DET @ CLE, Thursday, April 17, 2008 Game Preview

Detroit Tigers, 5-10, 4th, 4½ GB, 3½ GB in WC	SP: Justin Verlander (25, RHP, 0-2, 6.52) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-2) 19.1 15 19 14 8 13 3 6.52 2007 (18-6) 201.2 181 88 82 67 183 20 3.66 2006 (17-9) 186 187 78 75 60 124 21 3.63 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-3 44 37 31 26 16 37 9 5.32 49 2008-04-12 CHW L 7.2 4 6 6 4 3 1 115 46 2008-04-06 CHW L 5.2 7 9 4 3 4 1 109 30 2008-03-31 KCR ND 6 4 4 4 1 6 1 97 53 2007-09-29 CHW ND 6 4 2 2 2 7 1 117 61 2007-09-23 KCR W 6 5 2 2 2 6 1 104 58 2007-09-18 CLE L 5.2 6 7 7 3 4 4 95 30 2007-09-12 TEX W 7 7 1 1 1 7 0 106 65 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CLE 1-3 27.2 33 26 25 11 27 8 8.13 39 2007-09-18 CLE L 5.2 6 7 7 3 4 4 95 30 2007-08-22 CLE L 4 10 7 7 1 5 0 86 18 2007-07-05 CLE W 7 6 3 2 0 7 1 110 62 2007-05-31 CLE L 5 8 7 7 3 6 2 107 26 2007-05-26 CLE ND 6 3 2 2 4 5 1 105 59
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 2-6 Road: 3-4 ExtrInn: 0-1 vsRHP: 3-9 vsLHP: 2-1 1-Run: 1-1 vsEast: 1-2 vsCntrl: 4-8 vsWest: 0-0 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 15 Wed, Apr 16 @CLE W 13-2 5-10 4th 4.5 gb 14 Tue, Apr 15 MIN W 6-5 4-10 5th 4.5 gb 13 Mon, Apr 14 MIN W 11-9 3-10 5th 5.0 gb 12 Sun, Apr 13 @CHW L 0-11 2-10 5th 5.5 gb 11 Sat, Apr 12 @CHW L 0-7 2-9 5th 4.5 gb 10 Fri, Apr 11 @CHW W 5-2 2-8 5th 4.0 gb 9 Thu, Apr 10 @BOS L 6-12 1-8 5th 5.0 gb 8 Wed, Apr 9 @BOS W 7-2 1-7 5th 5.0 gb 7 Tue, Apr 8 @BOS L 0-5 0-7 5th 5.0 gb 6 Sun, Apr 6 CHW L 2-13 0-6 5th 4.0 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20: 5-10 Last 30: 5-10
Cleveland Indians, 5-10, 4th, 4½ GB, 3½ GB in WC	SP: Fausto Carmona (24, RHP, 1-1, 2.20) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (1-1) 16.1 10 5 4 17 8 0 2.20 2007 (19-8) 215 199 78 73 61 137 16 3.06 2006 (1-10) 74.2 88 46 45 31 58 9 5.42 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 5-1 44.1 28 11 9 24 31 2 1.83 61 2008-04-12 OAK L 3.1 2 3 3 8 1 0 82 37 2008-04-07 LAA ND 6 4 1 0 5 3 0 94 60 2008-04-02 CHW W 7 4 1 1 4 4 0 108 65 2007-09-26 SEA W 7 7 3 3 0 4 2 113 55 2007-09-21 OAK W 6 5 1 1 4 7 0 106 61 2007-09-15 KCR W 8 3 0 0 0 9 0 103 85 2007-09-10 CHW W 7 3 2 1 3 3 0 102 65 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.DET 3-1 35 31 13 12 6 27 3 3.09 59 2007-08-21 DET L 8 3 2 2 0 5 2 77 73 2007-08-15 DET W 8 4 2 1 2 10 0 104 76 2007-06-01 DET ND 6 10 5 5 0 5 1 91 37 2007-05-27 DET W 7 9 3 3 2 3 0 101 48 2006-04-15 DET W 6 5 1 1 2 4 0 88 60
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 3-6 Road: 2-4 ExtrInn: 0-0 vsRHP: 4-5 vsLHP: 1-5 1-Run: 2-1 vsEast: 0-2 vsCntrl: 2-2 vsWest: 3-6 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 15 Wed, Apr 16 DET L 2-13 5-10 4th 4.5 gb 14 Tue, Apr 15 BOS L 3-5 5-9 4th 3.5 gb 13 Mon, Apr 14 BOS L 4-6 5-8 4th 3.0 gb 12 Sun, Apr 13 OAK W 7-1 5-7 4th 2.5 gb 11 Sat, Apr 12 OAK L 3-7 4-7 4th 2.5 gb 10 Fri, Apr 11 OAK L 7-9 4-6 4th 2.0 gb 9 Wed, Apr 9 @LAA L 5-9 4-5 3rd 2.5 gb 8 Tue, Apr 8 @LAA W 4-3 4-4 3rd 1.5 gb 7 Mon, Apr 7 @LAA L 4-6 3-4 3rd 2.0 gb 6 Sun, Apr 6 @OAK W 2-1 3-3 3rd 1.0 gb Last 10: 3-7 Last 20: 5-10 Last 30: 5-10
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Wed, Apr 16, 2008 DET 13 @CLE 2 W:Armando Galarraga (1-0), L: C.C. Sabathia (0-3), S: none Wed, Sep 19, 2007 CLE 4 DET 2 W:C.C. Sabathia (18-7), L: Nate Robertson (8-12), S: Joe Borowski (42) Tue, Sep 18, 2007 CLE 7 DET 4 W:Jensen Lewis (1-1), L: Justin Verlander (17-6), S: Joe Borowski (41) Mon, Sep 17, 2007 CLE 6 DET 5 (11) W:Rafael Betancourt (5-1), L: Zach Miner (3-4), S: none Thu, Aug 23, 2007 CLE 3 @DET 1 (10) W:Rafael Perez (1-1), L: Joel Zumaya (1-2), S: Joe Borowski (36) Wed, Aug 22, 2007 CLE 11 @DET 8 W:Paul Byrd (12-5), L: Justin Verlander (13-5), S: Joe Borowski (35) Tue, Aug 21, 2007 DET 2 CLE 1 W:Jair Jurrjens (1-1), L: Fausto Carmona (14-8), S: Todd Jones (32) Wed, Aug 15, 2007 CLE 5 DET 2 W:Fausto Carmona (14-7), L: Jair Jurrjens (0-1), S: Joe Borowski (33) Tue, Aug 14, 2007 DET 6 @CLE 2 (10) W:Fernando Rodney (2-5), L: Joe Borowski (2-5), S: none Thu, Jul 05, 2007 DET 12 CLE 3 W:Justin Verlander (10-3), L: C.C. Sabathia (12-3), S: none Season Series: 2008 - DET leads 1-0; 2007 - CLE won 12-6; 2006 - DET won 13-6; All-Time - DET leads 1022-998

