BOS @ LAA, Friday, October 3, 2008 Game Preview

Boston Red Sox, 95-67, 2nd, 2 GB, 7½ up in WC	SP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (27, RHP, 18-3, 2.90) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. ANA Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (18-3) 167.2 128 58 54 94 154 12 2.90 2007 (15-12) 204.2 191 100 100 80 201 25 4.40 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-1 41 31 16 15 17 45 4 3.29 58 2008-09-28 NYY L 4 4 3 3 2 5 1 73 45 2008-09-21 @TOR W 7 2 0 0 2 6 0 109 77 2008-09-15 @TBR W 5 3 1 1 2 7 1 101 62 2008-09-09 TBR ND 5 8 3 3 4 5 0 102 40 2008-09-03 BAL ND 6 4 4 3 4 7 0 112 53 2008-08-29 CHW W 8 2 0 0 2 7 0 104 83 2008-08-24 @TOR ND 6 8 5 5 1 8 2 105 43 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.ANA 0-1 5 7 6 6 2 3 2 10.80 30 2008-07-28 LAA L 5 7 6 6 2 3 2 91 30
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 56-25 Road: 39-42 ExtrInn: 8-3 vsRHP: 70-54 vsLHP: 25-13 1-Run: 22-23 vsEast: 38-34 vsCntrl:24-10 vsWest: 22-16 IL:11-7 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 162 Sun, Sep 28 NYY W 4-3 (10) 95-67 2nd 2.0 gb 161 Sun, Sep 28 NYY L 2-6 94-67 2nd 2.0 gb 160 Fri, Sep 26 NYY L 8-19 94-66 2nd 2.0 gb 159 Thu, Sep 25 CLE W 6-1 94-65 2nd 2.0 gb 158 Wed, Sep 24 CLE W 5-4 93-65 2nd 3.0 gb 157 Tue, Sep 23 CLE W 5-4 92-65 2nd 3.0 gb 156 Mon, Sep 22 CLE L 3-4 91-65 2nd 2.5 gb 155 Sun, Sep 21 @TOR W 3-0 91-64 2nd 1.5 gb 154 Sat, Sep 20 @TOR L 3-6 90-64 2nd 2.5 gb 153 Fri, Sep 19 @TOR W 4-3 90-63 2nd 1.5 gb Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:11-9 Last 30:18-12
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 100-62, 1st, 21 up	SP: Ervin Santana (25, RHP, 16-7, 3.49) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (16-7) 219 198 89 85 47 214 23 3.49 2007 (7-14) 150 174 103 96 58 126 26 5.76 2006 (16-8) 204 181 106 97 70 141 21 4.28 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-2 49.1 49 22 21 5 48 6 3.83 57 2008-09-27 TEX L 5.2 10 8 8 1 5 2 106 21 2008-09-22 @SEA W 8 5 1 1 0 9 0 98 77 2008-09-14 SEA ND 7 6 2 2 1 3 0 91 59 2008-09-09 NYY L 6.1 8 6 5 1 6 2 106 40 2008-09-04 @DET W 7.1 6 1 1 1 8 1 112 69 2008-08-29 TEX W 8 5 1 1 1 7 0 108 74 2008-08-24 MIN ND 7 9 3 3 0 10 1 105 57 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.BOS 1-2 22 21 16 14 7 18 2 5.73 46 2007-08-17 @BOS ND 6.1 4 1 1 0 5 0 100 66 2007-04-16 @BOS L 4 7 7 5 3 4 1 78 25 2005-09-07 @BOS L 4 5 6 6 4 4 1 84 28 2005-08-20 BOS W 7.2 5 2 2 0 5 0 111 66
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 50-31 Road: 50-31 ExtrInn: 3-5 vsRHP: 67-46 vsLHP: 33-16 1-Run: 31-21 vsEast: 30-16 vsCntrl:24-17 vsWest: 36-21 IL:10-8 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 162 Sun, Sep 28 TEX W 7-0 100-62 1st 21.0 up 161 Sat, Sep 27 TEX L 4-8 99-62 1st 20.0 up 160 Fri, Sep 26 TEX L 1-12 99-61 1st 21.0 up 159 Thu, Sep 25 @SEA W 6-4 99-60 1st 22.0 up 158 Wed, Sep 24 @SEA W 6-5 98-60 1st 21.5 up 157 Tue, Sep 23 @SEA L 6-9 97-60 1st 21.5 up 156 Mon, Sep 22 @SEA W 2-1 97-59 1st 22.0 up 155 Sun, Sep 21 @TEX W 7-3 96-59 1st 21.5 up 154 Sat, Sep 20 @TEX W 7-3 95-59 1st 20.5 up 153 Fri, Sep 19 @TEX W 15-13 94-59 1st 19.5 up Last 10: 7-3 Last 20:14-6 Last 30:20-10
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Wed, Jul 30, 2008 LAA 9 @BOS 2 W:Joe Saunders (14-5), L: Josh Beckett (9-8), S: none Tue, Jul 29, 2008 LAA 6 @BOS 2 W:John Lackey (9-2), L: Clay Buchholz (2-6), S: none Mon, Jul 28, 2008 LAA 7 @BOS 5 W:Jered Weaver (9-8), L: Daisuke Matsuzaka (11-2), S: Francisco Rodriguez (44) Sun, Jul 20, 2008 LAA 5 BOS 3 W:Darren Oliver (3-1), L: Tim Wakefield (6-7), S: Francisco Rodriguez (40) Sat, Jul 19, 2008 LAA 4 BOS 2 W:Jose Arredondo (4-0), L: Josh Beckett (9-6), S: Francisco Rodriguez (39) Fri, Jul 18, 2008 LAA 11 BOS 3 W:John Lackey (7-2), L: Clay Buchholz (2-5), S: none Thu, Apr 24, 2008 LAA 7 @BOS 5 W:Joe Saunders (4-0), L: Manny Delcarmen (0-1), S: Francisco Rodriguez (9) Wed, Apr 23, 2008 LAA 6 @BOS 4 W:Jon Garland (3-2), L: Craig Hansen (0-1), S: Francisco Rodriguez (8) Tue, Apr 22, 2008 BOS 7 LAA 6 W:Mike Timlin (2-1), L: Darren Oliver (1-1), S: Jonathan Papelbon (8) Sun, Aug 19, 2007 LAA 3 @BOS 1 W:Joe Saunders (7-1), L: Julian Tavarez (6-9), S: Francisco Rodriguez (31) Season Series: 2008 - LAA leads 8-1; 2007 - BOS won 6-4; 2006 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - BOS leads 308-272

