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Game Preview: TEX @ BOS, 7:05pm, Tuesday, August 12, 2008 @Fenway Park II

Texas Rangers, 61-58, 2nd, 14 GB, 7 GB in WC

SP: Scott Feldman (25, RHP, 4-5, 4.82)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (4-5)            112   109  66  60  45  54 16    4.82      
 2007 (1-2)             39    44  26  25  32  19  3    5.77      
 2006 (0-2)             41.1  42  19  18  10  30  4    3.92      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-2  39.2  39  24  23  21  18  7    5.22   45 
 2008-08-07    NYY   L   7     7   2   2   2   4  1     103   57 
 2008-08-02    TOR   L   5.1   5   4   3   3   4  0      90   45 
 2008-07-28    SEA  ND   6     8   5   5   1   4  3      85   39 
 2008-07-21   @CHW   W   6     4   1   1   3   1  1      85   58 
 2008-07-10    LAA  ND   3.2   6   8   8   5   2  1      84   14 
 2008-07-05   @BAL   W   6     5   3   3   4   0  0      93   46 
 2008-06-30   @NYY   W   5.2   4   1   1   3   3  1     101   57 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.BOS    Has never faced BOS.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   31-26   Road:   30-32   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  47-36   vsLHP:  14-22   1-Run:  23-12
 vsEast: 15-19   vsCntrl:16-16   vsWest: 20-15 IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
119 Sun, Aug 10  @BAL  W  15-7       61-58  2nd 14.0 gb
118 Sat, Aug  9  @BAL  L   0-9       60-58  2nd 14.0 gb
117 Fri, Aug  8  @BAL  L   1-9       60-57  2nd 13.0 gb
116 Thu, Aug  7   NYY  L   0-3       60-56  2nd 12.0 gb
115 Wed, Aug  6   NYY  L   3-5       60-55  2nd 11.5 gb
114 Tue, Aug  5   NYY  W   8-6       60-54  2nd 10.5 gb
113 Mon, Aug  4   NYY  W   9-5       59-54  2nd 11.5 gb
112 Sun, Aug  3   TOR  W   8-4       58-54  2nd 11.5 gb
111 Sat, Aug  2   TOR  L   4-6       57-54  2nd 12.5 gb
110 Fri, Aug  1   TOR  W   9-8       57-53  2nd 12.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Boston Red Sox, 68-51, 2nd, 4 GB, 2 up in WC

SP: (, RHP, 0-0, undef)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS                                              inf      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.TEX    Has never faced TEX.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   40-16   Road:   28-35   ExtrInn: 6-2 
 vsRHP:  50-42   vsLHP:  18-9    1-Run:  15-19
 vsEast: 21-21   vsCntrl:19-8    vsWest: 17-15 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
119 Mon, Aug 11  @CHW  W   5-1       68-51  2nd  4.0 gb
118 Sun, Aug 10  @CHW  L   5-6       67-51  2nd  4.5 gb
117 Sat, Aug  9  @CHW  W   6-2       67-50  2nd  3.5 gb
116 Fri, Aug  8  @CHW  L   3-5       66-50  2nd  3.5 gb
115 Wed, Aug  6  @KCR  W   8-2       66-49  2nd  3.0 gb
114 Tue, Aug  5  @KCR  W   8-2       65-49  2nd  3.0 gb
113 Mon, Aug  4  @KCR  L   3-4       64-49  2nd  3.0 gb
112 Sun, Aug  3   OAK  W   5-2       64-48  2nd  3.0 gb
111 Sat, Aug  2   OAK  W  12-2       63-48  2nd  3.0 gb
110 Fri, Aug  1   OAK  W   2-1 (12)  62-48  2nd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 BOS  8  TEX  3        W:Clay Buchholz (1-1), L: Dustin Nippert (1-2), S: none
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 BOS  6  TEX  5        W:Tim Wakefield (2-0), L: C.J. Wilson (0-1), S: Jonathan Papelbon (7)
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 BOS  5  TEX  3        W:Javier Lopez (1-0), L: Joaquin Benoit (1-1), S: Jonathan Papelbon (6)
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 BOS 11  TEX  3        W:Daisuke Matsuzaka (4-0), L: Luis Mendoza (0-2), S: none