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.

Detroit Tigers Batters (4.20 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (5.60 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 55.Carmona
G/S/vB 63.Betancourt
G/S/vB 58.Breslow*
G/S/vB 44.Julio
G/S/vB 30.Kobayashi
G/S/vB 50.Lewis
G/S/vB 40.Mastny
G/S/vB 53.Perez*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

24.Cabrera G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 4/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 680/530 .320/.401/.565/.965 1.173/.910 .905 / 2/1 34/23

9.Guillen# G/S/vP 12/.750 14/.572 1/.000 4/2.083 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 630/500 .296/.357/.502/.859 .921/.843 .855 / 13/8 21/25

15.Inge G/S/vP 10/.900 15/.204 1/no AB 4/1.167 ··· 2/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 577/447 .236/.312/.376/.688 .923/.621 .631 / 9/2 14/18

19.Jones* G/S/vP ··· 8/1.125 ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 495/408 .285/.335/.400/.735 .763/.729 .763 / 6/3 5/4

30.Ordonez G/S/vP 15/.904 16/.393 2/2.000 3/1.667 1/.000 2/1.000 6/1.000 1/.000 679/531 .363/.434/.595/1.029 1.213/.980 .937 / 4/1 28/1

14.Polanco G/S/vP 8/.500 8/.875 1/.000 4/.333 ··· 2/2.000 4/1.750 3/.000 641/489 .341/.388/.458/.846 .813/.857 .820 / 7/3 9/0

25.Raburn G/S/vP 5/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 148/84 .304/.340/.507/.847 .759/.912 .868 / 3/0 4/1

8.Renteria G/S/vP 3/.000 3/1.667 ··· 8/.875 ··· ··· 2/no AB 2/3.500 543/347 .332/.390/.470/.860 .918/.827 .864 / 11/2 12/11

7.Rodriguez G/S/vP 8/.875 16/.563 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 2/1.500 4/.250 2/1.000 515/389 .281/.294/.420/.714 .746/.703 .687 / 2/2 11/6

39.Santiago# G/S/vP 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 74/62 .284/.324/.388/.712 1.117/.638 .921 / 3/0 0/2

3.Sheffield G/S/vP 14/.517 5/.400 1/.000 8/1.917 1/2.000 2/.000 5/1.300 2/1.000 593/460 .265/.378/.462/.839 .832/.841 .783 / 22/5 25/0

33.Thames G/S/vP 10/.100 6/.167 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/2.000 1/.000 284/193 .242/.278/.498/.776 .927/.705 .709 / 2/1 18/4

36.Thomas* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

IP 215.0 79.1 62.0 29.1 57.2 60.2 TOTAL .262/.343/.404/.747 .830/.728 .722 .747 9/0 14/10

ERA-K/9

3.06/5.7

1.47/9.1

/0.0

5.23/8.1

/0.0

2.15/10.4

4.68/8.1

1.78/9.2

5.21/6.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Rodriguez (47-21-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 879/.248 289/.183 / 280/.283 / 125/.234 262/.283 236/.187 .282 Jones
Ordonez
Sheffield
Thames
Raburn 2/84/67/8
0/0/143/4
7/0/7/1
37/0/9/1
10/13/16/1

