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Tampa Bay Rays vs. Oakland Athletics, at Tropicana Field, May 21, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Tropicana Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
43
On This Date:
51-50
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
42
On This Date:
6-9
Season Series

Thu, May 21, 2015 OAK    @TBR  7:10pm
Fri, May 22, 2015 OAK    @TBR  7:10pm
Sat, May 23, 2015 OAK    @TBR  4:10pm
Sun, May 24, 2015 OAK    @TBR  1:10pm
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 TBR    @OAK 10:05pm
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 TBR    @OAK  9:05pm
Sun, Aug 23, 2015 TBR    @OAK  4:05pm

                         All times ET
Oakland Athletics
14-28, 5th, 13½ GB, 8½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-14   Road:    9-14   ExtrInn: 0-6 
 vsRHP:  13-19   vsLHP:   1-9    1-Run:   2-13
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 2-8    vsWest: 11-18 IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 42 Wed, May 20  @HOU  L   1-6       14-28  5th 13.5 gb
 41 Tue, May 19  @HOU  L   4-6       14-27  5th 12.5 gb
 40 Mon, May 18  @HOU  W   2-1       14-26  5th 11.5 gb
 39 Sun, May 17   CHW  L   3-7       13-26  5th 12.5 gb
 38 Sat, May 16   CHW  L   3-4       13-25  5th 11.5 gb
 37 Fri, May 15   CHW  L   6-7       13-24  5th 10.5 gb
 36 Wed, May 13   BOS  L   0-2       13-23  5th  9.0 gb
 35 Tue, May 12   BOS  W   9-2       13-22  5th  8.0 gb
 34 Mon, May 11   BOS  L   4-5 (11)  12-22  5th  9.0 gb
 33 Sun, May 10  @SEA  L   3-4       12-21  5th  8.5 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 5-15   Last 30: 8-22
Tampa Bay Rays
22-19, 1st, Tied / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-11   Road:   10-8    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  18-13   vsLHP:   4-6    1-Run:   5-8 
 vsEast: 16-13   vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest:  2-2  IL: 3-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 41 Wed, May 20  @ATL  L   1-2       22-19  1st    Tied
 40 Tue, May 19  @ATL  W   5-3       22-18  1st    Tied
 39 Sun, May 17  @MIN  W  11-3       21-18  2nd  1.0 gb
 38 Sat, May 16  @MIN  L   4-6       20-18  2nd  2.0 gb
 37 Fri, May 15  @MIN  L   2-3       20-17  2nd  1.0 gb
 36 Thu, May 14   NYY  W   6-1       20-16  2nd  1.0 gb
 35 Wed, May 13   NYY  W   3-2       19-16  2nd  2.0 gb
 34 Tue, May 12   NYY  W   4-2       18-16  2nd  3.0 gb
 33 Mon, May 11   NYY  L   5-11      17-16  2nd  4.0 gb
 32 Sun, May 10   TEX  L   1-2       17-15  2nd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Aug 06, 2014 TBR  7 @OAK  3        W:Jeremy Hellickson (1-1), L: Sonny Gray (12-5), S: none
Tue, Aug 05, 2014 OAK  3  TBR  0        W:Jason Hammel (9-9), L: Drew Smyly (6-10), S: Sean Doolittle (17)
Mon, Aug 04, 2014 OAK  3  TBR  2 (10)   W:Ryan Cook (1-1), L: Grant Balfour (1-4), S: none
Thu, May 22, 2014 TBR  5  OAK  2 (11)   W:Josh Lueke (1-2), L: Dan Otero (4-1), S: none
Wed, May 21, 2014 OAK  3 @TBR  2        W:Tommy Milone (2-3), L: Erik Bedard (2-2), S: Sean Doolittle (4)
Tue, May 20, 2014 OAK  3 @TBR  0        W:Drew Pomeranz (4-1), L: Jake Odorizzi (2-4), S: Sean Doolittle (3)
Sun, Sep 01, 2013 OAK  5  TBR  1        W:A.J. Griffin (12-9), L: Alex Torres (4-1), S: none
Sat, Aug 31, 2013 OAK  2  TBR  1        W:Sonny Gray (2-2), L: Alex Cobb (8-3), S: Grant Balfour (35)
Fri, Aug 30, 2013 OAK  4  TBR  3        W:Ryan Cook (6-3), L: David Price (8-6), S: Grant Balfour (34)
Sun, Apr 21, 2013 TBR  8  OAK  1        W:Roberto Hernandez (1-3), L: Tommy Milone (3-1), S: none
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 - OAK won 4-2; 2013 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - OAK leads 93-57

