TEX @ DET, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Game Preview

Texas Rangers, 68-74, 4th, 15½ GB, 12½ GB in WC	SP: Brandon McCarthy (23, RHP, 5-8, 4.79) 2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (5-8) 94 100 57 50 44 54 8 4.79 2006 (4-7) 84.2 77 44 44 33 69 17 4.68 2005 (3-2) 67 62 30 30 17 48 13 4.03 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 1-3 40 40 18 13 16 22 3 2.93 51 2007-08-10 TBD ND 4.2 6 3 0 3 3 0 102 46 2007-08-05 TOR L 6 6 2 2 2 4 0 104 54 2007-07-31 CLE W 6.2 4 1 1 3 1 1 90 60 2007-07-25 SEA ND 5 8 3 3 1 3 0 100 41 2007-07-20 CLE L 5.2 6 3 3 3 4 1 100 46 2007-07-15 LAA ND 6 6 4 3 2 4 0 95 48 2007-07-07 BAL L 6 4 2 1 2 3 1 97 59 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.DET 0-1 12.2 14 6 6 0 9 3 4.26 52 2005-09-27 DET L 6.1 8 3 3 0 4 2 83 49 2005-06-29 DET ND 6.1 6 3 3 0 5 1 83 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 42-32 Road: 26-42 ExtrInn: 5-8 vsRHP: 48-50 vsLHP: 20-24 1-Run: 24-16 vsEast: 18-23 vsCntrl:16-20 vsWest: 23-24 IL:11-7 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 142 Sun, Sep 9 OAK W 12-9 68-74 3rd 15.5 gb 141 Sat, Sep 8 OAK W 7-3 67-74 4th 16.5 gb 140 Fri, Sep 7 OAK W 5-3 66-74 4th 17.5 gb 139 Wed, Sep 5 KCR W 3-2 65-74 4th 17.0 gb 138 Tue, Sep 4 KCR W 9-8 64-74 4th 18.0 gb 137 Mon, Sep 3 KCR L 1-8 63-74 4th 18.0 gb 136 Sun, Sep 2 @LAA W 8-7 63-73 4th 17.0 gb 135 Sat, Sep 1 @LAA W 7-6 62-73 4th 18.0 gb 134 Fri, Aug 31 @LAA L 6-7 (10) 61-73 4th 19.0 gb 133 Thu, Aug 30 CHW W 5-1 61-72 4th 18.0 gb Last 10: 8-2 Last 20:14-6 Last 30:20-10
Detroit Tigers, 78-66, 2nd, 6 GB, 3½ GB in WC	SP: Jair Jurrjens (21, RHP, 1-1, 3.60) 2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (1-1) 15 8 6 6 6 6 3 3.60 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 1-1 15 8 6 6 6 6 3 3.60 55 2007-08-26 NYY ND 1.1 2 1 1 0 2 1 23 48 2007-08-21 CLE W 6.2 1 1 1 4 1 1 78 65 2007-08-15 CLE L 7 5 4 4 2 3 1 104 52 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.TEX Has never faced TEX.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 39-33 Road: 39-33 ExtrInn: 8-9 vsRHP: 53-52 vsLHP: 25-14 1-Run: 25-17 vsEast: 20-15 vsCntrl:28-29 vsWest: 16-18 IL:14-4 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/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 142 Sat, Sep 8 SEA W 12-6 77-65 2nd 5.0 gb 141 Fri, Sep 7 SEA W 6-1 76-65 2nd 5.0 gb 140 Thu, Sep 6 CHW W 3-2 75-65 2nd 6.0 gb 139 Wed, Sep 5 CHW W 2-1 (11) 74-65 2nd 7.0 gb 138 Tue, Sep 4 CHW L 1-3 73-65 2nd 7.0 gb 137 Sun, Sep 2 @OAK L 7-8 (10) 73-64 2nd 5.5 gb 136 Sat, Sep 1 @OAK W 6-1 73-63 2nd 5.5 gb 135 Fri, Aug 31 @OAK L 4-5 (10) 72-63 2nd 5.5 gb Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:11-9 Last 30:15-15
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Thu, Jun 28, 2007 DET 5 TEX 2 W:Kenny Rogers (2-0), L: Kevin Millwood (4-7), S: Todd Jones (19) Tue, Jun 26, 2007 TEX 9 @DET 6 W:Akinori Otsuka (2-1), L: Todd Jones (1-4), S: Eric Gagne (8) Mon, Jun 25, 2007 TEX 8 @DET 3 W:Kameron Loe (4-6), L: Jeremy Bonderman (8-1), S: none Thu, Jun 07, 2007 DET 11 @TEX 4 W:Mike Maroth (4-2), L: Kameron Loe (1-6), S: none Wed, Jun 06, 2007 DET 10 @TEX 0 W:Justin Verlander (6-2), L: Kevin Millwood (2-5), S: none Tue, Jun 05, 2007 TEX 7 DET 4 W:Willie Eyre (2-2), L: Nate Robertson (4-6), S: Eric Gagne (5) Wed, Sep 13, 2006 TEX 11 @DET 3 W:Kevin Millwood (15-10), L: Justin Verlander (16-8), S: none Tue, Sep 12, 2006 DET 3 TEX 2 W:Fernando Rodney (7-3), L: Ron Mahay (1-3), S: none Sun, Aug 20, 2006 TEX 7 @DET 6 W:Joaquin Benoit (1-1), L: Jason Grilli (1-2), S: Akinori Otsuka (26) Sat, Aug 19, 2006 TEX 3 @DET 1 W:Robinson Tejeda (2-3), L: Nate Robertson (11-9), S: Akinori Otsuka (25) Season Series: 2007 - Tied 3-3; 2006 - Tied 5-5; 2005 - DET won 4-2; All-Time - DET leads 320-273