Mon, Jul 02, 2007 BOS  7  TEX  3        W:Kason Gabbard (2-0), L: Brandon McCarthy (4-5), S: none
Sun, Jul 01, 2007 TEX  2 @BOS  1        W:Kameron Loe (5-6), L: Julian Tavarez (5-6), S: Eric Gagne (10)
Sat, Jun 30, 2007 TEX  5 @BOS  4        W:Ron Mahay (1-0), L: Josh Beckett (11-2), S: Eric Gagne (9)
Fri, Jun 29, 2007 BOS  2  TEX  1        W:Tim Wakefield (8-8), L: Jamey Wright (1-2), S: Jonathan Papelbon (19)
Sun, May 27, 2007 BOS  6 @TEX  5        W:Joel Pineiro (1-0), L: Akinori Otsuka (1-1), S: Hideki Okajima (3)
Sat, May 26, 2007 BOS  7 @TEX  4        W:Tim Wakefield (5-5), L: Vicente Padilla (2-7), S: Jonathan Papelbon (12)
Season Series: 2008 - BOS leads 4-0; 2007 - BOS won 6-4; 2006 - BOS won 5-4; All-Time - BOS leads 312-272

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

TEX  5.61

MIL  4.69

WSN  3.74

RA/G

TOR  3.95

MIN  4.62

TEX  5.93

BA

C. Jones  .370

C. Utley  .290

J. Towles  .143

OBP

C. Jones  .467

M. Aviles  .360

T. Pena  .178

SLG

A. Pujols  .613

S. Drew  .481

T. Pena  .204

OPS

A. Pujols  1.073

J. Willingham  .832

T. Pena  .382

ERA

C. Lee  2.45

S. Olsen  4.04

I. Snell  6.06

K/9IP

T. Lincecum  9.99

G. Floyd  6.33

L. Hernandez  3.48

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Texas Rangers Batters (5.61 RS/G) vs. Boston Red Sox Pitchers (4.06 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 53.Aardsma
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
50.Timlin
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
41.Boggs# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 249/174 .238/.335/.397/.732 .855/.677 .626 46/.620 3/2 5/
21.Bradley# G/S/vP 2/.000 4/.250 4/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.500 382/247 .319/.446/.590/1.036 1.147/.970 .850 49/.937 4/3 19/
22.Byrd G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 291/184 .286/.374/.464/.838 .911/.795 .671 91/1.109 4/1 8/
27.Catalanotto* G/S/vP 1/no AB 4/1.500 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 10/1.100 11/1.727 248/233 .282/.351/.395/.746 .536/.759 .807 41/.720 1/1 2/
19.Davis* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 157/107 .279/.318/.585/.904 1.079/.823 .826 93/.851 0/1 11/
16.Ellison G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 10/8 .222/.300/.222/.522 .500/.500 .522 10/.522 0/0 0/
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/3.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 523/357 .303/.367/.554/.921 .835/.961 .783 98/.932 7/0 28/
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 3/.666 555/413 .319/.378/.506/.884 .814/.908 .871 103/.624 26/1 15/
15.Laird G/S/vP 2/1.500 1/.000 4/.250 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 259/191 .292/.344/.428/.772 .728/.787 .843 56/.682 1/3 6/
30.Metcalf G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 28/12 .148/.179/.259/.438 .192/.750 1.000 19/.652 0/0 1/
25.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 201/130 .233/.338/.337/.676 .468/.796 .629 33/.795 0/2 3/
12.Vazquez* G/S/vP 1/no AB 1/no AB 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 292/248 .316/.383/.478/.862 .478/.927 .807 42/.904 0/1 6/
10.Young G/S/vP 1/.000 4/2.333 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 3/.000 8/.715 523/388 .287/.337/.414/.751 .823/.725 .701 97/.635 8/0 10/
IP 40.2 48.2 43.0 66.0 45.0 50.1 32.2 TOTAL .281/.352/.458/.810 .777/.823 .752 .787 64/18 146/102
ERA-K/9 2.88/9.5 4.07/8.5 2.51/5.0 3.41/7.4 2.60/8.0 1.97/10.6 5.23/5.0 3.77/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Laird (38-16-2)
 Saltalamacchia (37-7-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 178/.208 206/.232 178/.263 276/.206 193/.234 194/.202 147/.285 .244  Byrd
 Hamilton
 Boggs
 Bradley
 Ellison
 Catalanotto
4/49/29/7
0/73/33/6
57/0/2/5
1/0/19/4
1/1/1/0
22/0/0/0
OPS .641 .670 .742 .670 .662 .521 .797 .697
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 76/.578 90/.576 91/.669 149/.801 77/.570 105/.523 66/1.003 .711
