TEX @ BOS, Friday, April 18, 2008 Game Preview

Texas Rangers, 7-9, 4th, 2½ GB, 2 GB in WC	SP: Luis Mendoza (24, RHP, 0-1, 1.80) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-1) 5 8 4 1 3 1 0 1.80 2007 (1-0) 16 13 4 4 4 7 1 2.25 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 1-1 16.2 18 7 4 7 5 1 2.16 49 2008-04-12 TOR L 5 8 4 1 3 1 0 93 39 2007-09-26 LAA ND 4.2 4 2 2 3 2 0 70 47 2007-09-21 BAL W 5 4 1 1 1 2 1 71 56 2007-09-08 OAK ND 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 30 52 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.BOS Has never faced BOS.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 2-6 Road: 5-3 ExtrInn: 1-1 vsRHP: 6-7 vsLHP: 1-2 1-Run: 2-2 vsEast: 4-4 vsCntrl: 0-0 vsWest: 3-5 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 16 Thu, Apr 17 @TOR W 4-1 7-9 4th 2.5 gb 15 Wed, Apr 16 @TOR W 7-5 (14) 6-9 4th 2.5 gb 14 Tue, Apr 15 LAA L 4-7 5-9 4th 3.5 gb 13 Mon, Apr 14 LAA L 4-7 5-8 4th 3.5 gb 12 Sun, Apr 13 TOR L 4-5 (10) 5-7 4th 2.5 gb 11 Sat, Apr 12 TOR L 1-4 5-6 4th 2.5 gb 10 Fri, Apr 11 TOR L 5-8 5-5 3rd 1.5 gb 9 Thu, Apr 10 BAL W 5-4 5-4 3rd 0.5 gb 8 Thu, Apr 10 BAL W 3-1 4-4 3rd 0.5 gb 7 Tue, Apr 8 BAL L 1-8 3-4 3rd 1.0 gb Last 10: 4-6 Last 20: 7-9 Last 30: 7-9
Boston Red Sox, 10-7, 1st, ½ up	SP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (27, RHP, 3-0, 2.70) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (3-0) 23.1 13 7 7 15 24 2 2.70 2007 (15-12) 204.2 191 100 100 80 201 25 4.40 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 4-0 43.2 29 16 16 25 46 4 3.30 58 2008-04-13 NYY W 5 5 4 4 6 2 0 116 37 2008-04-08 DET W 6.2 4 0 0 4 7 0 108 69 2008-04-01 OAK W 6.2 2 1 1 0 9 1 96 75 2008-03-25 OAK ND 5 2 2 2 5 6 1 95 56 2007-09-28 MIN W 8 6 2 2 2 8 1 119 68 2007-09-22 TBD ND 6.2 6 5 5 3 7 1 115 46 2007-09-14 NYY ND 5.2 4 2 2 5 7 0 120 55 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.TEX 1-0 5 7 5 5 3 6 2 9.00 36 2007-05-25 TEX W 5 7 5 5 3 6 2 85 36
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 4-2 Road: 6-5 ExtrInn: 1-0 vsRHP: 8-7 vsLHP: 2-0 1-Run: 3-0 vsEast: 3-5 vsCntrl: 4-1 vsWest: 3-1 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 17 Thu, Apr 17 @NYY W 7-5 10-7 1st 0.5 up 16 Wed, Apr 16 @NYY L 9-15 9-7 1st Tied 15 Tue, Apr 15 @CLE W 5-3 9-6 1st 0.5 up 14 Mon, Apr 14 @CLE W 6-4 8-6 2nd 0.5 gb 13 Sun, Apr 13 NYY W 8-5 7-6 3rd 0.5 gb 12 Sat, Apr 12 NYY W 4-3 6-6 3rd 1.5 gb 11 Fri, Apr 11 NYY L 1-4 5-6 5th 1.5 gb 10 Thu, Apr 10 DET W 12-6 5-5 2nd 1.5 gb 9 Wed, Apr 9 DET L 2-7 4-5 3rd 3.0 gb 8 Tue, Apr 8 DET W 5-0 4-4 3rd 2.5 gb Last 10: 7-3 Last 20:10-7 Last 30:10-7
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Mon, Jul 02, 2007 BOS 7 TEX 3 W:Kason Gabbard , L: Brandon McCarthy , S: none Sun, Jul 01, 2007 TEX 2 @BOS 1 W:Kameron Loe , L: Julian Tavarez , S: Eric Gagne Sat, Jun 30, 2007 TEX 5 @BOS 4 W:Ron Mahay , L: Josh Beckett , S: Eric Gagne Fri, Jun 29, 2007 BOS 2 TEX 1 W:Tim Wakefield , L: Jamey Wright , S: Jonathan Papelbon Sun, May 27, 2007 BOS 6 @TEX 5 W:Joel Pineiro , L: Akinori Otsuka , S: Hideki Okajima Sat, May 26, 2007 BOS 7 @TEX 4 W:Tim Wakefield , L: Vicente Padilla , S: Jonathan Papelbon Fri, May 25, 2007 BOS 10 @TEX 6 W:Daisuke Matsuzaka , L: Wes Littleton , S: none Sun, Apr 08, 2007 BOS 3 @TEX 2 W:Curt Schilling , L: Vicente Padilla , S: Jonathan Papelbon Sat, Apr 07, 2007 TEX 8 BOS 4 W:Kevin Millwood , L: Julian Tavarez , S: none Fri, Apr 06, 2007 TEX 2 BOS 0 W:Robinson Tejeda , L: Tim Wakefield , S: Akinori Otsuka Season Series: 2008 - 0-0; 2007 - BOS won 6-4; 2006 - BOS won 5-4; 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