SP: Jesse Chavez (31, RHP, 1-3, 2.63)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-3) 37.2 30 13 11 12 35 1 2.63
2014 (8-8) 146.0 142 64 56 49 136 17 3.45
2013 (2-4) 57.1 50 27 25 20 55 3 3.92
Last 7 GS 2-4 42.0 34 21 19 16 38 4 4.07 53
2015-05-16 CHW ND 6.0 8 2 2 2 3 0 97 49
2015-05-10 @SEA L 6.2 5 4 4 2 7 0 103 53
2015-05-05 @MIN W 7.1 4 1 0 1 7 0 87 74
2015-04-30 LAA L 5.0 7 4 4 3 5 0 95 39
2015-04-23 @LAA L 6.0 1 2 1 3 4 1 90 65
2014-07-28 @HOU L 5.1 5 6 6 3 5 3 91 36
2014-07-23 HOU W 5.2 4 2 2 2 7 0 101 58
Has never faced TBR as starter.

SP: Alex Colome (26, RHP, 2-1, 6.05)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-1) 19.1 24 13 13 2 16 4 6.05
2014 (2-0) 23.2 19 7 7 10 13 1 2.66
2013 (1-1) 16.0 14 8 4 9 12 2 2.25
Last 7 GS 4-1 38.0 36 14 14 8 29 4 3.32 54
2015-05-16 @MIN ND 3.1 6 3 3 1 0 0 60 35
2015-05-11 NYY L 6.0 11 8 8 1 6 4 99 23
2015-05-06 @BOS W 5.0 4 2 2 0 4 0 79 55
2015-05-01 BAL W 5.0 3 0 0 0 6 0 60 67
2014-09-27 @CLE W 6.1 4 0 0 1 6 0 79 70
2014-09-15 NYY ND 6.2 6 0 0 1 4 0 113 65
2014-06-27 @BAL W 5.2 2 1 1 4 3 0 104 60
Has never faced OAK as starter.

