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Game Preview: NYY @ CLE, 6:30pm, Thursday, October 4, 2007 @Jacobs Field

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New York Yankees, 94-68, 2nd, 2 GB, 6 up in WC

SP: Chien-Ming Wang (27, RHP, 19-7, 3.70)

   2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (19-7)           199.1 199  84  82  59 104  9    3.70      
 2006 (19-6)           218   233  92  88  52  76 12    3.63      
 2005 (8-5)            116.1 113  58  52  32  47  9    4.02      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         5-1  48    38  15  13  20  29  2    2.44   58 
 2007-09-26    TBD   W   6     7   2   2   3   6  1      94   53 
 2007-09-21    TOR  ND   7     6   2   1   1   4  0     100   62 
 2007-09-15    BOS   L   5.2   9   5   5   3   3  0      97   31 
 2007-09-09    KCR   W   7     5   3   3   4   4  0      90   55 
 2007-09-04    SEA   W   7.1   5   1   1   3   1  1      86   62 
 2007-08-30    BOS   W   7     1   0   0   4   5  0     103   76 
 2007-08-25    DET   W   8     5   2   1   2   6  0     107   70 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.CLE      2-1  19.1  23   8   8   6   8  2    3.72   48 
 2006-07-03    CLE   L   5.1  11   5   5   2   2  1     106   26 
 2006-06-13    CLE   W   7.1   5   0   0   1   3  0      90   70 
 2005-07-08    CLE   W   6.2   7   3   3   3   3  1     110   48 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   52-29   Road:   42-39   ExtrInn: 4-9 
 vsRHP:  74-49   vsLHP:  20-19   1-Run:  18-21
 vsEast: 39-33   vsCntrl:30-11   vsWest: 15-16 IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 30  @BAL  W  10-4       94-68  2nd  2.0 gb
161 Sat, Sep 29  @BAL  W  11-10      93-68  2nd  3.0 gb
160 Fri, Sep 28  @BAL  L   9-10(10)  92-68  2nd  3.0 gb
159 Thu, Sep 27  @TBD  W   3-1       92-67  2nd  2.0 gb
158 Wed, Sep 26  @TBD  W  12-4       91-67  2nd  3.0 gb
157 Tue, Sep 25  @TBD  L   6-7 (10)  90-67  2nd  3.0 gb
156 Mon, Sep 24   TOR  L   1-4       90-66  2nd  2.0 gb
155 Sun, Sep 23   TOR  W   7-5       90-65  2nd  1.5 gb
154 Sat, Sep 22   TOR  W  12-11(10)  89-65  2nd  2.5 gb
153 Fri, Sep 21   TOR  L   4-5 (14)  88-65  2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:21-9 
Cleveland Indians, 96-66, 1st, 8 up

SP: C.C. Sabathia (26, LHP, 19-7, 3.21)

   2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (19-7)           241   238  94  86  37 209 20    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         5-1  52    43  14  14  10  41  1    2.42   63 
 2007-09-28    KCR   W   7     8   3   3   1   4  1      96   52 
 2007-09-19    DET   W   7     5   2   2   1   7  0     109   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 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.NYY      0-5  32    29  23  21  18  18  6    5.91   45 
 2004-09-01    NYY   L   6     5   3   3   4   3  2     109   49 
 2003-07-19    NYY   L   6     6   6   6   1   5  2      99   40 
 2003-07-09    NYY   L   7     5   4   2   6   6  0     120   55 
 2002-07-11    NYY   L   7     6   4   4   5   1  1     114   45 
 2002-07-03    NYY   L   6     7   6   6   2   3  1      90   35 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   52-29   Road:   44-37   ExtrInn:11-8 
 vsRHP:  64-47   vsLHP:  32-19   1-Run:  29-24
 vsEast: 18-18   vsCntrl:48-24   vsWest: 21-15 IL: 9-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 30  @KCR  W   4-2       96-66  1st  8.0 up
161 Sat, Sep 29  @KCR  L   3-4       95-66  1st  8.0 up
160 Fri, Sep 28  @KCR  W   5-3       95-65  1st  8.0 up
159 Thu, Sep 27  @SEA  L   2-4       94-65  1st  7.0 up
158 Wed, Sep 26  @SEA  L   2-3 (10)  94-64  1st  7.5 up
157 Wed, Sep 26   SEA  W  12-4       94-63  1st  7.5 up
156 Tue, Sep 25  @SEA  W   4-3 (12)  93-63  1st  8.0 up
155 Sun, Sep 23   OAK  W   6-2       92-63  1st  7.5 up
154 Sat, Sep 22   OAK  L   3-9       91-63  1st  7.5 up
153 Fri, Sep 21   OAK  W   4-3       91-62  1st  7.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:21-9 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Aug 12, 2007 NYY  5 @CLE  3    W:Andy Pettitte , L: Jake Westbrook , S: Mariano Rivera 
Sat, Aug 11, 2007 NYY 11 @CLE  2    W:Mike Mussina , L: Paul Byrd , S: none
Fri, Aug 10, 2007 NYY  6 @CLE  1    W:Philip Hughes , L: Fausto Carmona , S: none
Thu, Apr 19, 2007 NYY  8  CLE  6    W:Sean Henn , L: Joe Borowski , S: none
Wed, Apr 18, 2007 NYY  9  CLE  2    W:Kei Igawa , L: Jeremy Sowers , S: none
Tue, Apr 17, 2007 NYY 10  CLE  3    W:Chase Wright , L: Jake Westbrook , S: none