For the 2007 season

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

M. Ordonez .363

J. Francoeur .293

J. LaRue .148

OBP

B. Bonds .480

J. Varitek .367

J. LaRue .240

SLG

C. Ross .653

T. Tulowitzki .479

A. Gonzalez .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez 1.067

G. Sheffield .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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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Texas Rangers Batters (4.25 RS/G) vs. Boston Red Sox Pitchers (5.06 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 18.Matsuzaka
G/S/vB 53.Aardsma
G/S/vB 17.Delcarmen
G/S/vB 48.Lopez*
G/S/vB 37.Okajima*
G/S/vB 58.Papelbon
G/S/vB 51.Tavarez
G/S/vB 50.Timlin
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

9.Blalock* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/4.000 ··· 2/1.000 4/.833 4/.250 232/178 .293/.358/.543/.901 .796/.932 .790 / 4/1 10/6

29.Botts# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 190/143 .240/.326/.335/.662 .833/.605 .660 / 1/0 2/0

21.Bradley# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.333 3/1.334 ··· ··· 14/.572 4/1.500 244/166 .306/.402/.545/.947 .966/.937 .964 / 5/2 13/2

23.Broussard* G/S/vP 6/.500 1/2.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 7/.762 7/.310 264/245 .275/.330/.404/.734 .618/.742 .734 / 2/0 7/2

27.Catalanotto* G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· 4/1.500 ··· 1/.000 9/1.223 15/.733 11/1.727 377/358 .260/.337/.444/.781 .606/.788 .622 / 2/1 11/0

6.Duran G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

32.Hamilton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 337/256 .292/.368/.554/.922 .588/1.028 .861 / 3/3 19/4

5.Kinsler G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 5/.800 1/.000 566/431 .263/.355/.441/.796 .999/.732 .675 / 23/2 20/17

15.Laird G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 2/.000 2/.000 6/.000 1/.000 448/329 .224/.278/.349/.627 .691/.603 .588 / 6/2 9/12

2.Melhuse# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 4/.250 1/3.000 103/76 .213/.275/.287/.562 .630/.532 .608 / 0/0 1/0

7.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 112/89 .343/.384/.552/.936 1.071/.901 1.056 / 0/0 2/1

12.Vazquez* G/S/vP 2/2.500 1/no AB 1/no AB 5/.650 1/.000 2/.000 11/.664 ··· 345/257 .230/.300/.373/.674 .483/.739 .735 / 1/0 8/7

10.Young G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 3/2.000 ··· 3/.000 3/.000 11/.637 6/1.000 692/524 .315/.366/.418/.783 .797/.779 .759 / 13/3 9/19

IP 204.2 32.1 44.0 40.2 69.0 58.1 134.2 55.1 TOTAL .262/.340/.416/.755 .758/.755 .807 .755 11/2 15/17

ERA-K/9

4.40/8.8

6.40/10.0

2.05/8.4

3.10/5.7

2.22/8.2

1.85/13.0

5.15/5.1

3.42/5.0

4.95/7.6

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Laird (59-39-9)
Melhuse (16-4-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 874/.246 151/.300 176/.183 174/.240 272/.202 224/.146 604/.281 222/.232 .245 Hamilton
Murphy
Bradley
Botts
Catalanotto
Laird
Broussard 9/71/10/7
32/10/15/4
40/15/4/3
28/0/0/2
64/0/0/2
1/0/0/0
10/0/12/0