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Athletics Batters (4.40 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.51 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Colome
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 43.Frieri
G/S/vB		 54.Geltz
G/S/vB		 47.Gomes
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Burns# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 68/44 .313/.353/.344/.697 .519/.791 .600 68/.697 4/2 0/0
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/2.334 ··· 4/1.500 6/1.417 4/.500 175/137 .270/.320/.393/.713 .963/.648 .726 104/.526 0/0 4/0
20.Canha G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 122/82 .214/.279/.375/.654 .286/.829 .594 59/.615 3/1 5/1
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 6/.167 ··· ··· 8/1.500 4/.250 52/34 .044/.173/.067/.240 .410/.147 .130 52/.240 1/0 0/0
23.Fuld* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 1/4.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 119/114 .200/.280/.305/.584 .200/.600 .516 54/.274 3/0 0/2
3.Gentry G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/2.000 4/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/no AB 43/22 .079/.163/.079/.242 .248/.234 .148 18/.410 1/0 0/2
15.Lawrie G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 6/1.167 ··· 5/.200 2/.000 10/1.200 168/126 .280/.313/.369/.683 .563/.720 .697 97/.753 1/0 2/6
50.Muncy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 33/32 .286/.364/.607/.971 /.951 1.563 33/.971 0/0 2/1
19.Phegley G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 46/20 .244/.304/.341/.646 .885/.318 .367 29/.685 0/0 1/0
22.Reddick* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.500 5/.933 ··· 4/.000 7/.715 7/.429 147/112 .305/.381/.527/.908 .447/1.055 .740 105/.956 2/1 6/2
10.Semien G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· 3/1.167 177/135 .309/.352/.497/.849 .885/.837 .845 108/.910 7/0 6/16
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.667 4/.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 139/111 .256/.277/.308/.586 .339/.646 .580 94/.577 1/0 0/3
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/5.000 138/112 .307/.413/.605/1.018 .835/1.058 1.072 79/.924 0/0 9/2
IP 19.1 15.0 11.0 18.0 18.0 14.0 17.1 2.0 TOTAL .257/.319/.396/.714 .583/.754 .696 .684 24/4 38/44
ERA-K/9 6.05/7.5 1.20/12.6 1.64/9.8 5.00/8.0 3.00/11.5 1.93/8.4 2.08/6.8 0.00/18.0 3.41/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Phegley (7-3-1)
 Vogt (12-7-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 82/.308 57/.137 46/.220 76/.231 71/.145 58/.222 76/.194 7/.143 .219  Reddick
 Fuld
 Crisp
 Gentry
 Burns
 Canha
0/1/35/4
6/27/2/2
11/0/0/1
10/5/3/1
0/16/0/0
22/0/0/0
OPS .842 .405 .621 .837 .479 .591 .548 .286 .638
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 46/.904 27/.499 25/.408 33/.755 36/.411 29/.806 38/.477 4/.000 .652
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 36/.758 30/.315 21/.899 43/.900 35/.547 29/.385 38/.623 3/.667 .624
Home 47/.906 28/.143 17/.471 38/.556 38/.502 39/.473 42/.538 /
Last 28d days 82/.842 29/.322 31/.499 42/.718 34/.464 45/.692 46/.774 7/.286
HR/SB/CS 4/0/1 0/0/1 1/1/0 5/3/0 1/2/0 1/3/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 35/26/8
Usage ····X··· ·o·····o oo·o···X ···Xo··· X···o··· ·o···o·X ·X··Xo·X ·o·o····
Rays Batters (3.95 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Chavez
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 44.Castro
G/S/vB		 36.Clippard
G/S/vB		 68.Leon
G/S/vB		 49.Mujica
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 33.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Beckham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 90/49 .210/.256/.395/.651 .821/.501 .463 52/.571 2/1 4/1
9.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 44/30 .293/.341/.488/.829 .643/.919 .838 44/.829 0/1 2/0
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 5/1.933 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 4/1.750 4/.500 1/.000 4/1.250 159/125 .209/.264/.338/.602 .508/.629 .635 96/.657 1/1 2/1
7.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· 4/1.417 ··· 4/.250 ··· 7/1.143 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 105/102 .316/.362/.459/.821 .667/.826 .688 70/.770 1/1 3/0
11.Forsythe G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 6/.333 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 154/103 .301/.377/.485/.862 .909/.835 .875 95/.868 1/1 4/2
2.Franklin# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 7/5 .286/.286/.429/.714 2.500/.000 7/.714 0/0 0/0
5.Guyer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 2/.000 ··· ··· 99/46 .274/.367/.417/.784 .774/.795 .839 63/.809 3/1 2/0
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 134/103 .240/.286/.424/.710 .657/.726 .579 89/.614 1/1 3/0
21.Loney* G/S/vP 6/.500 3/.666 ··· 3/.000 ··· 10/1.600 2/1.000 3/2.000 ··· 102/78 .280/.333/.398/.731 .701/.741 .710 99/.740 0/1 2/0
3.Longoria G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 8/.250 3/.666 1/.000 2/2.500 165/130 .273/.358/.427/.784 1.098/.704 .850 103/.816 0/0 4/2
44.Rivera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 118/85 .144/.188/.234/.422 .375/.440 .411 63/.482 0/0 2/2
20.Souza G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 158/120 .232/.329/.406/.735 .895/.688 .729 95/.633 6/3 6/1
46.Wilson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/27 .184/.262/.184/.446 .421/.459 .229 26/.397 0/0 0/0
IP 37.2 11.0 2.0 18.0 1.2 18.1 20.0 8.1 22.2 TOTAL .243/.312/.387/.699 .756/.678 .685 .702 20/14 37/15
ERA-K/9 2.63/8.4 7.36/5.7 4.50/9.0 2.50/7.5 5.40/10.6 3.44/5.9 4.50/5.8 5.40/9.8 2.38/10.7 4.14/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Rivera (13-6-2)
 Wilson (13-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 154/.219 52/.318 12/.500 74/.167 10/.444 72/.273 81/.253 34/.200 86/.205 .240  Kiermaier
 Souza
 DeJesus
 Guyer
 Butler
0/36/2/2
0/0/37/2
15/0/0/1
22/3/5/0
5/0/1/0
OPS .569 1.123 1.511 .545 1.056 .748 .697 .561 .546 .679
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 78/.571 32/1.455 7/1.571 34/.211 3/.667 37/.650 32/.629 17/.423 41/.533 .663
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 76/.565 20/.550 5/1.250 40/.811 7/1.238 35/.852 49/.741 17/.710 45/.556 .692
Road 98/.474 26/1.614 6/.900 26/.157 10/1.056 27/1.050 48/.767 23/.367 38/.380
Last 28d days 104/.626 28/1.310 12/1.511 48/.496 4/1.000 42/.587 46/.741 34/.561 53/.597
HR/SB/CS 1/2/1 4/0/0 1/0/0 2/4/0 0/0/0 3/1/1 2/0/0 0/0/1 2/0/1 34/19/10
Usage ····X··· ·X·ooo·o ·o······ ··oX···X o······· ··X·Xo·· X··XX··· ·X··oo·· ··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 2015 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

TOR  5.12

ATL  4.21

PHI  3.17

 RA/G

STL  3.00

WSN  4.32

COL  5.19

 BA

D. Gordon  .395

N. Walker  .267

C. Utley  .159

 OBP

B. Harper  .472

A. Escobar  .331

E. Gattis  .221

 SLG

B. Harper  .732

P. Sandoval  .416

D. Gregorius  .250

 OPS

B. Harper  1.203

A. Pagan  .742

C. Utley  .513

 ERA

S. Miller  1.33

C. Kluber  3.79

J. Marquis  6.91

 K/9IP

J. Shields  12.21

K. Lohse  7.04

J. Guthrie  3.42

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.