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Game Preview: LAA @ BOS, 7:05pm, Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @Fenway Park II

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 12-8, 1st, Tied

SP: Jered Weaver (25, RHP, 1-3, 3.60)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-3)             25    25  11  10   7  15  2    3.60      
 2007 (13-7)           161   178  77  70  45 115 17    3.91      
 2006 (11-2)           123    94  36  35  33 105 15    2.56      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-3  42    42  17  16   9  26  4    3.43   53 
 2008-04-16    KCR   L   6    10   3   2   1   1  0      96   42 
 2008-04-11   @SEA   L   5.2   4   5   5   4   3  2     102   40 
 2008-04-05    TEX   W   7     3   0   0   0   6  0      93   77 
 2008-03-31   @MIN   L   6.1   8   3   3   2   5  0     106   48 
 2007-09-30   @OAK  ND   6     4   1   1   1   2  1      86   61 
 2007-09-20    SEA   W   5     9   4   4   0   1  1      99   34 
 2007-09-15   @CHW   W   6     4   1   1   1   8  0     114   67 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.BOS      0-2  23    25  12  12   6  19  3    4.70   49 
 2007-08-18   @BOS   L   4.1   8   6   6   1   5  1      84   27 
 2007-08-06    BOS  ND   6     6   2   2   2   4  1     107   54 
 2006-08-24    BOS   L   6     4   1   1   1   6  1     107   65 
 2006-07-29   @BOS  ND   6.2   7   3   3   2   4  0      98   50 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    6-5    Road:    6-3    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:  11-7    vsLHP:   1-1    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 6-3    vsWest:  6-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 20 Sun, Apr 20   SEA  L   2-4       12-8   1st    Tied
 19 Sat, Apr 19   SEA  W   4-1       12-7   1st  1.0 up
 18 Fri, Apr 18   SEA  W   5-4       11-7   1st  1.0 up
 17 Thu, Apr 17   KCR  W   5-3       10-7   1st  1.0 up
 16 Wed, Apr 16   KCR  L   2-3        9-7   1st    Tied
 15 Tue, Apr 15  @TEX  W   7-4        9-6   1st    Tied
 14 Mon, Apr 14  @TEX  W   7-4        8-6   2nd  1.0 gb
 13 Sun, Apr 13  @SEA  W  10-5        7-6   2nd  1.0 gb
 12 Sat, Apr 12  @SEA  L   3-8        6-6   2nd  2.0 gb
 11 Fri, Apr 11  @SEA  L   5-8        6-5   2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:12-8 
Boston Red Sox, 14-7, 1st, 2 up

SP: Josh Beckett (28, RHP, 2-1, 5.12)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. ANA Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (2-1)             19.1  14  11  11   6  16  1    5.12      
 2007 (20-7)           200.2 189  76  73  40 194 17    3.27      
 2006 (16-11)          204.2 191 120 114  74 158 36    5.01      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         5-2  45.1  38  20  20  10  45  6    3.97   57 
 2008-04-17   @NYY   W   8     6   3   3   1   5  0     105   62 
 2008-04-12    NYY   W   6.2   5   3   3   1   5  0      88   56 
 2008-04-06   @TOR   L   4.2   3   5   5   4   6  1      92   40 
 2007-09-27    MIN   L   6    10   5   5   0   6  2      99   38 
 2007-09-21   @TBD   W   6     4   1   1   2   8  0     113   66 
 2007-09-15    NYY   W   7     3   1   1   2   7  1     108   72 
 2007-09-09   @BAL   W   7     7   2   2   0   8  2     116   63 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.ANA      2-0  25    19   7   6   8  22  1    2.16   61 
 2007-08-17    LAA  ND   7     5   2   1   1   8  0     104   68 
 2007-04-16    LAA   W   6     6   1   1   1   5  1      99   60 
 2006-08-24   @LAA   W   6     4   1   1   2   3  0      72   61 
 2006-07-29    LAA  ND   6     4   3   3   4   6  0     102   54 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    8-2    Road:    6-5    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:  11-7    vsLHP:   3-0    1-Run:   4-0 
 vsEast:  3-5    vsCntrl: 4-1    vsWest:  7-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 21 Mon, Apr 21   TEX  W   8-3       14-7   1st  2.0 up
 20 Sun, Apr 20   TEX  W   6-5       13-7   1st  1.5 up
 19 Sat, Apr 19   TEX  W   5-3       12-7   1st  0.5 up
 18 Fri, Apr 18   TEX  W  11-3       11-7   1st  0.5 up
 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
 Last 10: 9-1    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:14-7 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Aug 19, 2007 LAA  3 @BOS  1        W:Joe Saunders (7-1), L: Julian Tavarez (6-9), S: Francisco Rodriguez (31)
Sat, Aug 18, 2007 BOS 10  LAA  5        W:Curt Schilling (7-5), L: Jered Weaver (8-6), S: none
Fri, Aug 17, 2007 LAA  7 @BOS  5        W:Francisco Rodriguez (5-2), L: Eric Gagne (3-1), S: none
Fri, Aug 17, 2007 BOS  8  LAA  4        W:Clay Buchholz (1-0), L: John Lackey (15-7), S: Jonathan Papelbon (29)
Wed, Aug 08, 2007 BOS  9 @LAA  6        W:Hideki Okajima (3-0), L: Justin Speier (1-3), S: Jonathan Papelbon (26)
Tue, Aug 07, 2007 LAA 10  BOS  4        W:Joe Saunders (6-0), L: Tim Wakefield (13-10), S: none
Mon, Aug 06, 2007 LAA  4  BOS  2        W:Justin Speier (1-2), L: Curt Schilling (6-5), S: Francisco Rodriguez (28)
Mon, Apr 16, 2007 BOS  7  LAA  2        W:Josh Beckett (3-0), L: Ervin Santana (1-2), S: none
Sat, Apr 14, 2007 BOS  8  LAA  0        W:Curt Schilling (2-1), L: Hector Carrasco (0-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 13, 2007 BOS 10  LAA  1        W:Tim Wakefield (1-1), L: John Lackey (2-1), S: none
Season Series: 2008 -  0-0; 2007 - BOS won 6-4; 2006 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - BOS leads 307-264

