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Toronto Blue Jays vs. Oakland Athletics, at Rogers Centre, May 24, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Start Time:
1:07et (local)
Venue:
Rogers Centre
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Rogers Centre
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
67° (based on last ten years)
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
49
On This Date:
44-48
Blue Jays
Manager:
John Gibbons
Game #:
50
On This Date:
14-20
Season Series
Fri, May 23, 2014 TOR  3  OAK  2     

Sat, May 24, 2014 OAK    @TOR  1:07pm
Sun, May 25, 2014 OAK    @TOR  1:07pm
Thu, Jul 03, 2014 TOR    @OAK  9:05pm
Fri, Jul 04, 2014 TOR    @OAK  4:05pm
Sat, Jul 05, 2014 TOR    @OAK 10:05pm
Sun, Jul 06, 2014 TOR    @OAK  4:05pm

                         All times ET
Oakland Athletics
30-18, 1st, 2½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-10   Road:   18-8    ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  21-13   vsLHP:   9-5    1-Run:   8-5 
 vsEast:  3-4    vsCntrl: 9-3    vsWest: 15-11 IL: 3-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 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
 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
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:17-13
Toronto Blue Jays
27-22, 1st, 1½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-11   Road:   16-11   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  17-16   vsLHP:  10-6    1-Run:   4-4 
 vsEast: 10-9    vsCntrl: 6-6    vsWest:  6-5  IL: 5-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 49 Fri, May 23   OAK  W   3-2       27-22  1st  1.5 up
 48 Thu, May 22  @BOS  W   7-2       26-22  1st  1.0 up
 47 Wed, May 21  @BOS  W   6-4       25-22  1st    Tied
 46 Tue, May 20  @BOS  W   7-4       24-22  2nd  0.5 gb
 45 Sun, May 18  @TEX  L   2-6       23-22  3rd  1.0 gb
 44 Sat, May 17  @TEX  W   4-2       23-21  3rd  0.5 gb
 43 Fri, May 16  @TEX  W   2-0       22-21  3rd  1.5 gb
 42 Thu, May 15   CLE  W   4-2       21-21  3rd  1.5 gb
 41 Wed, May 14   CLE  L   4-15      20-21  4th  1.5 gb
 40 Tue, May 13   CLE  W   5-4       20-20  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 23, 2014 TOR  3  OAK  2        W:Liam Hendriks (1-0), L: Scott Kazmir (5-2), S: Casey Janssen (6)

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 OAK  5 @TOR  1        W:Ryan Cook (5-2), L: Casey Janssen (4-1), S: none
Sun, Aug 11, 2013 OAK  6 @TOR  4        W:Ryan Cook (4-2), L: Darren Oliver (3-3), S: Grant Balfour (30)
Sat, Aug 10, 2013 TOR  5  OAK  4        W:Mark Buehrle (8-7), L: Sonny Gray (0-1), S: Casey Janssen (21)
Fri, Aug 09, 2013 OAK 14 @TOR  6        W:Jarrod Parker (8-6), L: Esmil Rogers (3-7), S: none
Wed, Jul 31, 2013 TOR  5 @OAK  2 (10)   W:Casey Janssen (4-0), L: Jesse Chavez (2-3), S: Brett Cecil (1)
Tue, Jul 30, 2013 TOR  5 @OAK  0        W:Mark Buehrle (7-7), L: Dan Straily (6-5), S: none
Mon, Jul 29, 2013 OAK  9  TOR  4        W:A.J. Griffin (10-7), L: Esmil Rogers (3-5), S: none
Sun, Aug 05, 2012 TOR  6 @OAK  5        W:Aaron Laffey (3-2), L: Tommy Milone (9-9), S: Casey Janssen (14)
Sat, Aug 04, 2012 TOR  3 @OAK  1 (11)   W:Jesse Chavez (1-1), L: Jerry Blevins (4-1), S: Darren Oliver (2)
Season Series: 2014 - TOR over 1-0; 2013 - OAK won 4-3; 2012 - OAK won 5-4; All-Time - OAK leads 207-180

SP: Jesse Chavez (30, RHP, 4-1, 2.54)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-1) 56.2 46 19 16 15 57 7 2.54
2013 (2-4) 57.1 50 27 25 20 55 3 3.92
2012 (1-1) 24.2 34 29 27 11 30 7 9.85
Last 7 GS 4-1 43.2 35 16 14 13 44 6 2.89 59
2014-05-18 @CLE W 5.0 6 2 2 3 6 2 109 50
2014-05-12 CHW W 8.0 5 2 2 2 7 2 93 69
2014-05-06 SEA L 5.2 7 4 4 2 3 0 97 40
2014-04-30 @TEX W 7.0 1 0 0 1 8 0 96 82
2014-04-25 @HOU ND 5.0 8 5 4 2 5 0 90 36
2014-04-20 HOU W 6.0 4 1 1 3 6 1 103 63
2014-04-14 @LAA ND 7.0 4 2 1 0 9 1 100 72
Has never faced TOR as starter.

