LAA @ CHW, Friday, September 5, 2008 Game Preview

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 85-54, 1st, 17 up	SP: Dustin Moseley (26, RHP, 1-3, 7.15) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (1-3) 34 47 27 27 13 25 5 7.15 2007 (4-3) 92 97 45 45 27 50 7 4.40 2006 (1-0) 11 22 11 11 2 3 3 9.00 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 1-2 34 44 22 22 14 25 4 5.82 42 2008-07-13 @OAK ND 5.1 4 2 2 1 4 0 81 55 2008-04-26 @DET ND 5 6 3 3 2 5 0 92 46 2008-04-20 SEA L 4.2 8 4 4 2 3 1 90 33 2008-04-15 @TEX ND 4 7 4 4 5 1 0 83 28 2008-04-09 CLE W 6 9 4 4 1 5 2 95 42 2008-04-04 TEX L 5 6 5 5 2 4 1 91 37 2007-09-25 @TEX ND 4 4 0 0 1 3 0 63 56 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CHW Has never faced CHW.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 43-28 Road: 42-26 ExtrInn: 3-4 vsRHP: 60-41 vsLHP: 25-13 1-Run: 27-19 vsEast: 28-15 vsCntrl:23-15 vsWest: 24-16 IL:10-8 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 139 Thu, Sep 4 @DET W 7-1 85-54 1st 17.0 up 138 Wed, Sep 3 @DET L 6-9 84-54 1st 16.5 up 137 Tue, Sep 2 @DET W 5-4 84-53 1st 17.5 up 136 Sun, Aug 31 TEX L 3-4 83-53 1st 17.0 up 135 Sat, Aug 30 TEX W 4-3 83-52 1st 18.0 up 134 Fri, Aug 29 TEX W 3-1 82-52 1st 17.0 up 133 Thu, Aug 28 TEX W 7-5 81-52 1st 16.0 up 132 Wed, Aug 27 OAK L 5-6 80-52 1st 15.0 up 131 Tue, Aug 26 OAK W 5-1 80-51 1st 16.0 up 130 Mon, Aug 25 OAK L 1-2 79-51 1st 16.0 up Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:10-10 Last 30:16-14
Chicago White Sox, 78-61, 1st, 1½ up	SP: Mark Buehrle (29, LHP, 11-11, 4.12) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. ANA Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (11-11) 179.1 201 96 82 42 110 19 4.12 2007 (10-9) 201 208 86 81 45 115 22 3.63 2006 (12-13) 204 247 124 113 48 98 36 4.99 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-3 40.1 59 31 27 8 29 7 6.02 40 2008-08-30 @BOS L 4.2 11 7 7 1 3 1 82 16 2008-08-24 TBR ND 6.2 6 5 2 2 5 1 109 51 2008-08-18 SEA W 5.2 11 5 5 2 5 1 100 30 2008-08-13 KCR W 7 5 0 0 0 5 0 101 72 2008-08-08 BOS W 7 4 1 1 2 8 0 110 71 2008-08-02 @KCR L 4.1 14 8 8 0 1 2 85 4 2008-07-28 @MIN L 5 8 5 4 1 2 2 94 34 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.ANA 0-2 31 45 24 21 8 22 7 6.10 39 2008-05-12 @LAA L 5.2 10 8 6 1 6 1 102 26 2007-09-16 LAA ND 6.1 11 7 6 2 3 2 106 26 2007-05-06 @LAA ND 6 7 3 3 3 3 1 109 46 2007-04-29 LAA L 6 9 3 3 1 8 2 102 49 2006-09-12 @LAA ND 7 8 3 3 1 2 1 91 50
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 46-22 Road: 32-39 ExtrInn: 7-3 vsRHP: 49-44 vsLHP: 29-17 1-Run: 19-14 vsEast: 13-20 vsCntrl:37-23 vsWest: 16-12 IL:12-6 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 139 Wed, Sep 3 @CLE W 4-2 78-61 1st 1.0 up 138 Tue, Sep 2 @CLE L 3-9 77-61 1st Tied 137 Mon, Sep 1 @CLE L 0-5 77-60 1st Tied 136 Sun, Aug 31 @BOS W 4-2 77-59 1st 0.5 up 135 Sat, Aug 30 @BOS L 2-8 76-59 1st 0.5 up 134 Fri, Aug 29 @BOS L 0-8 76-58 1st 0.5 up 133 Wed, Aug 27 @BAL L 3-11 76-57 1st 1.0 up 132 Tue, Aug 26 @BAL W 8-3 76-56 1st 2.0 up 131 Mon, Aug 25 @BAL W 4-3 75-56 1st 1.0 up 130 Sun, Aug 24 TBR W 6-5 (10) 74-56 1st Tied Last 10: 5-5 Last 20:12-8 Last 30:17-13
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Sun, May 25, 2008 CHW 3 LAA 2 W:Scott Linebrink (2-0), L: John Lackey (1-1), S: none Sat, May 24, 2008 LAA 2 @CHW 0 W:Jered Weaver (4-5), L: John Danks (3-4), S: Francisco Rodriguez (21) Fri, May 23, 2008 LAA 3 @CHW 1 W:Joe Saunders (8-1), L: Gavin Floyd (4-3), S: Francisco Rodriguez (20) Thu, May 15, 2008 CHW 4 @LAA 3 W:Octavio Dotel (2-2), L: Francisco Rodriguez (0-1), S: Bobby Jenks (8) Wed, May 14, 2008 CHW 6 @LAA 1 W:Jose Contreras (4-3), L: Scot Shields (2-1), S: none Tue, May 13, 2008 LAA 2 CHW 0 W:Scot Shields (2-0), L: Octavio Dotel (1-2), S: Francisco Rodriguez (16) Mon, May 12, 2008 LAA 10 CHW 7 W:Nick Adenhart (1-0), L: Mark Buehrle (1-5), S: Francisco Rodriguez (15) Sun, Sep 16, 2007 CHW 9 LAA 7 W:Mike MacDougal (2-5), L: Dustin Moseley (4-3), S: none Sat, Sep 15, 2007 LAA 2 @CHW 1 W:Jered Weaver (12-7), L: Jon Garland (9-12), S: Francisco Rodriguez (35) Fri, Sep 14, 2007 CHW 5 LAA 3 W:Jose Contreras (9-16), L: Bartolo Colon (6-7), S: Bobby Jenks (38) Season Series: 2008 - LAA leads 4-3; 2007 - CHW won 5-4; 2006 - CHW won 6-3; All-Time - Tied 329-329

