 .858 .619 .370 .772 .781
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 93/.792 73/.782 50/.791 43/.546 23/.848 5/.900 54/.491 55/.755 .797
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 43/.791 51/.949 77/.625 56/.612 37/.863 3/.000 40/.205 88/.782 .766
Road 83/.753 73/.775 70/.737 47/.814 29/.824 8/.619 51/.396 68/.813
Last 28d days 89/.902 102/.886 45/.604 38/.525 10/.900 8/.619 35/.348 52/.797
HR/SB/CS 5/1/2 8/1/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 1/1/3 0/0/0 0/0/0 8/2/2 67/33/20
Usage ····X··· o······· XX·X···o oo··o··X o······· ·Xo····· ···oo··X oX·Xo··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  5.20

ARI  4.11

SDP  2.96

 RA/G

OAK  3.37

LAA  4.23

ARI  4.95

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .361

D. Wright  .266

J. Gyorko  .162

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .450

D. Jeter  .330

J. Gyorko  .213

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .661

Y. Molina  .408

J. Gyorko  .270

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.111

M. Carpenter  .743

J. Gyorko  .482

 ERA

T. Hudson  1.81

T. Milone  3.56

J. Nicasio  5.92

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  10.86

N. Eovaldi  7.42

K. Gibson  4.50

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.