CLE @ LAA, Sunday, September 9, 2007 Game Preview

Cleveland Indians, 82-60, 1st, 5 up	SP: Aaron Laffey (22, LHP, 2-1, 5.93) 2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. ANA Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (2-1) 27.1 32 18 18 6 14 2 5.93 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-1 27.1 32 18 18 6 14 2 5.93 43 2007-09-04 MIN ND 4 6 5 5 1 1 0 67 30 2007-08-30 SEA ND 6.1 7 4 4 0 4 1 82 47 2007-08-25 KCR W 6 8 2 2 1 4 0 93 51 2007-08-09 CHW W 5.2 5 4 4 3 4 1 95 44 2007-08-04 MIN L 5.1 6 3 3 1 1 0 82 44 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.ANA Has never faced ANA.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 44-27 Road: 38-33 ExtrInn: 9-7 vsRHP: 55-42 vsLHP: 27-18 1-Run: 25-21 vsEast: 18-18 vsCntrl:39-21 vsWest: 16-12 IL: 9-9 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 142 Sat, Sep 8 @LAA W 6-1 82-60 1st 5.0 up 141 Fri, Sep 7 @LAA L 2-3 (10) 81-60 1st 5.0 up 140 Thu, Sep 6 @LAA L 3-10 81-59 1st 6.0 up 139 Wed, Sep 5 @MIN W 6-2 81-58 1st 7.0 up 138 Tue, Sep 4 @MIN W 7-5 (11) 80-58 1st 7.0 up 137 Mon, Sep 3 @MIN W 5-0 79-58 1st 6.0 up 136 Sun, Sep 2 CHW L 0-8 78-58 1st 5.5 up 135 Sat, Sep 1 CHW W 7-0 78-57 1st 5.5 up 134 Fri, Aug 31 CHW W 8-5 77-57 1st 5.5 up 133 Thu, Aug 30 SEA W 6-5 76-57 1st 4.5 up Last 10: 7-3 Last 20:14-6 Last 30:19-11
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 84-58, 1st, 9 up	SP: Jered Weaver (24, RHP, 11-6, 3.76) 2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (11-6) 139 152 65 58 42 99 14 3.76 2006 (11-2) 123 94 36 35 33 105 15 2.56 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 4-1 43.2 50 20 19 8 29 3 3.92 51 2007-09-04 OAK W 6 7 2 2 3 5 1 107 52 2007-08-29 SEA W 8 7 2 1 0 5 0 100 67 2007-08-24 TOR W 6 5 0 0 1 5 0 104 66 2007-08-18 BOS L 4.1 8 6 6 1 5 1 84 27 2007-08-12 MIN W 7.1 5 2 2 0 4 0 93 64 2007-08-06 BOS ND 6 6 2 2 2 4 1 107 54 2007-08-01 SEA ND 6 12 6 6 1 1 0 106 24 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CLE 1-0 18 16 8 7 7 16 1 3.50 54 2007-05-09 CLE ND 6 6 2 1 3 5 0 112 56 2006-08-08 CLE ND 5.2 6 4 4 2 3 1 102 42 2006-06-02 CLE W 6.1 4 2 2 2 8 0 99 63
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 49-24 Road: 35-34 ExtrInn: 7-3 vsRHP: 68-41 vsLHP: 16-17 1-Run: 21-16 vsEast: 21-17 vsCntrl:21-18 vsWest: 28-19 IL:14-4 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 142 Sat, Sep 8 CLE L 1-6 84-58 1st 9.0 up 141 Fri, Sep 7 CLE W 3-2 (10) 84-57 1st 9.0 up 140 Thu, Sep 6 CLE W 10-3 83-57 1st 8.0 up 139 Wed, Sep 5 OAK L 2-6 82-57 1st 7.5 up 138 Tue, Sep 4 OAK W 4-3 82-56 1st 7.5 up 137 Mon, Sep 3 OAK W 9-5 81-56 1st 6.5 up 136 Sun, Sep 2 TEX L 7-8 80-56 1st 6.5 up 135 Sat, Sep 1 TEX L 6-7 80-55 1st 6.5 up 134 Fri, Aug 31 TEX W 7-6 (10) 80-54 1st 6.5 up 133 Wed, Aug 29 @SEA W 8-2 79-54 1st 5.0 up Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:13-7 Last 30:18-12
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Sat, Sep 08, 2007 CLE 6 @LAA 1 W:C.C. Sabathia (17-7), L: Ervin Santana (6-13), S: none Fri, Sep 07, 2007 LAA 3 CLE 2 (10) W:Scot Shields (4-5), L: Rafael Betancourt (4-1), S: none Thu, Sep 06, 2007 LAA 10 CLE 3 W:Kelvim Escobar (16-7), L: Paul Byrd (14-6), S: none Thu, May 10, 2007 LAA 8 CLE 0 W:Kelvim Escobar (4-1), L: Jeremy Sowers (0-3), S: none Wed, May 09, 2007 LAA 3 CLE 2 W:Dustin Moseley (3-0), L: Fernando Cabrera (1-2), S: Francisco Rodriguez (11) Tue, May 08, 2007 CLE 5 @LAA 1 W:Cliff Lee (1-0), L: Ervin Santana (2-5), S: none Thu, Apr 12, 2007 CLE 4 LAA 2 W:Aaron Fultz (2-0), L: Scot Shields (0-1), S: Joe Borowski (3) Wed, Apr 11, 2007 LAA 4 @CLE 1 W:Joe Saunders (1-0), L: Jake Westbrook (0-1), S: Francisco Rodriguez (4) Tue, Apr 10, 2007 CLE 7 LAA 6 W:C.C. Sabathia (2-0), L: Ervin Santana (1-1), S: Joe Borowski (2) Thu, Aug 10, 2006 CLE 14 LAA 2 W:Cliff Lee (10-8), L: Ervin Santana (12-6), S: none Season Series: 2007 - LAA leads 5-4; 2006 - LAA won 5-4; 2005 - LAA won 5-3; All-Time - LAA leads 292-272