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 5.45

FLA 4.66

WSN 3.86

RA/G

TOR 3.85

CLE 4.59

TEX 5.93

A. Pujols .360

B. Hawpe .292

J. Towles .143

OBP

A. Pujols .468

S. Schumaker .365

T. Pena .184

SLG

A. Pujols .640

M. DeRosa .488

T. Pena .209

OPS

A. Pujols 1.108

C. Delgado .842

T. Pena .393

ERA

C. Lee 2.32

G. Meche 4.07

C. Silva 6.53

K/9IP

T. Lincecum 10.22

J. Lester 6.39

L. Hernandez 3.35

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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Batters (4.65 RS/G) vs. Chicago White Sox Pitchers (4.41 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 56.Buehrle*
G/S/vB 41.Broadway
G/S/vB 53.Carrasco
G/S/vB 26.Dotel
G/S/vB 45.Jenks
G/S/vB 71.Linebrink
G/S/vB 57.Logan*
G/S/vB 47.MacDougal
G/S/vB 49.Ramirez*
G/S/vB 61.Russell
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

16.Anderson* G/S/vP 43/.721 ··· 6/.834 4/1.000 4/1.000 3/.000 1/2.000 4/.500 6/.500 ··· 6/.334 ··· 512/404 .281/.316/.429/.746 .700/.758 .701 88/.694 6/3 14/

2.Aybar# G/S/vP 7/1.167 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 335/233 .277/.316/.384/.700 .720/.692 .774 65/.633 6/2 3/

28.Budde G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ .000 / 0/0 0/

9.Figgins# G/S/vP 30/.355 ··· 6/.933 4/.833 4/.833 1/.000 1/no AB 1/no AB 4/.750 ··· 6/.533 ··· 457/341 .280/.374/.318/.692 .707/.686 .691 107/.651 30/11 0/