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

BA

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.

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Batters (4.85 RS/G) vs. Boston Red Sox Pitchers (4.76 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 19.Beckett
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/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Anderson* G/S/vP 12/1.100 ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 3/.666 4/.000 17/.306 15/.962 450/339 .297/.336/.492/.827 .806/.834 .745 / 1/0 16/2
2.Aybar# G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 211/160 .237/.279/.289/.568 .753/.509 .487 / 4/4 1/7
9.Figgins# G/S/vP 10/.425 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 4/.250 6/.450 10/.222 503/398 .330/.393/.432/.825 .845/.820 .705 / 41/12 3/14
27.Guerrero G/S/vP 29/.770 2/2.000 2/4.000 ··· 2/.000 9/.347 35/1.064 16/.958 660/528 .324/.403/.547/.950 .982/.942 .946 / 2/3 27/9
48.Hunter G/S/vP 6/.733 4/1.417 2/.500 1/2.000 2/2.000 1/.000 12/.614 4/1.000 650/470 .287/.334/.505/.839 .906/.813 .821 / 18/9 28/2
6.Izturis# G/S/vP 18/.572 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 7/.929 3/.000 374/289 .289/.349/.405/.753 .738/.758 .616 / 7/1 6/4
35.Kotchman* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 3/.000 4/.750 5/.000 508/424 .296/.372/.467/.840 .775/.852 .774 / 2/4 11/3
5.Mathis G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 195/158 .211/.276/.351/.627 .691/.612 .501 / 0/1 4/4
24.Matthews# G/S/vP 13/.481 ··· 3/2.334 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 14/.786 8/.250 579/442 .252/.323/.419/.742 .563/.796 .675 / 18/4 18/5
19.Morales# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 126/96 .294/.333/.479/.812 .577/.887 .833 / 0/1 4/0
44.Napoli G/S/vP 4/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 263/195 .247/.351/.443/.794 .828/.783 .803 / 5/2 10/7
39.Quinlan G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 2/2.000 194/66 .247/.304/.348/.652 .691/.576 .661 / 3/2 3/2
21.Rivera G/S/vP 12/.350 ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 5/.000 1/.000 5/.900 44/15 .279/.295/.442/.737 .759/.690 1.082 / 0/0 2/0
18.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
IP 200.2 32.1 44.0 40.2 69.0 58.1 134.2 55.1 TOTAL .293/.348/.440/.788 .793/.788 .838 .788 18/7 20/10
ERA-K/9 3.27/8.7 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 4.67/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Mathis (40-8-5)
 Napoli (49-15-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 822/.245 151/.300 176/.183 174/.240 272/.202 224/.146 604/.281 222/.232 .248  Anderson
 Matthews
 Guerrero
 Hunter
 Rivera
 Figgins
 Quinlan
 Aybar
 Morales
85/0/0/7
0/135/0/7
0/0/109/5
0/155/0/5
2/0/7/1
0/0/11/1
16/0/6/0
6/0/2/0
0/0/6/0
OPS .663 .867 .564 .695 .561 .463 .779 .664 .733
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 410/.684 59/.789 73/.578 93/.805 98/.648 126/.400 303/.723 92/.500 .675
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 412/.641 92/.904 103/.555 81/.565 174/.512 98/.543 301/.834 130/.779 .778
Home 458/.683 71/.618 88/.675 92/.723 138/.632 119/.555 280/.758 106/.604 .749