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 4.62

WSN 3.97

RA/G

BOS 3.99

NYY 4.79

TBD 5.83

M. Ordonez .359

E. Byrnes .293

J. LaRue .141

OBP

B. Bonds .483

J. Varitek .364

J. LaRue .236

SLG

A. Rodriguez .672

T. Buck .474

N. Punto .255

OPS

A. Rodriguez 1.096

G. Anderson .833

J. LaRue .505

ERA

J. Peavy 2.43

R. Hill 4.02

A. Eaton 6.28

K/9IP

E. Bedard 10.93

J. Guthrie 6.34

S. Trachsel 2.91

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Texas Rangers Batters (5.02 RS/G) vs. Detroit Tigers Pitchers (5.04 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS G/S/vB 40.Bazardo
G/S/vB 34.Byrdak*
G/S/vB 41.Capellan
G/S/vB 52.Durbin
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 Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

9.Blalock* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.334 ··· ··· 4/.250 6/.900 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/.000 182/134 .295/.346/.530/.876 .827/.892 .758 24/1.189 3/1 7/6

19.Botts# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 124/86 .231/.323/.333/.656 .836/.574 .623 78/.651 1/0 1/0

22.Byrd G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/4.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 379/274 .310/.359/.455/.814 .800/.819 .725 101/.752 4/3 7/3

27.Catalanotto* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 5/.650 ··· 7/.453 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 324/308 .277/.355/.479/.834 .657/.841 .653 61/1.122 2/0 10/0

17.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 292/194 .220/.279/.358/.638 .586/.664 .607 81/.669 1/3 7/4

4.Guzman# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

3.Hairston G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 5/.600 2/.000 5/.650 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 180/95 .194/.254/.297/.551 .573/.530 .603 7/.452 5/1 3/3

5.Kinsler G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 4/.000 2/.000 3/1.167 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 479/356 .274/.358/.472/.830 1.024/.762 .737 112/1.006 19/2 19/14

15.Laird G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 414/299 .220/.276/.337/.612 .630/.606 .610 60/.508 6/2 8/11

28.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 55/42 .365/.400/.596/.996 1.462/.844 1.361 46/.835 0/0 1/1

16.Quiroz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 0/ /// / 0/ 0/0 0/0

25.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 278/161 .264/.306/.425/.731 .634/.802 .736 80/.865 0/0 10/9

21.Sosa G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 1/2.000 4/.917 2/.000 21/.929 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 426/296 .253/.310/.468/.778 1.028/.673 .829 45/.975 0/0 19/0