27.Guerrero G/S/vP 25/1.392 ··· 2/1.000 21/.983 5/.650 4/.000 2/.500 6/.533 12/1.833 ··· 3/.666 1/2.000 538/403 .294/.355/.503/.858 .739/.899 .891 97/.916 4/3 23/

48.Hunter G/S/vP 77/.598 ··· 12/.432 5/.650 8/.708 3/.666 4/.500 14/.917 7/.858 ··· 7/.762 2/1.000 542/402 .283/.347/.480/.827 .811/.832 .780 105/.773 13/5 20/

5.Mathis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 300/216 .195/.281/.332/.613 .775/.553 .631 41/.306 2/1 9/

24.Matthews# G/S/vP 29/.738 ··· 6/.000 7/.629 3/3.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 6/.167 ··· 410/292 .236/.315/.345/.660 .740/.627 .691 32/.955 7/3 7/

19.Morales# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 13/12 .250/.308/.250/.558 2.000/.432 .583 12/.606 0/0 0/

44.Napoli G/S/vP 9/.619 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/.500 2/.500 ··· 1/no AB ··· 220/173 .214/.329/.473/.801 .840/.790 .784 51/.875 4/1 14/

39.Quinlan G/S/vP 25/1.315 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 134/69 .279/.336/.328/.664 .676/.652 .614 19/.964 2/1 1/

21.Rivera G/S/vP 26/.693 ··· 2/1.000 6/1.417 4/.750 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 6/1.333 ··· 2/.000 ··· 238/158 .240/.273/.419/.692 .671/.703 .679 81/.746 1/1 10/

18.Rodriguez G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 112/84 .192/.264/.263/.526 .426/.558 .446 39/.537 2/0 1/

25.Teixeira# G/S/vP 31/.939 ··· 6/1.100 6/1.300 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 5/1.100 6/.900 ··· 7/.429 ··· 596/392 .307/.409/.544/.953 .924/.968 .861 109/1.187 2/0 29/

77.Willits# G/S/vP 11/.637 ··· ··· ··· 6/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 97/82 .176/.326/.216/.542 .457/.555 .374 11/.311 1/0 0/

3.Wood G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 94/73 .167/.194/.222/.416 .308/.445 .420 26/.577 1/0 1/

IP 179.1 10.2 31.1 60.0 51.0 39.0 41.0 11.0 31.2 24.1 55.2 16.1 TOTAL .266/.328/.406/.733 .741/.730 .724 .762 105/38 130/78

ERA-K/9

4.12/5.5

8.44/4.2

3.16/7.2

3.75/12.2

1.76/5.1

2.31/7.6

5.49/9.0

1.64/7.4

3.69/3.4

4.81/8.1

2.75/10.7

8.27/3.9

4.00/7.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Budde (0-0-0)
Mathis (53-19-3)
Napoli (45-9-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 761/.284 52/.354 123/.185 264/.216 197/.218 150/.208 190/.306 50/.220 136/.280 107/.266 225/.202 87/.347 .260 Anderson
Guerrero
Matthews
Hunter
Rivera
Morales
Willits
Quinlan 72/0/0/8
0/0/90/7
33/21/36/5
0/120/0/4
35/1/15/4
0/0/1/0
18/6/18/0
1/0/3/0

OPS .764 1.050 .526 .699 .573 .594 .830 .653 .684 .701 .573 .940 .727

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 207/.828 23/1.035 49/.382 84/.794 103/.573 71/.569 104/.757 17/.769 53/.775 55/.789 111/.479 26/1.007 .756

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 554/.740 29/1.058 74/.626 180/.654 94/.572 79/.617 86/.919 33/.593 83/.625 52/.612 114/.661 61/.911 .706

Home 391/.663 24/.564 67/.391 125/.615 107/.572 86/.589 84/.875 18/.603 94/.661 73/.599 113/.624 19/1.365 .685

Last 28d days 137/.792 52/1.050 58/.494 45/1.125 41/.463 / 10/1.675 9/.472 32/.898 54/.609 39/.576 6/.650

HR/SB/CS 19/5/5 3/0/1 1/2/2 10/15/1 1/5/0 5/2/0 4/3/1 0/0/0 1/5/0 1/0/0 5/4/0 0/5/1 126/121/28

Usage ·····X·· ······X· ··X··oo· ·oo·XX·· ·o··X··· ········ ··oo···· ··Xo···· ······o· ···X··o· ·X··oo·· ···X····