OPS .731 .867 .564 .695 .561 .463 .779 .664 .729

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 424/.744 59/.789 73/.578 93/.805 98/.648 126/.400 303/.723 92/.500 .653

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 450/.719 92/.904 103/.555 81/.565 174/.512 98/.543 301/.834 130/.779 .781

Home 395/.750 71/.618 88/.675 92/.723 138/.632 119/.555 280/.758 106/.604 .748

Last 28d days / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 25/18/7 4/0/0 4/2/2 2/0/1 6/5/0 5/4/0 14/0/0 7/3/2 16/13/3

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Boston Red Sox Batters (4.82 RS/G) vs. Texas Rangers Pitchers (4.69 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 46.Mendoza
G/S/vB 53.Benoit
G/S/vB 54.German
G/S/vB 58.Littleton
G/S/vB 57.Nippert
G/S/vB 59.Rupe
G/S/vB 36.Wilson*
G/S/vB 45.Wright
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

22.Casey* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 28/.801 496/425 .296/.353/.393/.746 .929/.716 .794 / 2/2 4/2

36.Cash G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 33/18 .111/.242/.148/.391 .354/.421 .138 / 0/0 0/1

10.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· 8/.393 6/.900 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 3/1.167 591/426 .268/.330/.382/.712 .751/.697 .765 / 28/6 6/1

7.Drew* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 31/.896 552/422 .270/.373/.423/.796 .638/.846 .833 / 4/2 11/6

46.Ellsbury* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 127/98 .353/.394/.509/.902 .802/.931 .971 / 9/0 3/0

12.Lowrie# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

23.Lugo G/S/vP ··· 14/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 15/.690 630/455 .237/.294/.349/.643 .651/.640 .745 / 33/6 8/19

34.Ortiz* G/S/vP ··· 18/.656 3/1.167 2/2.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 6/1.500 667/457 .332/.445/.621/1.066 .852/1.171 1.128 / 3/1 35/0

15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/1.667 581/395 .317/.380/.442/.823 .870/.800 .912 / 7/1 8/6

24.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 23/1.067 3/1.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 569/408 .296/.388/.493/.881 1.095/.801 .891 / 0/0 20/2

3.Thurston* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

33.Varitek# G/S/vP ··· 16/.750 4/2.750 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 518/371 .255/.367/.421/.787 .801/.782 .794 / 1/2 17/6

20.Youkilis G/S/vP ··· 5/.200 ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 625/451 .288/.390/.453/.843 .815/.854 .797 / 4/2 16/3

IP 16.0 82.0 48.0 45.1 68.1 77.0 TOTAL .289/.359/.431/.790 .787/.791 .775 .790 9/4 15/9

ERA-K/9

2.25/3.9

2.85/9.5

/0.0

4.31/4.5

5.56/7.5

/0.0

3.03/8.3

3.62/4.6

3.80/4.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Cash (9-2-0)
Varitek (63-20-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 64/.232 337/.225 / 205/.262 196/.267 / 285/.208 330/.259 .283 Ramirez
Crisp
Drew
Ellsbury 120/0/0/8
0/144/0/7
0/4/133/3
22/16/1/0

OPS .636 .641 .737 .743 .602 .743 .752

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 37/.637 146/.489 / 79/.695 92/.662 / 115/.381 144/.848 .770

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 27/.634 191/.760 / 126/.763 104/.807 / 170/.754 186/.666 .737

Road 16/.438 152/.712 / 98/.574 80/.815 / 122/.559 179/.830 .726

Last 28d days / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 1/0/1 6/2/2 // 6/3/1 5/1/0 // 4/2/0 6/4/4 9/11/8

Usage ·····X·· ·Xo·o··X ·X·oXo·· ·X·X···· ·o··X·X· ··X··X·· Xoo·X··X XX·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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Game Preview: TEX @ BOS, 7:05pm, Friday, April 18, 2008 @Fenway Park II

SP: Luis Mendoza (24, RHP, 0-1, 1.80)

SP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (27, RHP, 3-0, 2.70)

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