Thu, Jul 06, 2006 NYY 10 @CLE  4    W:Randy Johnson (10-7), L: Cliff Lee (8-6), S: none
Wed, Jul 05, 2006 NYY 11 @CLE  3    W:Mike Mussina (10-3), L: Paul Byrd (6-6), S: none
Tue, Jul 04, 2006 CLE 19  NYY  1    W:Jake Westbrook (7-4), L: Shawn Chacon (4-3), S: none
Mon, Jul 03, 2006 CLE  5  NYY  2    W:Jeremy Sowers (1-1), L: Chien-Ming Wang (8-4), S: Bob Wickman (13)
Season Series: 2007 - NYY leads 6-0; 2006 - NYY won 4-3; 2005 - NYY won 4-3; All-Time - NYY leads 1077-857

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.
Post - PA and OPS in the current postseason.
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  5.98

BAL  4.67

WSN  4.15

RA/G

BOS  4.06

KCR  4.80

TBD  5.83

BA

M. Ordonez  .363

J. Francoeur  .293

J. LaRue  .148

OBP

B. Bonds  .480

W. Taveras  .367

J. LaRue  .240

SLG

C. Ross  .653

T. Tulowitzki  .479

A. Gonzalez  .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez  1.067

T. Hunter  .839

J. LaRue  .512

ERA

J. Peavy  2.54

A. Pettitte  4.05

S. Olsen  5.81

K/9IP

E. Bedard  10.93

G. Meche  6.50

A. Cook  3.31

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New York Yankees Batters (5.98 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (4.35 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
32.Laffey*
G/S/vB
50.Lewis
G/S/vB
40.Mastny
G/S/vB
53.Perez*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdSB/CSHR/E
53.Abreu* G/S/vP 4/.833 2/1.000 5/.933 9/1.587 ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 699/532 .283/.369/.445/.814 .678/.857 .725 25/8 16/
14.Betemit# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 284/233 .229/.333/.454/.787 .670/.815 .657 0/0 14/
28.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 4/1.500 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 612/442 .273/.327/.391/.718 .641/.732 .746 13/5 8/
24.Cano* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 669/458 .306/.353/.488/.841 .864/.831 .816 4/5 19/
18.Damon* G/S/vP 15/.481 4/1.500 4/.500 8/.946 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 605/448 .270/.351/.396/.747 .705/.762 .750 27/3 12/
17.Duncan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 83/45 .257/.329/.554/.883 .984/.801 .669 0/0 7/
25.Giambi* G/S/vP 15/.515 3/.000 3/2.667 8/1.042 ··· ··· 2/.500 2/.000 303/227 .236/.356/.433/.790 .782/.789 .806 1/0 14/
2.Jeter G/S/vP 24/1.219 6/.666 3/3.500 5/1.350 ··· ··· 3/.666 1/2.000 714/550 .322/.388/.452/.840 .876/.830 .835 15/8 12/
55.Matsui* G/S/vP 10/.100 1/.000 3/.666 8/.393 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 634/443 .285/.367/.488/.855 .814/.872 .821 4/2 25/
11.Mientkiewicz* G/S/vP 26/.619 5/.200 ··· 5/.650 ··· ··· ··· ··· 192/159 .277/.349/.440/.789 .613/.822 .587 0/0 5/
26.Molina G/S/vP 8/.000 4/.000 ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 202/151 .257/.274/.340/.614 .853/.530 .572 2/1 1/
20.Posada# G/S/vP 18/1.213 1/.000 5/2.300 6/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 589/421 .338/.426/.543/.970 .942/.981 1.007 2/0 20/
13.Rodriguez G/S/vP 19/1.062 3/.000 4/1.750 5/.933 ··· ··· 4/1.250 2/.000 708/532 .314/.422/.645/1.067 .961/1.099 1.101 24/4 54/
64.Sardinha* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 12/10 .333/.417/.333/.750 1.000/.686 .830 0/0 0/
IP 241.0 79.1 65.2 37.0 49.1 29.1 57.2 60.2 TOTAL .290/.366/.463/.829 .789/.844 .805 123/40 201/88
ERA-K/9 3.21/7.8 1.47/9.1 5.07/7.9 2.92/6.8 4.56/4.6 2.15/10.4 4.68/8.1 1.78/9.2 4.05/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Molina (31-13-4)
 Posada (102-32-13)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 975/.259 289/.183 292/.289 158/.228 207/.287 125/.234 262/.283 236/.187 .268  Cabrera
 Abreu
 Matsui
 Damon
 Duncan
 Betemit
 Sardinha
18/131/5/16
0/0/157/6
112/0/0/6
32/48/1/3
