DET @ CLE, Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Game Preview

Detroit Tigers, 83-69, 2nd, 6½ GB, 4½ GB in WC	SP: Nate Robertson (29, LHP, 8-11, 4.93) 2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (8-11) 157 182 90 86 56 106 20 4.93 2006 (13-13) 208.2 206 98 89 67 137 29 3.84 2005 (7-16) 196.2 202 113 98 65 122 28 4.48 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-2 42.1 41 24 23 18 31 6 4.89 48 2007-09-14 MIN W 7 5 2 2 3 5 1 106 61 2007-09-08 SEA ND 4.2 7 5 4 3 3 2 83 32 2007-09-02 OAK ND 6 4 2 2 1 5 0 90 60 2007-08-28 KCR L 4.1 6 6 6 4 2 1 92 25 2007-08-23 CLE ND 8.2 4 0 0 0 3 0 91 79 2007-08-17 NYY L 6 10 5 5 2 7 1 109 37 2007-08-12 OAK W 5.2 5 4 4 5 6 1 105 44 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CLE 1-2 27.2 35 18 16 7 15 5 5.20 44 2007-08-23 CLE ND 8.2 4 0 0 0 3 0 91 79 2007-07-03 CLE ND 5 6 3 3 2 8 0 108 49 2007-05-25 CLE L 5.2 10 5 5 3 2 3 101 28 2006-05-26 CLE W 6 7 3 2 1 2 1 91 49 2006-04-17 CLE L 2.1 8 7 6 1 0 1 49 14
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 41-34 Road: 42-35 ExtrInn: 8-10 vsRHP: 57-55 vsLHP: 26-14 1-Run: 26-18 vsEast: 20-15 vsCntrl:31-31 vsWest: 18-19 IL:14-4 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 152 Tue, Sep 18 @CLE L 4-7 83-69 2nd 6.5 gb 151 Mon, Sep 17 @CLE L 5-6 (11) 83-68 2nd 5.5 gb 150 Sun, Sep 16 @MIN W 6-4 83-67 2nd 4.5 gb 149 Sat, Sep 15 @MIN W 4-3 82-67 2nd 5.5 gb 148 Fri, Sep 14 @MIN W 4-2 81-67 2nd 5.5 gb 147 Wed, Sep 12 TEX W 5-1 80-67 2nd 5.5 gb 146 Tue, Sep 11 TEX W 4-1 79-67 2nd 6.5 gb 145 Tue, Sep 11 TEX L 6-13 78-67 2nd 6.5 gb 144 Mon, Sep 10 TOR W 5-4 78-66 2nd 6.0 gb 143 Sun, Sep 9 SEA L 7-14 77-66 2nd 6.0 gb Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:12-8 Last 30:16-14
Cleveland Indians, 89-62, 1st, 6½ up	SP: C.C. Sabathia (26, LHP, 17-7, 3.21) 2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (17-7) 227 225 89 81 35 198 19 3.21 2006 (12-11) 192.2 182 83 69 44 172 17 3.22 2005 (15-10) 196.2 185 92 88 62 161 19 4.03 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-1 53 42 13 13 9 44 2 2.21 65 2007-09-14 KCR ND 7 7 4 4 2 13 0 115 58 2007-09-08 LAA W 9 5 1 1 1 3 0 103 75 2007-09-03 MIN W 8 6 0 0 1 6 0 100 75 2007-08-29 MIN W 6 7 2 2 2 2 0 109 50 2007-08-24 KCR L 8 5 2 2 2 6 0 119 68 2007-08-19 TBD ND 8 5 2 2 0 6 2 102 70 2007-08-14 DET ND 7 7 2 2 1 8 0 96 62 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.DET 2-2 32.1 39 18 17 6 25 5 4.73 48 2007-08-14 DET ND 7 7 2 2 1 8 0 96 62 2007-07-05 DET L 4 10 7 7 1 3 3 87 16 2007-05-31 DET W 7.1 10 5 5 1 2 1 104 39 2007-05-26 DET W 7 6 3 3 1 6 1 110 58 2006-08-06 DET L 7 6 1 0 2 6 0 110 67
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 48-28 Road: 41-34 ExtrInn:10-7 vsRHP: 60-44 vsLHP: 29-18 1-Run: 27-22 vsEast: 18-18 vsCntrl:45-23 vsWest: 17-12 IL: 9-9 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 151 Tue, Sep 18 DET W 7-4 89-62 1st 6.5 up 150 Mon, Sep 17 DET W 6-5 (11) 88-62 1st 5.5 up 149 Sun, Sep 16 KCR L 3-4 87-62 1st 4.5 up 148 Sat, Sep 15 KCR W 6-0 87-61 1st 5.5 up 147 Fri, Sep 14 KCR W 5-4 86-61 1st 5.5 up 146 Wed, Sep 12 @CHW L 4-7 85-61 1st 5.5 up 145 Tue, Sep 11 @CHW W 8-3 85-60 1st 6.5 up 144 Mon, Sep 10 @CHW W 6-2 84-60 1st 6.0 up 143 Sun, Sep 9 @LAA W 6-2 83-60 1st 6.0 up 142 Sat, Sep 8 @LAA W 6-1 82-60 1st 5.0 up Last 10: 8-2 Last 20:15-5 Last 30:22-8
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Tue, Sep 18, 2007 CLE 7 DET 4 W:Jensen Lewis (1-1), L: Justin Verlander (17-6), S: Joe Borowski (41) Mon, Sep 17, 2007 CLE 6 DET 5 (11) W:Rafael Betancourt (5-1), L: Zach Miner (3-4), S: none Thu, Aug 23, 2007 CLE 3 @DET 1 (10) W:Rafael Perez (1-1), L: Joel Zumaya (1-2), S: Joe Borowski (36) Wed, Aug 22, 2007 CLE 11 @DET 8 W:Paul Byrd (12-5), L: Justin Verlander (13-5), S: Joe Borowski (35) Tue, Aug 21, 2007 DET 2 CLE 1 W:Jair Jurrjens (1-1), L: Fausto Carmona (14-8), S: Todd Jones (32) Wed, Aug 15, 2007 CLE 5 DET 2 W:Fausto Carmona (14-7), L: Jair Jurrjens (0-1), S: Joe Borowski (33) Tue, Aug 14, 2007 DET 6 @CLE 2 (10) W:Fernando Rodney (2-5), L: Joe Borowski (2-5), S: none Thu, Jul 05, 2007 DET 12 CLE 3 W:Justin Verlander (10-3), L: C.C. Sabathia (12-3), S: none Wed, Jul 04, 2007 DET 6 CLE 4 W:Kenny Rogers (3-0), L: Jake Westbrook (1-4), S: Todd Jones (21) Tue, Jul 03, 2007 CLE 5 @DET 4 (11) W:Tom Mastny (6-2), L: Jose Capellan (0-3), S: Joe Borowski (25) Season Series: 2007 - CLE leads 11-6; 2006 - DET won 13-6; 2005 - CLE won 12-6; All-Time - DET leads 1021-997