OPS .661 .485 .813 .616 .809 .531 .816

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 482/.711 113/.617 / 115/.624 / 47/.548 103/.861 92/.450 .749

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 397/.601 176/.400 / 165/.942 / 78/.656 159/.777 144/.580 .860

Home 435/.650 136/.480 / 136/.692 / 65/.738 127/.841 120/.561 .860

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

HR/SB/CS 16/13/5 4/4/4 // 8/12/2 // 1/0/1 6/4/2 5/2/1 20/6/1

Usage ····X··· ··Xo·o·· X····X·· Xo···X·X X···oX·X ·X··X··X X······· ·Xo·X···

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

Cleveland Indians Batters (4.20 RS/G) vs. Detroit Tigers Pitchers (6.27 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 35.Verlander
G/S/vB 52.Bautista
G/S/vB 49.Grilli
G/S/vB 59.Jones
G/S/vB 45.Lopez
G/S/vB 31.Miner
G/S/vB 50.Rapada*
G/S/vB 44.Seay*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

1.Blake G/S/vP 22/.912 7/.453 11/.455 12/.639 ··· 5/1.933 ··· 2/3.000 662/473 .270/.339/.437/.776 .827/.757 .706 / 4/5 18/14

13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 5/.650 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· 1/.000 186/136 .283/.354/.421/.775 .950/.702 .704 / 0/0 3/1

7.Carroll G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/no AB ··· ··· ··· 268/150 .225/.317/.300/.616 .705/.543 .527 / 6/2 2/4

20.Dellucci* G/S/vP 6/1.300 ··· 5/2.000 7/.858 ··· ··· ··· ··· 199/173 .230/.296/.382/.679 .481/.709 .608 / 2/1 4/0

25.Garko G/S/vP 15/.871 ··· 5/1.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 541/378 .289/.359/.483/.842 .914/.812 .856 / 0/1 21/8

38.Gutierrez G/S/vP 5/1.600 ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· 6/1.000 ··· ··· 301/198 .266/.318/.472/.790 .920/.722 .974 / 8/3 13/1

48.Hafner* G/S/vP 27/.833 11/1.545 8/.250 8/.393 ··· 3/.000 ··· 8/.661 661/420 .266/.385/.451/.837 .837/.836 .789 / 1/1 24/0

15.Marte G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 60/41 .193/.233/.316/.549 .594/.528 .713 / 0/0 1/4

41.Martinez# G/S/vP 24/1.167 8/.625 4/2.000 7/1.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 4/.500 645/414 .301/.374/.505/.879 .825/.908 .871 / 0/0 25/5

8.Michaels G/S/vP 6/1.333 2/1.000 9/.222 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/5.000 295/139 .270/.324/.397/.721 .800/.636 .782 / 3/4 7/1

2.Peralta G/S/vP 26/.588 5/.500 12/.750 3/1.667 1/.000 6/.900 ··· 3/.000 647/482 .270/.341/.430/.771 .820/.754 .881 / 4/4 21/19

10.Shoppach G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.250 ··· 1/2.000 177/136 .261/.310/.472/.782 1.126/.687 .823 / 0/0 7/4

24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 29/1.013 9/1.222 11/.864 4/.250 ··· 5/.000 ··· 7/1.143 748/503 .277/.390/.462/.852 .812/.872 .906 / 33/10 24/2

IP 201.2 8.2 79.2 61.1 17.1 53.2 2.2 46.1 TOTAL .232/.323/.340/.663 .606/.689 .641 .663 8/2 10/10

ERA-K/9

3.66/8.2

12.46/8.3

4.74/7.0

4.26/4.8

5.19/3.6

3.02/5.7

10.13/13.3

2.33/7.4

5.62/6.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Martinez (70-33-6)
Shoppach (23-13-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 866/.233 48/.429 352/.263 265/.267 76/.273 232/.273 13/.273 189/.228 .265 Sizemore
Michaels
Gutierrez
Dellucci
Blake
Carroll 0/160/0/4
74/1/27/4
9/8/88/3
51/0/0/3
0/0/7/2
0/1/2/0

OPS .668 .989 .714 .702 .751 .727 1.294 .619 .769

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 464/.689 28/1.096 120/.702 151/.705 37/.803 92/.567 9/.905 101/.545 .820

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 402/.643 20/.833 232/.718 114/.696 39/.705 140/.834 4/2.000 88/.707 .739

Road 412/.672 27/.732 168/.499 140/.771 41/.747 126/.740 1/.000 90/.766 .743

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

HR/SB/CS 20/4/1 0/1/0 5/1/2 3/1/0 2/0/0 3/4/6 2/0/0 1/1/1 12/8/3

Usage ····X··· ·····o·X X····X·· ·Xo··o·X ·o···X·· ···X··X· ·o·X···· ··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: DET @ CLE, 7:05pm, Thursday, April 17, 2008 @Jacobs Field

SP: Justin Verlander (25, RHP, 0-2, 6.52)

SP: Fausto Carmona (24, RHP, 1-1, 2.20)

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