Chicago White Sox Batters (5.04 RS/G) vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Pitchers (4.19 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 58.Moseley
G/S/vB 66.Arredondo
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/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

32.Anderson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 167/99 .236/.273/.439/.712 .854/.612 .841 15/.624 4/1 7/

18.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 7/.429 4/.000 3/2.333 19/.610 622/450 .274/.327/.362/.690 .774/.659 .709 106/.797 18/4 7/

24.Crede G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 10/.300 8/1.196 4/.583 373/281 .248/.314/.460/.773 .353/.910 .878 24/.513 0/3 17/

23.Dye G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 16/.976 19/.833 23/.304 14/1.029 543/385 .292/.346/.565/.911 .853/.933 1.004 94/.815 3/2 32/

22.Fields G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 28/19 .200/.286/.240/.526 .944/.328 3/.667 0/0 0/

39.Getz* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/5 .286/.286/.286/.571 1.000/.400 .667 7/.571 1/1 0/

17.Griffey* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 26/.519 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.666 509/342 .246/.354/.418/.771 .651/.831 .791 65/.713 0/1 16/

44.Hall G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/1.250 5/.200 3/1.000 6/.733 122/72 .265/.314/.319/.633 .929/.422 .510 24/.467 0/0 1/

14.Konerko G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 11/1.122 10/.633 11/.495 14/.793 441/307 .239/.349/.392/.742 .680/.768 .890 79/.968 2/0 13/

7.Owens* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 4/4 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 4/.000 0/0 0/

27.Phillips G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· / /// / / / /

12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/1.250 10/.844 7/.953 6/.666 490/365 .289/.320/.431/.751 .793/.737 .762 85/.775 1/0 12/

20.Quentin G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.167 1/5.000 ··· 569/409 .288/.394/.571/.965 .937/.975 .979 89/1.088 7/3 36/

10.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 415/286 .306/.324/.491/.815 .909/.772 .831 95/.849 10/8 16/

30.Swisher# G/S/vP 7/.453 1/5.000 ··· 3/.333 11/.182 13/.558 12/.361 531/381 .226/.342/.428/.770 .790/.761 .935 82/.814 3/2 23/

25.Thome* G/S/vP 1/5.000 ··· ··· 28/1.081 6/.334 4/.250 3/.000 506/358 .251/.370/.518/.887 .843/.906 .836 83/.847 1/0 29/

5.Uribe G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.000 7/.453 2/.000 269/205 .237/.291/.376/.666 .849/.611 .685 71/.766 1/2 5/

IP 34.0 49.1 37.1 61.1 59.1 53.0 59.0 TOTAL .265/.337/.452/.789 .788/.789 .840 .812 57/28 201/97

ERA-K/9

7.15/6.6

1.46/7.8

4.34/5.8

2.64/5.1

2.43/10.3

2.72/9.0

5.03/7.3

3.88/6.6

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Hall (36-9-1)
Pierzynski (85-19-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 159/.333 198/.200 167/.293 250/.259 248/.200 224/.234 265/.260 .259 Griffey
Quentin
Dye
Swisher
Ramirez
Anderson
Owens 0/15/91/7
130/0/0/5
0/0/127/3
10/70/18/3
0/11/0/1
1/79/2/0
1/1/0/0

OPS .897 .545 .745 .688 .615 .669 .832 .724

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 77/1.031 96/.442 77/.792 103/.749 132/.678 111/.576 120/.978 .735

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 82/.774 102/.644 90/.706 147/.646 116/.546 113/.759 145/.714 .715

Road 65/.761 96/.543 91/.791 107/.860 127/.605 110/.662 139/.854 .728

Last 28d days / 59/.638 / 47/.436 44/.618 47/.690 56/.954

HR/SB/CS 5/3/1 2/3/2 2/2/1 3/5/2 4/7/0 5/6/1 12/7/1 139/98/28

Usage ········ ·Xo··X·· ········ ····X··· ··X··ooo o·X··X·· XX··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: LAA @ CHW, 8:11pm, Friday, September 5, 2008 @U.S. Cellular Field

SP: Dustin Moseley (26, RHP, 1-3, 7.15)

SP: Mark Buehrle (29, LHP, 11-11, 4.12)

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