CLE @ CHW, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Game Preview

Cleveland Indians, 22-23, 3rd, 2½ GB, 4½ GB in WC	SP: Paul Byrd (37, RHP, 2-3, 3.61) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (2-3) 47.1 48 22 19 5 22 10 3.61 2007 (15-8) 192.1 239 107 98 28 88 27 4.59 2006 (10-9) 179 232 120 97 38 88 26 4.88 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-2 43 40 17 16 3 22 10 3.35 54 2008-05-13 OAK W 7.1 5 0 0 0 7 0 92 75 2008-05-08 @NYY L 6.1 8 5 5 0 0 3 81 37 2008-05-01 SEA ND 7.2 4 0 0 1 4 0 87 74 2008-04-25 NYY W 5.2 6 4 4 0 0 3 77 41 2008-04-20 @MIN ND 7 6 1 1 0 3 1 80 64 2008-04-15 BOS ND 6 6 1 0 0 6 0 78 64 2008-04-09 @LAA L 3 5 6 6 2 2 3 43 25 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CHW 3-0 33 30 11 11 9 13 4 3.00 55 2007-09-11 @CHW W 6.1 6 3 3 1 1 2 96 49 2007-09-01 CHW W 9 4 0 0 2 3 0 110 80 2007-07-17 CHW ND 6 6 4 4 2 3 1 99 45 2007-04-14 CHW W 6 5 0 0 2 5 0 89 65 2006-09-08 @CHW ND 5.2 9 4 4 2 1 1 92 34
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 14-12 Road: 8-11 ExtrInn: 1-2 vsRHP: 16-18 vsLHP: 6-5 1-Run: 4-4 vsEast: 7-6 vsCntrl: 7-7 vsWest: 8-7 IL: 0-3 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 45 Tue, May 20 @CHW L 1-4 22-23 3rd 2.5 gb 44 Sun, May 18 @CIN L 4-6 22-22 2nd 1.5 gb 43 Sat, May 17 @CIN L 2-4 22-21 2nd 0.5 gb 42 Fri, May 16 @CIN L 3-4 22-20 1st 0.5 up 41 Thu, May 15 OAK W 4-2 22-19 1st 1.5 up 40 Wed, May 14 OAK W 2-0 21-19 1st 0.5 up 39 Tue, May 13 OAK W 4-0 20-19 2nd 0.5 gb 38 Mon, May 12 TOR L 0-3 (10) 19-19 2nd 1.5 gb 37 Mon, May 12 TOR W 3-0 19-18 2nd 1.5 gb 36 Sat, May 10 TOR W 12-0 18-18 3rd 0.5 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20:10-10 Last 30:17-13
Chicago White Sox, 24-20, 1st, 1½ up	SP: Javier Vazquez (31, RHP, 4-3, 3.53) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (4-3) 58.2 60 24 23 12 58 3 3.53 2007 (15-8) 216.2 197 95 90 50 213 29 3.74 2006 (11-12) 202.2 206 116 109 56 184 23 4.84 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-2 46.2 48 17 16 7 44 3 3.09 57 2008-05-15 @LAA ND 6.2 9 3 2 0 6 0 111 52 2008-05-10 @SEA W 5.2 6 4 4 1 6 1 87 46 2008-05-05 @TOR L 7.2 8 1 1 1 9 1 121 67 2008-04-28 BAL ND 8 4 1 1 1 7 1 100 76 2008-04-23 NYY L 5.1 10 6 6 3 3 0 104 24 2008-04-18 @TBR W 6.1 6 2 2 1 4 0 104 56 2008-04-13 DET W 7 5 0 0 0 9 0 92 76 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CLE 2-3 29.2 33 18 16 11 40 2 4.85 50 2008-04-02 @CLE L 5 5 4 4 4 6 0 103 43 2007-09-12 CLE W 6.1 6 2 1 1 9 0 114 63 2007-09-01 @CLE L 6 8 4 3 1 6 1 105 47 2007-04-13 @CLE W 5.1 8 2 2 3 7 0 112 48 2006-09-26 @CLE L 7 6 6 6 2 12 1 111 51
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 10-7 Road: 14-13 ExtrInn: 0-1 vsRHP: 15-16 vsLHP: 9-4 1-Run: 4-5 vsEast: 6-9 vsCntrl:10-7 vsWest: 5-4 IL: 3-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 45 Tue, May 20 CLE W 4-1 24-20 1st 1.5 up 44 Sun, May 18 @SFG W 13-8 23-20 1st 1.5 up 43 Sat, May 17 @SFG W 3-1 22-20 1st 0.5 up 42 Fri, May 16 @SFG W 2-0 21-20 2nd 0.5 gb 41 Thu, May 15 @LAA W 4-3 20-20 2nd 1.5 gb 40 Wed, May 14 @LAA W 6-1 19-20 3rd 1.5 gb 39 Tue, May 13 @LAA L 0-2 18-20 3rd 2.0 gb 38 Mon, May 12 @LAA L 7-10 18-19 3rd 2.0 gb 37 Sun, May 11 @SEA L 3-6 18-18 2nd 1.0 gb 36 Sat, May 10 @SEA W 8-4 18-17 1st Tied Last 10: 7-3 Last 20:10-10 Last 30:15-14
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Tue, May 20, 2008 CHW 4 CLE 1 W:Jose Contreras (5-3), L: C.C. Sabathia (3-6), S: Bobby Jenks (11) Thu, Apr 03, 2008 CHW 2 @CLE 1 W:Octavio Dotel (1-1), L: Jake Westbrook (0-1), S: Bobby Jenks (1) Wed, Apr 02, 2008 CLE 7 CHW 2 W:Fausto Carmona (1-0), L: Javier Vazquez (0-1), S: none Mon, Mar 31, 2008 CLE 10 CHW 8 W:Rafael Betancourt (1-0), L: Octavio Dotel (0-1), S: Joe Borowski (1) Wed, Sep 12, 2007 CHW 7 CLE 4 W:Javier Vazquez (12-8), L: Jake Westbrook (5-9), S: none Tue, Sep 11, 2007 CLE 8 @CHW 3 W:Paul Byrd (15-6), L: Lance Broadway (0-1), S: none Mon, Sep 10, 2007 CLE 6 @CHW 2 W:Fausto Carmona (16-8), L: Gavin Floyd (1-3), S: none Sun, Sep 02, 2007 CHW 8 @CLE 0 W:Jose Contreras (8-16), L: Jake Westbrook (5-8), S: none Sat, Sep 01, 2007 CLE 7 CHW 0 W:Paul Byrd (14-5), L: Javier Vazquez (11-8), S: none Fri, Aug 31, 2007 CLE 8 CHW 5 W:Aaron Fultz (4-2), L: Mike MacDougal (1-5), S: Rafael Betancourt (1) Season Series: 2008 - Tied 2-2; 2007 - CLE won 11-7; 2006 - CLE won 11-8; All-Time - CHW leads 996-964