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 2008 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

ARI

LAD

ARI

RA/G

ARI

LAD

ARI

OBP

SLG

OPS

ERA

N. Musser .00

E. Jackson 4.42

M. DeSalvo 31.50

K/9IP

J. Roenicke 18.00

S. Richmond 6.67

J. Morillo .00

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Boston Red Sox Batters (5.22 RS/G) vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Pitchers (4.30 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 54.Santana
G/S/vB 66.Arredondo
G/S/vB 65.Jepsen
G/S/vB 38.Oliver*
G/S/vB 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB 62.Shields
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

44.Bay G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 670/ .286/.373/.522/.895 / .874 79/.968 10/0 31/

22.Casey* G/S/vP 4/.250 ··· ··· 19/1.214 2/.000 5/.650 218/ .322/.381/.392/.773 / .643 36/.485 1/0 0/

30.Cash G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 162/ .225/.309/.338/.647 / .668 26/.662 0/0 3/

13.Cora* G/S/vP 4/2.417 ··· ··· 4/.750 2/.000 4/.500 179/ .270/.371/.349/.719 / .658 33/.599 1/1 0/

10.Crisp# G/S/vP 3/3.000 ··· ··· 5/1.100 7/1.000 12/.432 409/ .283/.344/.407/.751 / .741 60/.885 20/7 7/

7.Drew* G/S/vP 7/.715 1/.000 ··· 11/.773 3/.333 7/1.738 456/ .280/.408/.519/.927 / .927 5/.650 4/1 19/

46.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 3/2.000 609/ .280/.336/.394/.729 / .676 83/.966 50/11 9/

11.Kotsay* G/S/vP 20/.950 ··· ··· 20/.566 10/.425 18/.944 436/ .276/.329/.403/.732 / .657 65/.479 2/4 6/

25.Lowell G/S/vP 6/1.300 ··· ··· 10/1.786 6/.500 5/.400 468/ .274/.338/.461/.798 / .823 41/.971 2/2 17/

12.Lowrie# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 4/.000 306/ .258/.339/.400/.739 / .696 84/.589 1/0 2/

34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 11/1.747 1/2.000 ··· 11/.606 6/1.334 16/1.458 491/ .264/.369/.507/.877 / .782 84/.874 1/0 23/

15.Pedroia G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 ··· 2/.500 3/.666 5/1.000 726/ .326/.376/.493/.869 / .827 93/.764 20/1 17/

28.Ross G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 4/.000 182/ .225/.369/.352/.721 / .649 8/.286 0/1 3/

33.Varitek# G/S/vP 9/.111 1/no AB ··· 8/.750 7/.453 14/.377 483/ .220/.313/.359/.672 / .679 57/.531 0/1 13/

20.Youkilis G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/2.000 ··· 4/1.417 7/.715 4/1.750 621/ .312/.390/.569/.958 / .900 83/1.040 3/5 29/