SP: R.A. Dickey (39, RHP, 4-4, 4.20)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-4) 60.0 53 34 28 30 50 4 4.20
2013 (14-13) 224.2 207 113 105 71 177 35 4.21
2012 (20-6) 233.2 192 78 71 54 230 24 2.73
Last 7 GS 3-2 41.1 37 23 17 20 36 2 3.70 51
2014-05-18 @TEX L 6.1 3 4 3 3 3 1 96 53
2014-05-13 CLE W 6.0 4 4 2 2 6 0 102 56
2014-05-08 PHI W 6.1 7 3 2 3 8 0 121 54
2014-05-03 @PIT ND 6.0 5 3 1 4 3 0 105 53
2014-04-27 BOS W 6.1 5 1 1 0 6 0 95 65
2014-04-22 BAL ND 6.0 6 3 3 3 6 1 99 51
2014-04-17 @MIN L 4.1 7 5 5 5 4 0 112 28
Last 5 v.OAK 1-0 33.2 25 9 7 9 24 3 1.87 62
2013-08-11 OAK ND 7.0 6 3 3 2 6 1 109 57
2013-07-31 @OAK ND 6.0 6 2 0 1 3 0 95 58
2011-06-22 OAK ND 8.0 3 1 1 1 9 1 100 80
2008-09-28 OAK W 5.2 6 3 3 1 2 1 99 46
2008-07-10 @OAK ND 7.0 4 0 0 4 4 0 116 69