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

OAK 4.63

WSN 4.09

RA/G

SDP 3.98

WSN 4.78

TBD 5.83

M. Ordonez .356

M. DeRosa .294

J. LaRue .143

OBP

B. Bonds .483

M. Diaz .366

J. LaRue .235

SLG

C. Ross .682

T. Buck .474

P. Bako .255

OPS

C. Ross 1.097

I. Suzuki .834

J. LaRue .502

ERA

J. Peavy 2.39

R. Hill 4.01

A. Eaton 6.36

K/9IP

E. Bedard 10.93

K. Wells 6.49

S. Trachsel 3.04

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Detroit Tigers Batters (5.49 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (4.40 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 52.Sabathia*
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 31.Lee*
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 Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

21.Casey* G/S/vP 14/.819 2/1.500 14/.814 7/.629 1/.000 ··· 15/1.302 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 2/1.000 470/404 .287/.347/.381/.728 .857/.707 .710 58/.769 2/2 3/2

27.Clevlen G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/4 .125/.125/.125/.250 .500/.000 .500 8/.250 0/0 0/0

28.Granderson* G/S/vP 12/.364 6/.334 4/.250 1/3.000 ··· ··· 20/.800 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 5/.200 644/517 .298/.355/.548/.903 .481/1.006 .959 115/1.010 23/1 22/5

9.Guillen# G/S/vP 39/.768 13/.462 5/.400 5/.000 2/3.000 ··· 25/.780 1/.000 2/.000 3/3.167 ··· 589/465 .295/.358/.499/.857 .906/.851 .829 116/.763 11/8 19/24