12.Vazquez* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 5/.800 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 310/226 .242/.313/.383/.696 .492/.772 .763 71/.718 1/0 7/5

6.Wilkerson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/5.000 3/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 7/.619 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 354/256 .239/.316/.490/.807 .882/.777 .710 65/.862 3/1 20/4

10.Young G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/1.350 1/2.000 1/2.000 10/2.075 6/1.500 3/.000 ··· 6/1.167 1/.000 1/.000 615/458 .309/.363/.410/.772 .819/.757 .733 104/.767 12/2 7/15

IP 15.0 9.0 36.2 23.1 124.0 73.0 55.1 48.1 0.1 43.2 41.2 27.0 TOTAL .263/.327/.427/.754 .759/.752 .724 79/20 156/105

ERA-K/9

3.60/3.6

3.00/7.0

3.68/10.3

4.24/7.0

4.57/4.8

5.05/6.8

4.55/4.6

2.98/5.8

27.00/0.0

4.53/9.3

2.59/6.9

4.33/7.3

4.68/6.5

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Laird (52-33-9)
Quiroz (0-0-0)
Saltalamacchia (28-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 56/.163 38/.200 167/.250 103/.258 541/.264 324/.266 241/.275 206/.270 2/.500 192/.237 172/.232 117/.202 .270 Byrd
Cruz
Hairston
Wilkerson
Murphy
Catalanotto
Botts
Sosa
Laird 16/49/36/8
16/0/67/5
21/22/6/3
36/1/18/2
22/4/9/2
62/0/0/2
12/0/0/1
0/0/16/1
1/0/0/0

OPS .676 .608 .754 .750 .764 .732 .720 .692 2.500 .711 .633 .613 .769

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 36/.733 14/1.000 65/.788 30/.828 265/.772 111/.719 135/.710 80/.544 2/2.500 88/.710 91/.562 42/.986 .758

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 20/.571 24/.357 102/.731 73/.719 276/.756 213/.736 106/.732 126/.787 / 104/.711 81/.715 75/.410 .777

Home 29/.601 24/.348 79/.796 70/.792 231/.847 173/.911 115/.665 100/.668 2/2.500 111/.732 90/.477 73/.501 .773

Last 28d days 56/.676 8/.393 36/.587 10/1.000 68/.732 56/.357 33/.924 73/.583 1/5.000 48/.605 32/.480 40/.525

HR/SB/CS 3/2/0 1/0/0 3/2/1 4/3/0 19/5/2 5/1/2 3/1/0 2/3/4 1/0/0 5/6/1 1/1/1 2/3/0 152/70/27

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

Detroit Tigers Batters (5.53 RS/G) vs. Texas Rangers Pitchers (5.20 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS G/S/vB 53.Benoit
G/S/vB 39.Feldman
G/S/vB 50.Francisco
G/S/vB 58.Littleton
G/S/vB 47.Murray*
G/S/vB 48.Rheinecker*
G/S/vB 35.White*
G/S/vB 36.Wilson*
G/S/vB 29.Wood
G/S/vB 45.Wright
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

21.Casey* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 4/1.750 2/.500 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.500 28/.801 461/396 .286/.345/.381/.726 .839/.708 .737 70/.633 2/2 3/2

24.Clevlen G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/0

28.Granderson* G/S/vP 7/.143 2/.000 2/3.500 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.000 ··· 614/487 .305/.361/.562/.923 .481/1.037 .864 116/1.016 20/1 21/5

9.Guillen# G/S/vP 9/.222 20/.800 4/1.250 1/.000 2/5.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 15/.971 ··· 557/437 .296/.357/.505/.862 .921/.853 .897 113/.781 11/7 19/24

24.Hessman G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/23 .184/.256/.342/.598 .461/.735 .653 10/.700 0/0 2/0

20.Infante G/S/vP 5/2.000 7/1.262 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 3/2.000 ··· ··· 12/.334 ··· 169/100 .277/.310/.358/.668 .799/.582 .628 8/1.482 4/1 2/4