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 2007 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

NYY 5.90

BAL 4.64

WSN 3.94

RA/G

BOS 4.03

KCR 4.79

TBD 5.89

M. Ordonez .354

B. Giles .293

J. LaRue .141

OBP

B. Bonds .480

A. Rios .365

J. LaRue .236

SLG

A. Rodriguez .669

S. Hatteberg .474

N. Punto .257

OPS

A. Rodriguez 1.093

R. Cano .832

J. LaRue .505

ERA

J. Peavy 2.43

I. Snell 4.00

A. Eaton 6.28

K/9IP

E. Bedard 10.93

G. Meche 6.31

S. Trachsel 2.94

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Cleveland Indians Batters (5.01 RS/G) vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Pitchers (4.49 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 36.Weaver
G/S/vB 49.Bootcheck
G/S/vB 52.Bulger
G/S/vB 59.Gwyn
G/S/vB 58.Moseley
G/S/vB 38.Oliver*
G/S/vB 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB 62.Shields
G/S/vB 33.Speier
G/S/vB 63.Thompson
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

29.Barfield G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 432/314 .245/.273/.326/.599 .563/.612 .600 9/.444 14/3 3/14

1.Blake G/S/vP 6/1.100 1/3.000 ··· ··· 5/.650 3/.666 6/.167 8/.375 4/.000 ··· 597/422 .268/.339/.428/.767 .807/.751 .850 95/.671 3/4 15/14

13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 103/81 .308/.360/.451/.811 .955/.765 .814 96/.815 0/0 2/1

20.Dellucci* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 6/1.666 7/.453 11/.920 6/.000 ··· 196/171 .234/.301/.389/.690 .501/.718 .767 / 2/1 4/0

12.Francisco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 52/48 .271/.308/.542/.849 .750/.858 .651 4/.750 0/2 3/0

25.Garko G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.666 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 470/325 .292/.360/.470/.830 .900/.799 .796 95/.658 0/1 16/8

27.Gomez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 18/.753 3/.000 5/.000 3/.000 ··· 217/127 .313/.344/.398/.742 .694/.777 .723 32/.813 1/2 1/3

38.Gutierrez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 234/145 .267/.325/.490/.815 .906/.757 .619 85/.873 8/1 11/1

48.Hafner* G/S/vP 9/.250 1/3.000 ··· ··· 7/1.000 3/.333 7/1.571 12/1.000 4/1.833 1/.000 583/370 .257/.379/.443/.821 .838/.812 .857 105/.832 1/1 21/0