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 102/.690 116/.744 87/.815 127/.524 116/.726 89/.518 81/.628 .685
Home 90/.775 100/.573 108/.703 146/.713 93/.785 100/.419 69/.780 .712
Last 28d days 10/.889 35/.590 25/.851 46/.563 25/.427 33/.303 26/.500
HR/SB/CS 1/2/0 4/7/0 3/1/3 9/7/0 5/0/1 3/2/0 4/3/0 104/77/28
Usage ·X······ ···o·X·· ·······o ·X···X·o ·o······ o····X·· ··o···o·
Boston Red Sox Batters (5.00 RS/G) vs. Texas Rangers Pitchers (5.93 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 39.Feldman
G/S/vB
53.Benoit
G/S/vB
50.Francisco
G/S/vB
18.Guardado*
G/S/vB
60.Madrigal
G/S/vB
57.Nippert
G/S/vB
59.Rupe
G/S/vB
45.Wright
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
44.Bay G/S/vP 1/no AB 3/.000 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· 3/.667 ··· 13/.913 506/386 .287/.375/.516/.892 .740/.936 .953 105/.796 7/0 23/
22.Casey* G/S/vP 4/1.750 1/.000 2/.500 3/.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 29/.845 164/135 .356/.415/.443/.858 1.041/.817 1.052 26/.607 1/0 0/
36.Cash G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 115/91 .229/.287/.343/.630 .935/.551 .627 14/.286 0/0 2/
13.Cora* G/S/vP ··· 8/.417 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/.986 87/78 .280/.372/.347/.719 .819/.707 .690 18/.656 0/0 0/
10.Crisp# G/S/vP 2/1.000 8/.393 2/1.500 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 287/215 .247/.300/.388/.688 .845/.634 .753 53/.539 14/3 6/
7.Drew* G/S/vP 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/no AB 2/.000 32/.913 431/338 .285/.413/.539/.952 .937/.956 .984 94/.821 4/1 19/
46.Ellsbury* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/2.000 2/4.000 ··· 439/338 .272/.335/.376/.710 .706/.712 .768 75/.663 38/7 7/
25.Lowell G/S/vP 4/.250 4/2.417 4/1.417 ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/.789 422/333 .271/.334/.448/.782 .834/.769 .793 94/.498 1/2 14/
12.Lowrie# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 2/1.500 ··· 133/87 .281/.344/.421/.765 .937/.670 .739 80/.785 0/0 1/
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 1/.000 19/.734 2/.500 3/.000 ··· 3/1.667 2/.500 6/1.500 314/243 .253/.350/.457/.808 .642/.856 .958 68/.694 1/0 14/
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 1/.000 5/.600 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.667 2/2.500 3/1.667 534/408 .313/.358/.451/.809 .890/.784 .772 100/.778 12/1 10/
33.Varitek# G/S/vP 3/.000 16/.750 2/4.000 12/.555 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 361/274 .216/.305/.345/.650 .721/.627 .715 73/.635 0/0 8/
20.Youkilis G/S/vP 3/.000 6/.167 2/2.000 2/2.000 ··· 2/.500 2/1.000 3/.000 465/379 .315/.383/.551/.934 1.055/.908 .950 92/.940 3/4 20/
IP 112.0 37.1 47.2 45.2 17.0 35.2 66.0 65.2 TOTAL .278/.354/.439/.793 .824/.785 .835 .732 88/23 125/66
ERA-K/9 4.82/4.3 5.79/7.7 3.21/10.9 3.15/5.1 5.82/5.3 7.82/6.1 3.82/4.9 4.66/6.2 5.33/5.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cash (31-15-12)
 Varitek (46-13-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 474/.263 178/.248 201/.213 175/.201 74/.292 181/.342 279/.273 285/.267 .288  Drew
 Bay
 Ellsbury
 Crisp
 Youkilis
0/1/99/6
115/0/0/4
54/51/15/3
0/83/0/3
0/0/2/0
OPS .797 .822 .671 .598 .818 .963 .752 .712 .823
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 244/.790 87/.651 99/.663 69/.542 35/1.019 86/.877 133/.862 138/.777 .854
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 230/.803 91/.994 102/.679 106/.634 39/.637 95/1.037 146/.650 147/.652 .796
Road 195/.811 92/.828 104/.550 75/.623 40/.929 102/1.124 153/.797 143/.671 .826
Last 28d days 98/.844 12/1.167 34/.471 45/.739 41/.774 87/.962 55/.679 56/.971
HR/SB/CS 16/17/3 6/1/0 6/6/1 3/3/0 2/2/0 5/4/1 4/0/1 4/8/1 135/90/29
Usage ····X··· ··X··X·· ··o····o ·X····XX ·o·X·X·· ···X···· ··X···X· ·o··X·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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