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

CHC 5.74

DET 4.53

SDP 3.30

RA/G

CLE 3.58

MIN 4.47

TEX 5.57

C. Jones .409

R. Howard .183

OBP

A. Pujols .486

K. Greene .270

SLG

L. Berkman .776

O. Cabrera .292

OPS

L. Berkman 1.244

O. Cabrera .569

ERA

E. Volquez 1.33

J. Blanton 3.87

K. Rogers 6.65

K/9IP

E. Volquez 10.28

P. Maholm 6.37

J. Garland 2.01

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Cleveland Indians Batters (4.09 RS/G) vs. Chicago White Sox Pitchers (3.87 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 33.Vazquez
G/S/vB 56.Buehrle*
G/S/vB 52.Contreras
G/S/vB 50.Danks*
G/S/vB 26.Dotel
G/S/vB 34.Floyd
G/S/vB 45.Jenks
G/S/vB 71.Linebrink
G/S/vB 57.Logan*
G/S/vB 46.Masset
G/S/vB 37.Thornton*
G/S/vB 43.Wassermann
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

23.Aubrey* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/4 .200/.200/.800/1.000 .000/1.250 1.000 5/1.000 0/0 1/

1.Blake G/S/vP 26/.619 61/.717 27/.813 12/.667 9/1.015 ··· 12/.417 1/.000 5/1.850 8/1.071 5/1.800 1/.000 144/119 .228/.315/.378/.693 .376/.759 .982 77/.659 1/0 3/

13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 9/1.250 1/.000 6/.833 5/.000 1/.000 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 4/1.500 1/.000 144/115 .177/.270/.242/.511 .351/.559 .560 75/.489 1/1 1/

7.Carroll G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/4.000 4/1.750 ··· 6/.833 ··· ··· ··· ··· 80/55 .200/.333/.231/.564 .718/.488 .503 51/.414 3/0 0/

20.Dellucci* G/S/vP 27/.929 ··· 11/.808 ··· 7/.715 ··· 3/1.167 4/1.500 ··· 2/.500 6/1.500 ··· 125/119 .227/.312/.382/.694 .167/.719 .810 77/.574 1/0 4/

12.Francisco G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 51/43 .340/.373/.532/.904 .750/.936 .945 50/.923 1/2 1/

