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ALDS Game 5 Car OAKLAND ATHLETICS Game Information Oakland Athletics Baseball Company 7000 Coliseum Way Oakland, CA 94621 510-638-4900 Public Relations Facsimile 510-562-1633 www.oaklandathletics.com POSTSEASON BESTS OAKLAND ATHLETICS (2-2) VS. DETROIT TIGERS (2-2) MOST POSTSEASON WINS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012 – O.CO COLISEUM – 6:37 P.M. PDT 222 Yankees RHP JARROD PARKER (0-1, 2.84) VS. RHP JUSTIN VERLANDER (1-0, 1.29) 112 Cardinals 80 Athletics TNT – A’S RADIO NETWORK (95.7 FM THE GAME) – EN ESPAÑOL (KIQI 1010 AM) 79 Red Sox 77 Braves ABOUT THE A’s MOST DIVISION SERIES WINS ABOUT THE A’S: Have won each of the last two games after losing the first two games of the series…with a 43 Yankees win tonight, the A’s will advance to the American League Championship Series for the 12th time in Oakland 26 Braves history…only the Yankees, with 14 entering today, have played in more LCS…have won back-to-back 25 Cardinals elimination games in the same series for the second time in Athletics history (1973 World Series vs. the 17 Indians 16 Athletics Mets)…have never won three straight elimination games in one series…had a five-game winning streak in 16 Red Sox elimination games from the 1972 ALCS through the 1973 World Series…the win on Tuesday snapped an Athletics record six-game postseason losing streak…this is the A’s seventh appearance in the ALDS, which is MOST POSTSEASON GAMES tied for fifth most all-time…have won two ALDS, both sweeps (1981 vs. Kansas City, 2006 vs. Minnesota)…lost BY BALLPARK four straight from 2000-03 with each of those series lasting the full five games (2000-01 vs. New York, 2002 vs. 161 Yankee Stadium I Minnesota, 2003 vs. Boston)…have a 16-14 (.533) record in the Division Series and the 16 wins are tied for fifth 68 Fenway Park most all-time. 55 Dodger Stadium 53 Coliseum GO THE DISTANCE: The Athletics are 4-5 in the final game of a postseason series when it goes the full five or 53 Busch Stadium II seven games…that includes 2-4 in Game 5 of a best-of-five series and 2-1 in Game 7 of a best-of-seven MOST DIVISION SERIES series…are 0-4 when the Division Series goes the full five games (2000-03)…the two wins in Game 5 in a best- APPEARANCES of-five series came in the 1972 ALCS (vs. Detroit) and 1973 ALCS (vs. Baltimore)…the three best-of-seven 18 Yankees series to go the distance were all World Series: 1931 (loss to St. Louis), 1972 (win over Cincinnati) and 1973 12 Braves (win over New York). 10 Cardinals 9 Red Sox 2-0 DEFICIT: The A’s are attempting to become just the sixth team in LDS history to come back from a 2-0 7 Athletics deficit to win the series (Giants also trailed 2-0 this year)…the five teams that have come back are: the 1981 7 Indians Dodgers (vs. Houston), the 1995 Mariners (vs. New York), the 1999 Red Sox (vs. Cleveland), the 2001 7 Astros Yankees (vs. Oakland) and the 2003 Red Sox (vs. Oakland)…from 1969-84 when the LCS was a best-of-five 7 Dodgers series, only two teams came back from a 2-0 deficit to win: the 1982 Brewers (vs. California) and the 1984 Padres (vs. Chicago)…the Athletics have never comeback from a 2-0 or 2-1 deficit in any postseason MOST DIVISION TITLES th 18 Yankees series…this is the 10 time the Athletics have been tied 2-2 after the first four games of a postseason series. 16 Braves WALK-OFF WINS: Coco Crisp had the “walk-off” RBI single in the bottom of the ninth last night for the seventh 15 Athletics “walk-off” win in Athletics history…it was the first since Ramon Hernandez had a “walk-off” bunt in Game 1 of 11 four teams tied the 2003 ALDS against Boston…it marked the second time the A’s have erased a two-run deficit in the ninth inning or later of a postseason game…the other time was Game 5 of the 1929 World Series…the A’s led the A’s vs. TIGERS majors with 14 walk-off wins during the regular season, which fell one short of the Oakland record (15, 2004). The A’s lost the season series to THIS AND THAT: A’s pitchers have walked just five batters while striking out 30 this series…A’s starting Detroit, 3-4…the Tigers were one of two American League teams pitchers are 1-1 with a 1.93 ERA (5 er in 23.1 ip) and .244 (21 for 86) opponents batting average…A’s hitters the A’s had a losing record against have struck out 39 times, which is an Oakland record for the Division Series…the most in a postseason series (Kansas City, 4-5)…lost two of that went five games is 42 in the 1974 World Series (vs. Los Angeles)…the most in any postseason series is 62 three in Detroit and split four in the 1973 World Series (7 games vs. New