IP 219.0 61.0 8.1 72.0 68.1 63.1 TOTAL .280/.358/.447/.805 / .772 .766 120/35 173/85

ERA-K/9

3.49/8.8

1.62/8.1

4.32/7.6

2.88/6.0

2.24/10.1

2.70/9.1

4.00/6.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Cash (38-16-14)
Ross (26-10-6)
Varitek (56-16-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 897/.237 244/.190 36/.250 291/.254 288/.216 270/.236 .261 Bay
Drew
Ellsbury
Crisp
Kotsay
Youkilis 154/0/0/8
0/1/106/6
58/66/36/4
0/114/0/4
0/84/19/3
0/0/2/0

OPS .651 .533 .677 .682 .630 .669 .729

vs LHB (BF-OPS) / / / / / /

vs RHB (BF-OPS) / / / / / /

Home 425/.684 117/.520 15/.343 150/.549 138/.633 132/.668 .720

Last 28d days 114/.733 46/.483 36/.677 41/.644 40/.718 46/.673

HR/SB/CS 23/16/4 3/3/2 0/1/0 5/5/2 4/8/0 6/8/1 160/109/31

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

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Batters (4.72 RS/G) vs. Boston Red Sox Pitchers (4.28 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 18.Matsuzaka
G/S/vB 17.Delcarmen
G/S/vB 48.Lopez*
G/S/vB 63.Masterson
G/S/vB 37.Okajima*
G/S/vB 58.Papelbon
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

16.Anderson* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 3/2.000 5/1.000 6/.334 5/.000 593/ .293/.325/.433/.758 / .803 81/.837 7/4 15/

2.Aybar# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 375/ .277/.314/.384/.699 / .626 40/.685 7/2 3/

9.Figgins# G/S/vP 3/1.167 2/.500 4/1.250 4/.000 2/1.000 4/.250 520/ .276/.367/.318/.685 / .693 63/.633 34/13 1/

27.Guerrero G/S/vP 3/1.334 4/2.417 1/.000 5/.400 5/.200 10/.311 600/ .303/.365/.521/.886 / .831 62/1.137 5/3 27/

48.Hunter G/S/vP 7/1.000 3/.333 2/2.500 4/1.250 5/.800 1/.000 608/ .278/.344/.466/.810 / .850 66/.674 19/5 21/

47.Kendrick G/S/vP 2/.500 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 361/ .306/.333/.421/.754 / .736 17/.579 11/4 3/

5.Mathis G/S/vP 2/.000 2/2.000 3/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 328/ .194/.275/.318/.593 / .592 28/.399 2/2 9/

24.Matthews# G/S/vP ··· 4/1.750 1/.000 4/.500 5/.400 1/.000 477/ .242/.319/.357/.675 / .659 67/.770 8/3 8/

19.Morales# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 66/ .213/.273/.393/.666 / .601 53/.693 0/1 3/

44.Napoli G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· 274/ .273/.374/.586/.960 / .898 54/1.600 7/3 20/

39.Quinlan G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 181/ .262/.326/.311/.637 / .698 47/.560 4/2 1/

21.Rivera G/S/vP 2/.000 2/1.000 2/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 6/.000 280/ .246/.282/.438/.720 / .771 42/.872 1/1 12/

25.Teixeira# G/S/vP 3/2.167 2/.500 1/no AB ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 685/ .308/.410/.552/.962 / 1.026 89/1.027 2/0 33/

77.Willits# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 136/ .194/.321/.231/.552 / .573 39/.572 2/1 0/

3.Wood G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 157/ .200/.224/.327/.551 / .593 63/.753 4/0 5/

IP 167.2 74.1 59.1 88.1 62.0 69.1 TOTAL .268/.330/.413/.743 / .747 .798 129/48 159/91

ERA-K/9

2.90/8.3

3.27/8.7

2.43/5.8

3.16/6.9

2.61/8.7

2.34/10.0

4.01/7.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Mathis (57-20-3)
Napoli (52-11-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 716/.211 307/.205 247/.245 365/.216 258/.212 273/.223 .250 Anderson
Guerrero
Matthews
Hunter
Rivera
Morales
Willits
Quinlan 82/0/0/9
0/0/99/8
37/31/43/6
0/137/0/4
41/1/19/4
0/0/12/0
30/9/22/0
3/0/3/0

OPS .645 .605 .699 .674 .612 .561 .713

vs LHB (BF-OPS) / / / / / /

vs RHB (BF-OPS) / / / / / / .564

Road 314/.559 150/.682 96/.772 168/.659 131/.509 126/.590 .701

Last 28d days 92/.657 52/.430 34/.652 43/.603 29/.321 46/.825

HR/SB/CS 12/15/5 5/7/0 4/1/3 10/9/1 6/0/1 4/2/0 147/96/32

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

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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Game Preview: BOS @ LAA, 9:30pm, Friday, October 3, 2008 @Angel Stadium

NOTE: Some stats are only updated through Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Site will be updated with yesterday's stats by 11:30am ET.

SP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (27, RHP, 18-3, 2.90)

SP: Ervin Santana (25, RHP, 16-7, 3.49)

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