24.Hessman G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 46/26 .220/.283/.439/.722 .461/.944 .558 13/1.077 0/0 3/0

20.Infante G/S/vP 23/.733 13/.154 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· 21/.979 1/3.000 1/2.000 1/.000 2/1.000 174/104 .268/.301/.348/.648 .786/.559 .695 8/.250 4/1 2/4

15.Inge G/S/vP 47/.307 15/.204 4/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· 27/1.046 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 545/421 .241/.320/.386/.705 .924/.642 .641 98/.702 9/2 14/17

4.Maybin G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 46/35 .167/.239/.310/.549 .000/.734 .454 34/.493 4/0 1/0

30.Ordonez G/S/vP 57/.816 15/.421 5/2.400 2/.000 ··· ··· 34/.974 2/1.000 5/.933 3/.666 1/.000 646/505 .356/.428/.586/1.014 1.239/.954 .933 118/1.022 4/1 27/1

19.Perez* G/S/vP 6/.500 5/.800 1/2.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 75/69 .429/.467/.586/1.052 1.333/1.026 1.106 67/1.127 1/1 0/2

14.Polanco G/S/vP 32/.742 7/1.000 4/1.000 5/1.000 4/.250 ··· 21/.618 2/2.000 3/2.333 1/2.000 3/.000 601/456 .343/.392/.465/.858 .825/.868 .821 124/.892 7/3 9/0

58.Rabelo# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 170/145 .253/.297/.338/.635 .695/.624 .797 33/.321 0/0 0/5

25.Raburn G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 130/75 .300/.341/.475/.816 .756/.858 .867 37/.547 3/0 3/1

7.Rodriguez G/S/vP 36/.603 16/.563 8/.536 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 37/1.053 2/1.500 3/.333 3/3.667 2/1.000 491/365 .276/.290/.418/.708 .746/.695 .681 84/.648 1/2 11/6

39.Santiago# G/S/vP 20/.666 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 60/52 .296/.333/.389/.722 1.333/.639 1.071 60/.722 2/0 0/0

3.Sheffield G/S/vP 15/1.047 4/.000 9/1.381 8/1.625 6/1.500 ··· 14/.629 2/.000 4/2.000 2/.500 2/1.000 565/437 .270/.382/.477/.859 .856/.860 .789 53/.652 22/5 25/0

33.Thames G/S/vP 27/1.016 5/.200 2/1.500 2/3.500 ··· ··· 18/1.167 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 266/183 .242/.278/.476/.754 .875/.699 .695 61/.676 2/1 15/3

IP 227.0 73.0 59.2 33.0 5.0 1.1 93.2 25.0 52.1 13.0 57.1 TOTAL .286/.344/.456/.800 .828/.792 .784 95/30 166/94

ERA-K/9

3.21/7.9

1.48/8.5

5.13/8.0

3.00/6.8

7.20/7.2

13.50/13.8

6.53/6.1

2.52/10.4

4.30/8.4

8.31/4.8

1.41/9.3

4.10/6.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Rabelo (25-10-3)
Rodriguez (46-20-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 920/.260 265/.184 266/.290 140/.217 23/.300 7/.333 431/.290 109/.250 234/.271 60/.333 219/.172 .269 Granderson
Ordonez
Raburn
Sheffield
Perez
Thames
Clevlen
Infante
Maybin
Hessman 2/149/0/10
0/0/135/3
8/10/13/1
7/0/7/1
15/0/4/1
32/0/9/1
5/1/2/0
1/12/6/0
10/4/0/0
1/0/0/0

OPS .687 .493 .758 .657 .891 1.262 .861 .662 .770 .982 .486 .730

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 209/.556 105/.594 134/.725 71/.626 9/.476 2/2.500 111/.970 42/.515 93/.757 27/.933 84/.327 .736

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 711/.726 160/.426 132/.792 69/.689 14/1.121 5/.650 320/.823 67/.750 141/.778 33/1.020 135/.580 .726

Home 523/.657 123/.488 126/.723 73/.776 5/1.100 / 218/.849 64/.751 117/.782 37/.771 112/.481 .733

Last 28d days 148/.549 56/.478 46/.772 30/.596 5/1.100 7/1.262 13/1.288 48/.521 29/.894 3/1.667 49/.295