York). games in Oakland…the pitching staff posted a 5.46 ERA against ROOKIES: The A’s are the first team in Major League history to start three different rookie pitchers in a Detroit, which was their highest postseason (credit: Elias)…in 147 postseason games prior to this year, the A’s started just two rookies (Joe mark against an American League Bush, 1913 World Series; Barry Zito, 2000 ALDS)…have used five rookie pitchers total, which ties the most team this year…over the last six rookie pitchers in one postseason (1944 Cardinals)…have used eight rookies overall…the ML record for rookies years, the A’s have won two used by one team in a postseason series is nine by Arizona in the 2007 NLCS against Colorado…of the players season series, lost two and split two…are 27-24 against Detroit on the A’s 25-man roster for the Division series, 12 are rookies…that includes eight of the 12 pitchers (Blackley, since 2007…since moving to Cook, Doolittle, Figueroa, Griffin, Milone, Parker, Scribner) in addition to four position players (Carter, Oakland in 1968, the A’s are 239- Céspedes, Donaldson, Norris)…have started four rookies in both Game 1 (Céspedes, Donaldson, Norris, 232 against the Tigers…that Parker) and 4 (Céspedes, Donaldson, Griffin, Norris)…the only other team to start four rookies in a postseason includes 133-103 in Oakland, 104- game is Arizona, who did it three times in 2007: Game 3 of the NLDS against the Cubs and Games 3 and 4 of 127 in Detroit and 2-2 in Las the NLCS against Colorado…the manager of the 2007 Diamondbacks was Bob Melvin. Vegas…are 27-21 in Comerica Park…all-time, the A’s are 909- POSTSEASON PLAY: The A’s have a 80-71 (.530) record all-time in the postseason…the 80 wins are third 985 against the Tigers. most by any team…only the Yankees (222) and Cardinals (112) have more…have lost seven of the previous last eight postseason series, dating back to the 1990 World Series…are 15-26 (.366) over that span with the POSTSEASON only win coming in the 2006 ALDS against Minnesota…this is the A’s sixth postseason appearance over the MEDIA GUIDE last 13 years…have five American League West championships and one Wild Card appearance over that span…now have 15 Division Titles…only the Yankees (18) and Braves (16) have more division The 2012 Oakland A’s Postseason championships….this is the 24th postseason appearance in franchise history, which includes 16 with Oakland Media Guide is available for download at and eight with Philadelphia…only the Yankees (51), Dodgers (26) and Cardinals (25) have more. pressbox.oaklandathletics.com A’s AND TIGERS IN THE POSTSEASON: This is the A’s second consecutive postseason series against the and AthleticsPressbox.com...the guide features players bios, Tigers as Oakland’s last postseason series was the 2006 American League Championship Series…were swept season in review, 2012 statistics by Detroit in four games that year and have split the first four games this year…are batting .215 (55 for 256) and the A’s postseason history. with 20 runs scored in the eight games…none of the players on the A’s Division Series roster this year were with the club in 2006 and only two were in the A’s organization (Figueroa and Pennington)…the A’s and Detroit THIS DATE IN A’s HISTORY also met in the 1972 ALCS, which the A’s won three games to two en route to their first World Championship in Oakland…the A’s are 5-8 (.385) against the Tigers in the postseason…Detroit is one of four teams the A’s have In 1913 Eddie Plank tosses a two- a losing record against in the postseason (0-4 vs. Braves, 4-9 vs. Yankees, 4-7 vs. Reds). hitter as the A’s defeat the Giants 3-1 to clinch the World POSTSEASON EXPERIENCE: Eight of the 25 players on the A’s Division Series roster had postseason Championship…in 1973 Jim experience entering this year (Balfour, Crisp, Drew, Gomes, Kottaras, Neshek, Parker, Smith)…the three Hunter tosses a five-hit shutout in pitchers entered this postseason with a combined 18 games pitched and the five hitters had 41 games game five of the ALCS as the A’s played…Grant Balfour has the most postseason appearances with this being his fourth (2004 with Minnesota, clinch their second straight AL Pennant…it was Hunter’s second 2008 and 2010 with Tampa Bay)…Coco Crisp and Seth Smith are playing in their third postseason while the win in the 1973 ALCS…in 2001 other five had just one year entering 2012…five of the players have gone on to play in the LCS (Balfour, Crisp, Tim Hudson and Jason Drew, Kottaras, Smith) and three have played in the World Series (Balfour, Crisp, Smith).
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