25.Garko G/S/vP 18/.977 14/1.464 10/.522 14/1.429 1/.000 3/1.167 5/1.400 ··· 2/2.000 5/.000 5/1.100 2/.000 161/130 .243/.335/.386/.721 .994/.660 .637 78/.563 0/0 4/

38.Gutierrez G/S/vP 12/1.400 9/1.333 1/.000 10/1.178 2/.500 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/.666 3/2.000 1/.000 4/.000 135/100 .232/.273/.336/.609 .683/.582 .400 66/.565 3/1 2/

48.Hafner* G/S/vP 22/.490 50/.819 32/.469 14/.690 5/2.000 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 6/1.834 4/.500 13/.840 ··· 166/125 .221/.327/.364/.692 .815/.651 .680 80/.708 1/1 4/

15.Marte G/S/vP 8/.700 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 2/.500 5/.000 ··· ··· 30/25 .115/.179/.115/.294 .933/.174 .490 21/.255 0/1 0/

41.Martinez# G/S/vP 22/.495 47/.884 29/.327 6/.834 4/.250 3/.666 4/.750 3/.000 9/.619 7/.829 13/.885 1/no AB 145/109 .306/.352/.366/.717 1.033/.603 .583 89/.690 0/0 0/

2.Peralta G/S/vP 21/.340 41/.627 21/.586 13/.749 3/1.334 3/.000 7/.286 ··· 4/.000 8/1.000 6/.000 ··· 155/122 .225/.279/.430/.709 .851/.669 .943 79/.642 2/0 8/

10.Shoppach G/S/vP 8/.393 2/2.500 2/.500 5/.250 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 61/42 .236/.300/.327/.627 .444/.712 .573 31/.499 0/0 1/

24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 33/.875 46/.703 30/.944 14/.220 3/3.000 3/.666 5/1.000 3/.666 9/.222 8/.000 13/1.458 2/2.000 196/143 .261/.372/.448/.821 .716/.857 .636 103/.919 9/2 7/

IP 58.2 54.2 59.2 52.0 18.0 49.1 19.1 19.1 15.0 21.0 16.1 3.1 TOTAL .234/.314/.362/.676 .699/.669 .679 .648 23/9 36/21

ERA-K/9

3.53/8.9

5.27/5.6

3.17/4.8

2.94/6.6

4.00/14.0

2.92/4.0

1.86/5.6

1.40/5.6

3.00/7.8

3.86/9.0

3.86/11.0

29.70/5.5

3.60/6.8

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Martinez (13-10-1)
Shoppach (1-2-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 246/.263 238/.318 244/.234 215/.239 83/.232 203/.192 74/.221 76/.211 64/.300 90/.234 65/.158 25/.591 .250 Francisco
Gutierrez
Sizemore
Carroll
Dellucci 6/0/10/2
1/3/35/1
0/43/0/1
1/0/0/0
35/0/0/0

OPS .706 .838 .600 .604 .658 .646 .594 .587 .717 .727 .474 1.352 .678

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 118/.875 48/.773 123/.668 54/.518 24/.890 96/.838 37/.594 39/.402 34/.647 38/.837 28/.577 5/1.600 .728

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 128/.553 190/.854 121/.533 161/.633 59/.568 107/.485 37/.594 37/.770 30/.795 52/.647 37/.398 20/1.279 .646

Home 110/.650 82/.814 105/.639 89/.634 36/.629 82/.408 34/.617 33/.777 23/.870 37/1.062 29/.481 7/1.657 .673

Last 28d days 140/.767 138/.761 138/.514 122/.700 54/.502 130/.733 43/.622 48/.606 36/.818 47/.659 36/.410 25/1.352

HR/SB/CS 3/2/0 5/1/2 2/8/1 3/5/3 1/5/0 5/10/1 1/3/0 1/1/0 0/0/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 0/1/0 23/37/8

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

Chicago White Sox Batters (4.60 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (3.58 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 36.Byrd
G/S/vB 63.Betancourt
G/S/vB 58.Breslow*
G/S/vB 55.Carmona
G/S/vB 44.Julio
G/S/vB 30.Kobayashi
G/S/vB 32.Laffey*
G/S/vB 31.Lee*
G/S/vB 50.Lewis
G/S/vB 53.Perez*
G/S/vB 52.Sabathia*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

32.Anderson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 13/.154 ··· ··· 17/.313 54/49 .260/.315/.380/.695 1.850/.590 .802 40/.819 0/1 1/

18.Cabrera G/S/vP 28/.254 6/.000 ··· 3/.667 2/.500 1/2.000 3/1.167 19/.649 3/.666 ··· 24/.477 197/151 .219/.277/.292/.569 .596/.560 .552 113/.490 5/1 3/