4/0/8/2
1/0/1/0
1/0/4/0
OPS .684 .485 .768 .662 .728 .616 .809 .531 .729
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 213/.545 113/.617 152/.742 79/.629 68/.869 47/.548 103/.861 92/.450 .738
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 762/.723 176/.400 140/.798 79/.695 139/.661 78/.656 159/.777 144/.580 .723
Home 550/.648 136/.480 133/.698 78/.768 53/.761 65/.738 132/.847 120/.561 .732
HR/SB/CS 20/10/10 4/4/4 9/9/2 2/1/2 2/1/3 1/0/1 6/4/2 5/2/1 146/93/46
Usage ·····X·· ·····o·X ···o·X·X ···X···o ···X···· ····o··X ···o···X ····X···
Cleveland Indians Batters (5.01 RS/G) vs. New York Yankees Pitchers (4.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Wang
G/S/vB
62.Chamberlain
G/S/vB
48.Farnsworth
G/S/vB
60.Ohlendorf
G/S/vB
42.Rivera
G/S/vB
41.Veras
G/S/vB
52.Vizcaino
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmSB/CSHR/E
29.Barfield G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 444/323 .243/.270/.324/.594 .549/.610 .598 14/5 3/
1.Blake G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 5/.700 ··· 7/1.000 662/473 .270/.339/.437/.776 .827/.757 .714 4/5 18/
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 186/136 .283/.354/.421/.775 .950/.702 .710 0/0 3/
25.Garko G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 541/378 .289/.359/.483/.842 .914/.812 .869 0/1 21/
27.Gomez G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 12/.666 ··· 1/.000 240/145 .297/.325/.374/.699 .678/.712 .769 1/2 1/
38.Gutierrez G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 301/198 .266/.318/.472/.790 .920/.722 .974 8/3 13/
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 9/.611 ··· 1/no AB ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/no AB 661/420 .266/.385/.451/.837 .837/.836 .791 1/1 24/
7.Lofton* G/S/vP 4/.833 1/.000 3/2.000 ··· 13/.160 ··· 6/.750 559/450 .296/.367/.414/.781 .545/.838 .800 23/7 7/
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 9/.555 ··· 3/.333 ··· 7/.572 ··· 6/2.600 645/414 .301/.374/.505/.879 .825/.908 .865 0/0 25/
8.Michaels G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/2.500 295/139 .270/.324/.397/.721 .800/.636 .779 3/4 7/
33.Nixon* G/S/vP 17/.448 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 28/.416 ··· 2/.000 354/298 .251/.342/.336/.677 .571/.697 .700 0/0 3/
2.Peralta G/S/vP 6/.833 ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/.400 ··· 3/.000 647/482 .270/.341/.430/.771 .820/.754 .881 4/4 21/
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 177/136 .261/.310/.472/.782 1.126/.687 .823 0/0 7/
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 9/1.111 1/.000 4/1.250 ··· 4/.000 ··· 5/1.000 748/503 .277/.390/.462/.852 .812/.872 .913 33/10 24/
IP 199.1 24.0 60.0 6.1 71.1 9.1 75.1 TOTAL .268/.343/.428/.771 .798/.760 .800 72/41 178/92
ERA-K/9 3.70/4.7 0.38/12.8 4.80/7.2 2.84/12.9 3.15/9.3 5.79/6.8 4.30/7.4 4.50/6.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martinez (70-33-6)
 Shoppach (23-13-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 823/.265 90/.145 266/.256 26/.208 295/.248 41/.176 335/.235 .268  Lofton
 Sizemore
 Michaels
 Nixon
 Gutierrez
 Blake
50/83/0/8
0/160/0/4
74/1/27/4
0/0/87/4
9/8/88/3
0/0/7/2
OPS .692 .431 .750 .603 .644 .552 .721 .757
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 430/.764 42/.406 132/.824 15/.733 145/.608 17/.584 139/.790 .795
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 393/.613 48/.453 134/.680 11/.384 150/.680 24/.530 196/.672 .730
Road 380/.750 55/.541 138/.772 22/.718 158/.657 20/.476 167/.663 .774
HR/SB/CS 9/14/7 1/1/0 9/9/2 1/0/0 4/2/1 0/2/0 6/5/2 150/136/44
Usage ·······X ···o··Xo ···o·o·· ···X·X·· ·····X·o ····X·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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