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Athletics Batters (5.10 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.49 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.Dickey
G/S/vB		 27.Cecil*
G/S/vB		 50.Delabar
G/S/vB		 39.Hendriks
G/S/vB		 44.Janssen
G/S/vB		 62.Loup*
G/S/vB		 29.McGowan
G/S/vB		 59.Rasmussen*
G/S/vB		 58.Redmond
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
88.Blanks G/S/vP 6/1.833 1/no AB ··· 2/.500 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 19/14 .167/.211/.167/.377 .000/.516 .347 19/.377 0/0 0/0
18.Callaspo# G/S/vP 7/.762 18/1.150 2/.000 5/1.800 9/1.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 158/103 .235/.342/.331/.673 .610/.705 .684 71/.528 0/0 3/4
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 6/.500 8/.875 2/2.500 12/.878 2/.000 3/1.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 184/136 .242/.310/.467/.776 .833/.757 .706 89/.773 0/1 7/1
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 21/.261 12/.258 4/.000 9/1.127 7/1.000 4/.000 13/.648 ··· ··· 142/107 .254/.362/.407/.768 .627/.819 .644 71/.689 8/1 3/2
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 6/1.583 2/.000 2/.000 11/.573 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 217/166 .271/.364/.500/.864 .931/.844 1.024 102/.792 1/0 10/8
3.Gentry G/S/vP ··· 4/1.000 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 94/46 .274/.344/.345/.689 .705/.673 .757 56/.630 7/0 0/0
5.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.666 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 126/115 .284/.373/.468/.841 .384/.883 .718 68/.995 1/0 4/1
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 13/.641 8/.393 1/no AB 9/.777 6/.834 3/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 201/153 .251/.355/.386/.741 .788/.724 .792 91/.581 0/0 3/5
37.Moss* G/S/vP 9/.778 2/1.000 ··· 6/1.133 3/1.667 1/.000 5/.000 ··· ··· 187/154 .296/.385/.593/.978 1.110/.949 .979 95/1.111 1/0 11/1
36.Norris G/S/vP ··· 5/1.400 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 124/69 .337/.444/.519/.963 1.029/.908 .984 71/.942 2/0 4/1
1.Punto# G/S/vP 8/.715 3/1.000 ··· 2/.500 5/.800 1/2.000 4/.250 ··· 2/.000 100/47 .233/.310/.278/.588 .583/.590 .565 50/.563 2/0 0/3
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 3/.333 8/.536 1/.000 8/1.292 3/2.667 3/.666 2/2.500 ··· ··· 162/107 .220/.278/.353/.631 .436/.729 .552 86/.639 1/0 4/2
28.Sogard* G/S/vP 7/.286 2/2.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 118/101 .181/.256/.219/.475 .301/.506 .427 59/.387 4/1 0/0
IP 60.0 20.1 20.0 5.2 7.0 22.1 43.0 0.1 24.0 TOTAL .252/.339/.408/.748 .713/.762 .736 .725 28/3 50/34
ERA-K/9 4.20/7.5 3.98/13.7 3.60/8.1 1.59/4.7 0.00/5.1 3.22/6.9 4.60/5.7 0.00/0.0 3.38/6.4 4.26/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (14-2-1)
 Norris (17-2-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 265/.231 95/.247 83/.186 23/.158 26/.200 92/.184 191/.281 1/.000 102/.315 .261  Gentry
 Cespedes
 Reddick
 Moss
 Blanks
 Crisp
5/23/7/2
37/3/0/2
0/0/43/1
18/0/6/1
1/0/0/0
0/31/0/0
OPS .692 .693 .619 .620 .471 .576 .806 .000 .831 .760
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 138/.660 41/.684 37/.431 13/.930 16/.517 41/.509 111/.863 1/.000 52/1.008 .790
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 127/.726 54/.700 46/.761 10/.200 10/.400 51/.628 80/.729 / 50/.651 .732
Home 162/.665 50/.973 45/.475 23/.620 15/.414 39/.697 81/1.107 / 60/.770
Last 28d days 133/.584 51/.731 50/.729 23/.620 26/.471 47/.685 108/.713 1/.000 32/.971
HR/SB/CS 4/0/0 0/4/0 2/1/0 1/0/0 0/1/0 0/2/1 5/6/2 0/0/0 1/2/1 39/37/9
Usage ·····X·· o·o··X·· o·oo··X· X······· o·Xo··o· X·Xo··o· ·X·X·o·· ···o···· ·····o··
Blue Jays Batters (4.86 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.13 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Chavez
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		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
19.Bautista G/S/vP 1/3.000 ··· 2/1.000 3/.000 12/.717 1/2.000 ··· 220/166 .297/.436/.549/.985 1.404/.842 .893 112/.902 1/1 12/2
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 7/.762 8/.625 ··· 3/.667 219/149 .314/.356/.510/.866 .822/.887 .818 106/.812 4/1 8/0
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 3/.667 ··· 3/1.167 2/.000 12/.349 1/2.000 ··· 212/160 .258/.335/.553/.888 .880/.890 1.007 109/1.086 2/0 13/5
47.Francisco* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 105/81 .286/.371/.615/.987 .352/1.184 1.124 77/.948 0/1 8/4
8.Gose* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.833 ··· ··· 32/20 .304/.484/.435/.919 1.055/.808 .500 27/.938 2/1 0/0
31.Kratz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/19 .220/.238/.439/.677 .897/.421 .500 32/.669 0/0 3/0
13.Lawrie G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 11/.473 1/.000 ··· 174/128 .224/.276/.398/.673 .679/.671 .879 75/.832 0/0 7/2
26.Lind* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 18/.801 1/.000 ··· 83/67 .319/.410/.528/.937 .259/1.101 .798 40/.903 0/0 2/1
30.Navarro# G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 1/3.000 1/2.000 5/.400 1/2.000 2/.500 148/100 .259/.304/.319/.623 .477/.693 .729 61/.466 1/0 1/2
11.Pillar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 21/8 .286/.286/.381/.667 1.077/.000 .300 21/.667 0/1 0/0
7.Reyes# G/S/vP 5/.400 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 146/96 .229/.301/.405/.706 .626/.745 .807 112/.746 7/1 3/3
22.Thole* G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 52/36 .362/.423/.404/.827 .838/.823 .995 32/.629 0/3 0/0
18.Tolleson G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 44/14 .275/.341/.550/.891 1.022/.558 1.178 44/.891 1/0 1/1
IP 56.2 19.1 23.0 24.0 19.0 29.2 4.1 TOTAL .256/.327/.443/.770 .752/.777 .798 .810 22/9 68/25
ERA-K/9 2.54/9.0 2.33/9.3 3.13/12.5 2.63/7.1 6.63/7.6 2.43/4.5 0.00/6.3 2.88/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kratz (4-2-0)
 Navarro (27-5-3)
 Thole (6-2-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 231/.216 72/.125 89/.209 97/.239 95/.321 118/.236 16/.133 .217  Cabrera
 Bautista
 Gose
 Pillar
 Tolleson
46/1/0/4
0/7/45/3
2/9/0/1
4/5/0/0
0/0/3/0
OPS .622 .333 .530 .640 .780 .571 .321 .609
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 140/.705 30/.387 35/.412 46/.645 59/.824 53/.692 6/.167 .665
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 91/.497 42/.295 54/.606 51/.636 36/.711 65/.473 10/.400 .564
Road 124/.602 35/.300 45/.766 54/.599 48/.532 78/.610 12/.258
Last 28d days 104/.631 37/.458 38/.270 44/.782 42/.766 65/.536 16/.321
HR/SB/CS 7/1/1 0/0/0 2/3/1 2/4/0 0/6/0 1/1/1 0/0/0 37/31/4
Usage ·····X·· ·oo··XX· ··XX··o· ·ooo··X· o····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

COL  5.29

TEX  4.00

SDP  3.14

 RA/G

OAK  3.13

TBR  4.27

ARI  5.20

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .377

M. Kemp  .265

C. Santana  .156

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .479

Y. Escobar  .332

J. Gyorko  .219

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .721

C. Owings  .408

B. Miller  .255

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.200

S. Perez  .738

B. Miller  .483

 ERA

J. Samardzija  1.46

Y. Gallardo  3.51

K. Correia  6.52

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

R. Erlin  7.36

C. Young  3.35

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.