15.Inge G/S/vP 8/1.125 10/1.178 4/.250 3/.666 3/.666 ··· 2/3.500 ··· ··· 15/.866 9/.583 518/397 .244/.322/.394/.717 .922/.655 .779 94/.719 8/2 14/16

4.Maybin G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/33 .154/.233/.308/.540 .000/.717 .695 43/.540 3/0 1/0

30.Ordonez G/S/vP 10/.733 16/.938 5/.800 1/no AB 3/.666 ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 10/.875 9/.222 614/477 .359/.431/.594/1.025 1.251/.962 1.108 115/1.023 4/1 26/1

19.Perez* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.667 3/.666 52/47 .396/.442/.563/1.005 .800/1.028 .946 44/1.111 1/1 0/1

14.Polanco G/S/vP 9/.536 2/.000 4/.833 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 8/1.250 31/.900 570/429 .345/.394/.464/.859 .835/.867 .894 96/.879 7/3 8/0

58.Rabelo# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 166/141 .258/.298/.344/.643 .695/.633 .488 37/.507 0/0 0/5

25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 126/75 .302/.344/.483/.827 .778/.858 .746 59/.645 3/0 3/1

7.Rodriguez G/S/vP 9/1.223 10/.900 1/.000 4/.500 3/1.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 12/1.583 6/.900 461/338 .282/.296/.429/.725 .740/.719 .734 74/.772 1/2 11/6

39.Santiago# G/S/vP ··· 3/1.334 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 4/.000 39/33 .257/.316/.371/.687 1.917/.508 .349 39/.687 1/0 0/0

3.Sheffield G/S/vP ··· 13/.322 4/1.833 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 2/no AB ··· 4/.250 6/.833 28/1.955 535/411 .268/.378/.477/.854 .887/.844 .914 53/.401 20/4 24/0

33.Thames G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 3/5.000 ··· 254/174 .241/.276/.477/.753 .908/.680 .799 69/.561 2/1 15/3

IP 94.0 75.0 37.0 56.1 40.1 12.0 44.1 2.2 63.1 42.1 61.0 TOTAL .286/.345/.459/.804 .836/.794 .818 87/28 161/90

ERA-K/9

4.79/5.2

2.64/9.7

6.08/4.4

4.79/7.2

3.57/4.5

5.25/4.5

5.48/6.7

3.38/13.3

2.98/8.7

4.04/4.5

3.84/4.9

4.73/6.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Rabelo (25-9-3)
Rodriguez (45-18-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 422/.272 300/.216 185/.291 259/.259 173/.253 53/.205 209/.298 12/.273 265/.203 191/.301 265/.281 .274 Granderson
Ordonez
Raburn
Sheffield
Thames
Clevlen
Infante
Perez
Maybin
Hessman 2/141/0/10
0/0/128/3
7/10/13/1
7/0/7/1
29/0/9/1
0/0/2/0
1/12/6/0
10/0/3/0
10/3/0/0
1/0/0/0

OPS .776 .608 .847 .767 .733 .684 .865 .879 .603 .858 .802 .777

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 199/.819 127/.516 73/.924 117/.722 66/.656 17/.426 63/.643 5/.650 107/.380 108/.976 108/1.006 .791

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 223/.736 173/.677 112/.799 142/.802 107/.781 36/.817 146/.964 7/1.000 158/.756 83/.711 157/.673 .767

Road 239/.812 131/.680 100/1.085 111/.766 82/.574 33/.562 53/1.068 / 110/.548 74/.886 141/.851 .814

Last 28d days / 47/.472 23/.635 49/.733 56/.586 24/.436 81/.760 12/.879 55/.966 64/.900 56/.649

HR/SB/CS 8/13/5 5/1/1 3/6/2 3/4/2 5/2/1 1/0/0 8/0/0 1/0/0 4/1/0 7/1/1 5/2/4 132/77/40

Usage ·X·o·Xo· ·X·····X ·X·X··X· ·XX··o·X ··X····· ·XXo··oo ·X···o·· ···X··X· ··X····X ·····oX·

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: Brandon McCarthy (23, RHP, 5-8, 4.79)

SP: Jair Jurrjens (21, RHP, 1-1, 3.60)

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