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 17/14/6 4/0/0 4/2/2 2/0/1 6/5/0 5/4/0 14/0/0 7/3/2 20/14/3
Usage ····X··· X··X·Xo· X·X···X· X·oX··X· ······o· ·oo·X··o ·····X·X ··oo·X·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 (5.33 RS/G) vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Pitchers (4.35 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Weaver
G/S/vB
49.Bootcheck
G/S/vB
53.O'Day
G/S/vB
38.Oliver*
G/S/vB
57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB
62.Shields
G/S/vB
33.Speier
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
22.Casey* G/S/vP 4/.500 5/.400 ··· 18/1.100 1/.000 3/.333 5/1.800 496/425 .296/.353/.393/.746 .929/.716 .794 / 2/2 4/2
36.Cash G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 33/18 .111/.242/.148/.391 .354/.421 .138 / 0/0 0/1
10.Crisp# G/S/vP 11/.273 4/.500 ··· 4/.833 6/1.166 10/.522 4/.500 591/426 .268/.330/.382/.712 .751/.697 .765 / 28/6 6/1
7.Drew* G/S/vP 6/1.000 3/.000 ··· 9/1.000 2/.000 5/1.850 5/1.100 552/422 .270/.373/.423/.796 .638/.846 .833 / 4/2 11/6
46.Ellsbury* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 127/98 .353/.394/.509/.902 .802/.931 .971 / 9/0 3/0
12.Lowrie# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
23.Lugo G/S/vP 8/1.500 5/1.100 ··· 9/.777 8/.375 9/.619 13/.633 630/455 .237/.294/.349/.643 .651/.640 .745 / 33/6 8/19
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 12/1.683 4/.500 ··· 11/.606 5/1.800 14/1.104 9/.476 667/457 .332/.445/.621/1.066 .852/1.171 1.128 / 3/1 35/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 6/.533 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 2/1.000 2/2.500 581/395 .317/.380/.442/.823 .870/.800 .912 / 7/1 8/6
24.Ramirez G/S/vP 8/.125 4/1.750 ··· 29/.837 7/.715 11/.384 8/.804 569/408 .296/.388/.493/.881 1.095/.801 .891 / 0/0 20/2
3.Thurston* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 / /// / / / /
33.Varitek# G/S/vP 8/.375 3/.000 ··· 7/.572 7/.453 12/.258 12/1.222 518/371 .255/.367/.421/.787 .801/.782 .794 / 1/2 17/6
20.Youkilis G/S/vP 13/.968 3/.333 ··· 3/1.334 6/.833 2/3.000 3/.666 625/451 .288/.390/.453/.843 .815/.854 .797 / 4/2 16/3
IP 161.0 77.1 64.1 67.1 77.0 50.0 TOTAL .297/.375/.447/.822 .809/.824 .851 .822 15/4 18/9
ERA-K/9 3.91/6.4 4.77/6.5 /0.0 3.78/7.1 2.81/12.0 3.86/9.0 2.88/8.5 4.12/5.0

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 695/.280 331/.274 / 273/.239 285/.204 320/.220 198/.202 .273  Ramirez
 Crisp
 Drew
 Ellsbury
120/0/0/8
0/144/0/7
0/4/133/3
22/16/1/0
OPS .745 .757 .648 .605 .643 .614 .763
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 353/.754 143/.796 / 102/.810 128/.549 163/.694 90/.659 .850
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 342/.736 188/.727 / 171/.553 157/.649 157/.589 108/.575 .689
Road 345/.738 155/.805 / 133/.731 134/.557 163/.621 78/.623 .753
Last 28d days / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 17/19/2 7/6/2 // 5/3/0 3/12/1 7/3/1 6/2/3 19/14/4
Usage ·····X·· ·o······ ·X···X·· ······X· ···oX·Xo ··o·o·oo ····o·oo

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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