HR/SB/CS 19/8/10 4/4/4 7/8/2 2/1/2 0/2/0 1/0/0 17/4/1 1/0/1 5/4/2 3/1/0 4/2/1 135/89/42

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

Cleveland Indians Batters (5.05 RS/G) vs. Detroit Tigers Pitchers (5.02 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS

29.Robertson*
G/S/vB

40.Bazardo
G/S/vB

34.Byrdak*
G/S/vB

41.Capellan
G/S/vB

49.Grilli
G/S/vB

59.Jones
G/S/vB

31.Miner
G/S/vB

50.Rapada*
G/S/vB

56.Rodney
G/S/vB

44.Seay*
G/S/vB

54.Zumaya
G/S/vB

PA/vRH

BA/OBP/SLG/OPS

vLH/RH

Last 28d

SB/CS

HR/E

29.Barfield G/S/vP

···

···

···

435/316

.246/.273/.326/.599

.558/.615

.598

8/.750

14/5

3/15

1.Blake G/S/vP

···

···

630/449

.266/.335/.431/.767

.777/.762

.693

100/.714

3/4

17/14

13.Cabrera# G/S/vP

···

···

···

···

145/110

.288/.355/.456/.811

1.020/.736

.751

115/.821

0/0

3/1

20.Dellucci* G/S/vP

···

5/.200

···

5/2.000

7/.858

···

196/171

.234/.301/.389/.690

.501/.718

.608

2/1

4/0

12.Francisco G/S/vP

···

2/.000

···

1/.000

1/2.000

···

55/51

.275/.309/.529/.839

.750/.846

1.131

7/.714

0/2

3/0

25.Garko G/S/vP

···

···

···

504/354

.295/.363/.481/.844

.930/.809

.862

101/.726

0/1

19/8

27.Gomez G/S/vP

···

···

···

222/132

.309/.338/.392/.730

.694/.755

.769

25/.725

1/2

1/3

38.Gutierrez G/S/vP

···

···

···

···

266/173

.271/.323/.500/.823

.939/.759

1.004

101/.841

8/2

13/1

48.Hafner* G/S/vP

···

···

···

619/394

.254/.378/.441/.819

.831/.812

.788

119/.840

1/1

23/0

7.Lofton* G/S/vP

···

···

535/430

.297/.372/.410/.782

.565/.834

.798

95/.820

23/7

7/3

30.Marte G/S/vP

···

···

···

53/37

.176/.208/.294/.502

.500/.503

.713

1/.000

0/0

1/4

41.Martinez# G/S/vP

···

···

612/396

.304/.376/.512/.888

.871/.897

.894

112/.964

0/0

24/5

8.Michaels G/S/vP

···

···

···

273/128

.273/.321/.406/.727

.793/.655

.764

27/.666

3/4

7/1

33.Nixon* G/S/vP

···

···

···

343/289

.255/.344/.342/.686

.594/.704

.696

9/.347

0/0

3/3

2.Peralta G/S/vP

···

···

615/460

.269/.339/.430/.769

.817/.753

.873

105/.718

4/3

20/18

11.Rivas G/S/vP

···

···

···

1/1

.000/.000/.000/.000

/.000

1/.000

0/0

10.Shoppach G/S/vP

···

···

···

···

160/122

.262/.316/.469/.785

1.072/.704

.854

25/.770

0/0

6/3

24.Sizemore* G/S/vP

···

···

705/476

.272/.384/.455/.840

.772/.873

.882

127/.825

33/10

23/2

157.0

16.2

39.0

25.0

77.0

60.1

51.1

1.1

46.2

42.2

31.0

TOTAL

.268/.343/.428/.771

.791/.762

.793

71/38

169/88

ERA-K/9

4.93/6.1

3.24/5.4

3.69/10.2

5.76/7.2

4.79/6.8

4.33/4.8

2.98/5.6

20.25/13.8

4.24/9.4

2.53/7.2

4.65/7.3

4.65/6.5

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Martinez (67-31-6)
Shoppach (22-11-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA

696/.291

69/.206

181/.247

112/.277

340/.260

261/.267

221/.267

9/.42

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SP: Nate Robertson (29, LHP, 8-11, 4.93)

SP: C.C. Sabathia (26, LHP, 17-7, 3.21)

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