24.Crede G/S/vP 15/.666 15/.500 ··· 6/1.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 23/.800 2/.500 ··· 40/.384 161/129 .275/.348/.507/.855 .391/.973 .854 87/.785 0/1 8/

23.Dye G/S/vP 24/.667 14/.895 1/.000 16/1.171 8/.250 ··· 3/1.167 25/.829 3/.666 4/.250 55/1.023 165/126 .298/.345/.490/.836 .855/.826 .853 88/.746 0/1 6/

44.Hall G/S/vP 4/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 9/.222 ··· ··· 17/.941 1/.000 ··· 21/.564 34/23 .294/.294/.353/.647 .727/.609 .462 21/.857 0/0 0/

14.Konerko G/S/vP 33/.864 19/.983 ··· 9/1.667 5/.000 ··· 3/.000 42/1.125 4/.000 6/.733 74/.628 181/138 .215/.343/.356/.698 .782/.672 .865 104/.679 1/0 5/

38.Ozuna G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 12/.334 1/2.000 ··· 32/.986 40/30 .243/.263/.243/.506 .733/.429 .667 27/.509 0/0 0/

12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 31/.447 9/.555 ··· 14/1.000 9/2.792 ··· 3/2.667 26/.968 2/.000 3/.000 20/.350 155/122 .308/.361/.483/.844 .710/.881 .772 89/.740 0/0 3/

20.Quentin G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/3.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 3/1.666 180/144 .302/.417/.604/1.021 1.067/1.010 1.051 109/1.111 4/2 12/

10.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 6/.900 63/44 .207/.246/.310/.556 .816/.439 .427 42/.643 1/1 1/

30.Swisher# G/S/vP 21/.714 6/.733 1/.000 12/.917 3/2.667 1/.000 ··· 12/1.139 2/1.000 1/5.000 22/.777 185/139 .208/.335/.331/.666 .729/.644 .603 104/.594 1/2 4/

25.Thome* G/S/vP 32/.906 9/.000 1/2.000 19/.635 3/.000 ··· 3/.333 23/.737 4/.750 7/.000 20/1.006 172/128 .206/.349/.418/.767 .982/.685 .677 95/.700 1/0 8/

5.Uribe G/S/vP 17/1.544 13/.802 ··· 13/1.333 4/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 37/.838 4/.000 2/.000 48/.548 128/107 .198/.262/.328/.589 .554/.597 .606 58/.683 0/0 3/

IP 47.1 16.0 8.0 56.0 14.2 19.2 26.2 59.1 25.1 19.0 61.1 TOTAL .247/.332/.409/.741 .762/.735 .738 .719 13/9 54/26

ERA-K/9

3.61/4.2

7.31/7.9

2.25/7.9

2.25/3.5

3.07/7.3

3.20/5.9

1.35/4.7

1.37/7.0

3.55/6.4

3.32/8.1

5.14/9.5

3.38/6.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Hall (10-3-0)
Pierzynski (27-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 191/.262 74/.343 38/.273 241/.243 58/.196 82/.266 105/.184 215/.202 116/.260 83/.274 271/.281 .253 Swisher
Quentin
Ramirez
Dye
Anderson 3/29/7/2
43/0/0/2
0/9/0/1
0/0/39/1
0/18/2/0

OPS .736 .927 .671 .663 .607 .685 .432 .494 .762 .737 .796 .698

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 110/.951 38/.624 10/.733 130/.669 26/.755 36/.848 37/.191 64/.505 52/.727 39/.520 70/.895 .716

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 81/.451 36/1.224 28/.649 111/.655 32/.491 46/.556 68/.567 151/.489 64/.791 44/.920 201/.761 .685

Road 94/.937 25/.768 9/.476 105/.684 30/.385 24/.942 / 133/.474 40/.757 52/.750 78/.735 .708

Last 28d days 100/.684 35/.992 14/1.038 142/.683 15/.205 49/.691 105/.432 140/.612 66/.649 42/.650 149/.617

HR/SB/CS 10/0/3 4/3/0 0/2/0 1/4/1 1/0/0 3/1/0 0/0/1 3/0/0 2/1/0 2/0/3 8/3/1 43/14/12

Usage ·······X ·····X·· ········ ···X···· ··o·o··· ···X·o·X ·····X·· ··X····· X·o·XX·· ··XoX··o 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: CLE @ CHW, 8:11pm, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @U.S. Cellular Field

SP: Paul Byrd (37, RHP, 2-3, 3.61)

SP: Javier Vazquez (31, RHP, 4-3, 3.53)

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