7.Lofton* G/S/vP 10/.522 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 34/.982 5/.650 8/.250 4/.500 ··· 504/403 .302/.377/.423/.799 .567/.857 .791 89/.867 22/6 7/3

30.Marte G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 53/37 .176/.208/.294/.502 .500/.503 .412 1/.000 0/0 1/4

41.Martinez# G/S/vP 6/.900 1/no AB ··· ··· 4/.500 3/.333 3/1.666 7/1.000 5/1.400 1/.000 578/368 .306/.375/.504/.879 .880/.879 .882 110/.856 0/0 21/4

8.Michaels G/S/vP 6/.500 ··· ··· ··· 3/2.334 3/2.333 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 261/123 .268/.315/.406/.721 .794/.643 .683 25/.541 2/4 7/0

33.Nixon* G/S/vP 6/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 4/1.000 1/2.000 8/.833 7/.429 ··· 341/287 .257/.346/.345/.691 .594/.709 .684 17/.494 0/0 3/3

2.Peralta G/S/vP 6/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/.286 1/.000 4/.000 6/.334 3/.000 ··· 581/433 .272/.336/.426/.762 .780/.756 .669 100/.612 4/3 18/15

11.Rivas G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.000 3/.333 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/

10.Shoppach G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 151/118 .275/.327/.493/.819 1.202/.723 .740 20/.850 0/0 6/2

24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 9/.778 2/.500 ··· ··· 8/1.911 1/.000 3/1.167 2/2.000 4/.500 ··· 662/446 .273/.382/.464/.846 .792/.873 .783 118/.912 30/10 23/2

IP 139.0 71.2 2.1 4.0 86.0 53.1 58.1 68.0 42.2 3.2 TOTAL .269/.343/.427/.770 .790/.760 .748 66/34 154/81

ERA-K/9

3.76/6.4

4.27/6.2

3.86/7.8

4.50/2.2

4.50/4.8

3.88/7.1

3.09/11.7

3.84/8.6

3.16/8.2

7.36/12.2

4.16/7.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Martinez (63-27-6)
Shoppach (20-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 602/.278 302/.257 12/.222 21/.278 357/.274 229/.239 249/.213 282/.218 169/.199 15/.214 .264 Lofton
Sizemore
Michaels
Nixon
Dellucci
Blake
Gutierrez
Francisco 36/82/0/7
0/140/0/4
67/1/25/4
0/0/84/4
51/0/0/3
0/0/7/2
9/6/69/2
12/0/3/0

OPS .737 .716 .639 1.048 .744 .667 .625 .643 .634 .981 .737

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 305/.736 135/.744 6/1.000 10/1.025 158/.621 85/.892 115/.580 136/.706 80/.689 7/.143 .745

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 297/.739 167/.694 6/.333 11/1.064 199/.842 144/.534 134/.662 146/.583 89/.583 8/1.625 .731

Home 304/.702 172/.732 12/.639 21/1.048 180/.824 113/.585 132/.677 142/.675 106/.620 15/.981 .718

Last 28d days 129/.655 76/.765 12/.639 17/1.126 83/.741 49/.521 45/.843 40/.838 48/.821 15/.981

HR/SB/CS 14/15/1 6/5/2 0/0/0 2/0/0 6/5/3 5/3/0 3/9/1 6/2/1 6/2/3 2/0/0 133/93/27

Usage ····X··· X··X··oX ···X·X·X ········ X······X ··X·X·o· ·X··X··· ·Xo···X· ·oo··Xo· o··o·X·X

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Batters (5.15 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (4.46 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 32.Laffey*
G/S/vB 63.Betancourt
G/S/vB 47.Borowski
G/S/vB 46.Fultz*
G/S/vB 44.Koplove
G/S/vB 58.Lara*
G/S/vB 50.Lewis
G/S/vB 40.Mastny
G/S/vB 49.Mujica
G/S/vB 53.Perez*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

16.Anderson* G/S/vP ··· 5/.800 3/1.167 7/.572 ··· 1/5.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 385/292 .296/.335/.501/.836 .891/.819 .903 118/1.065 1/0 15/2

