Tonight's Pitching Matchup: Some Good News For Javy Vazquez

Since the man can use some good news before his start tonight in Oakland, I ran Javier Vazquez's numbers vs. the current Athletics hitters (including postseason) on Baseball-Reference. Here were the results:

	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SH	SF	IBB	HBP
Travis Buck	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Rajai Davis	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ryan Sweeney	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Kurt Suzuki	10	9	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	.111	.200	.111	.311	0	0	0	1
Gabe Gross	8	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.000	.375	.000	.375	0	0	0	0
Mark Ellis	17	16	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	.188	.235	.188	.423	0	0	0	0
Kevin Kouzmanoff	6	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.333	.500	0	0	0	0
Eric Chavez	12	10	1	0	0	1	3	2	2	.100	.250	.400	.650	0	0	0	0
Jack Cust	9	8	1	0	0	1	2	1	2	.125	.222	.500	.722	0	0	0	0
Coco Crisp	17	16	5	0	0	1	3	1	3	.313	.353	.500	.853	0	0	0	0
Daric Barton	6	5	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	.400	.500	.400	.900	0	0	0	0
Jake Fox	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Eric Patterson	7	5	1	0	0	1	2	2	1	.200	.429	.800	1.229	0	0	0	0
Cliff Pennington	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Total	105	93	18	2	0	4	12	11	17	.194	.286	.344	.630	0	0	0	1

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Generated 4/20/2010.

As you can see, only Coco Crisp has had sustained success against Vazquez and he's on the disabled list. Of course, these are all small sample sizes, but Vazquez has look pretty good against tonight's foe in the past. Let's hope the success can continue tonight.

On the other side, no Yankee has faced Gio Gonzalez more than 5 times and most have only seen him three times. So there's really not sample size there. But you can check out the B-R breakdown.