32.Aybar# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 192/148 .239/.286/.278/.564 .659/.537 .654 15/.348 4/4 0/6

48.Budde G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/15 .167/.167/.222/.389 1.000/.267 .625 14/.500 0/0 0/1

18.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 5/.200 5/.400 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 622/488 .307/.347/.411/.757 .884/.723 .716 119/.756 18/4 8/10

9.Figgins# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/no AB 430/339 .339/.399/.444/.842 .894/.829 1.005 48/.998 34/10 3/14

27.Guerrero G/S/vP ··· 5/1.200 12/.333 2/.000 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· 592/472 .326/.404/.545/.948 .956/.946 .981 106/.933 2/3 22/9

13.Haynes* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 33/31 .219/.242/.281/.524 .000/.558 .706 3/.000 1/1 0/0

6.Izturis# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 315/240 .279/.341/.403/.744 .817/.712 .877 99/.738 6/1 5/3

47.Kendrick G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 279/218 .323/.349/.459/.808 .875/.793 .776 75/.954 3/2 5/7

35.Kotchman* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.000 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 444/373 .288/.358/.457/.815 .708/.835 .873 70/.569 2/1 9/2

5.Mathis G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 153/125 .243/.298/.419/.717 .837/.690 .799 83/.895 0/1 4/4

24.Matthews# G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 2/.000 5/.400 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 3/1.167 2/.000 1/no AB 561/424 .258/.323/.429/.751 .565/.813 .821 102/.599 17/4 18/5

22.Morales# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 104/82 .310/.337/.490/.827 .545/.904 .809 56/.884 0/1 3/0

44.Napoli G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 229/169 .253/.346/.459/.805 .805/.805 .835 0/ 5/2 9/7

39.Quinlan G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 173/64 .239/.295/.346/.641 .679/.574 .664 26/.352 3/2 3/2

20.Rivera G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 3/.333 ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 9/1 .111/.111/.111/.222 .250/.000 .222 9/.222 0/0 0/0

77.Willits# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 462/344 .289/.390/.342/.732 .783/.714 .787 78/.580 25/8 0/2

IP 27.1 68.0 55.2 31.0 5.0 1.1 19.2 50.1 13.0 52.2 TOTAL .285/.343/.421/.764 .769/.764 .819 124/47 108/91

ERA-K/9

5.93/4.6

1.59/8.1

5.50/8.1

3.19/6.4

7.20/7.2

13.50/13.8

3.20/9.6

4.47/8.4

8.31/4.8

1.54/9.2

4.18/6.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Budde (0-1-0)
Mathis (32-8-3)
Napoli (43-11-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 115/.308 248/.184 250/.296 133/.226 23/.300 7/.333 87/.273 228/.278 60/.333 206/.184 .270 Matthews
Anderson
Willits
Guerrero
Haynes
Rivera
Morales
Aybar
Quinlan 0/129/0/7
70/0/0/6
64/16/28/5
0/0/109/5
5/6/10/1
0/0/2/0
0/0/3/0
4/0/2/0
15/0/6/0

OPS .820 .498 .778 .673 .891 1.262 .719 .786 .982 .518 .736

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 42/.980 99/.590 126/.729 67/.646 9/.476 2/2.500 34/.415 90/.769 27/.933 80/.345 .742

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 73/.731 149/.438 124/.831 66/.702 14/1.121 5/.650 53/.905 138/.796 33/1.020 126/.623 .732

Road 90/.824 138/.495 136/.797 62/.533 18/.833 7/1.262 36/.536 114/.767 23/1.331 97/.545 .731

Last 28d days 69/.836 57/.529 49/.998 26/.589 5/1.100 7/1.262 34/.748 23/1.078 3/1.667 50/.519

HR/SB/CS 2/0/1 4/4/3 7/7/2 2/1/1 0/2/0 1/0/0 1/0/1 5/4/2 3/1/0 4/2/1 129/83/36

Usage ····X··· ·X··X··· ····X··· ··X····· ······X· ··X····· ··o·X··· ····X·X· ··o····· ·o·X·X··

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.

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SP: Aaron Laffey (22, LHP, 2-1, 5.93)

SP: Jered Weaver (24, RHP, 11-6, 3.76)

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