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Game Preview: NYY @ CLE, 1:05pm, Sunday, April 27, 2008 @Jacobs Field

New York Yankees, 12-13, 4th, 2½ GB, 2½ GB in WC

SP: Chien-Ming Wang (28, RHP, 4-0, 3.94)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (4-0)             32    31  14  14   9  18  1    3.94      
 2007 (19-7)           199.1 199  84  82  59 104  9    3.70      
 2006 (19-6)           218   233  92  88  52  76 12    3.63      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         5-0  45    44  18  17  13  28  2    3.40   54 
 2008-04-22   @CHW   W   6    10   3   3   2   5  0     105   43 
 2008-04-16    BOS  ND   4     9   8   8   3   2  0      69   11 
 2008-04-11   @BOS   W   9     2   1   1   0   3  1      93   82 
 2008-04-06    TBR   W   6     4   0   0   2   6  0      96   68 
 2008-04-01    TOR   W   7     6   2   2   2   2  0      92   57 
 2007-09-26   @TBD   W   6     7   2   2   3   6  1      94   53 
 2007-09-21    TOR  ND   7     6   2   1   1   4  0     100   62 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.CLE      2-1  19.1  23   8   8   6   8  2    3.72   48 
 2006-07-03   @CLE   L   5.1  11   5   5   2   2  1     106   26 
 2006-06-13    CLE   W   7.1   5   0   0   1   3  0      90   70 
 2005-07-08    CLE   W   6.2   7   3   3   3   3  1     110   48 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    5-4    Road:    7-9    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:  11-11   vsLHP:   1-2    1-Run:   3-3 
 vsEast:  9-8    vsCntrl: 3-5    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 25 Sat, Apr 26  @CLE  L   3-4       12-13  4th  2.5 gb
 24 Fri, Apr 25  @CLE  L   4-6       12-12  4th  2.5 gb
 23 Thu, Apr 24  @CHW  L   6-7       12-11  3rd  2.5 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 23  @CHW  W   6-4       12-10  3rd  2.5 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 22  @CHW  W   9-5       11-10  3rd  3.5 gb
 20 Sun, Apr 20  @BAL  W   7-1       10-10  4th  3.0 gb
 19 Sat, Apr 19  @BAL  L   0-6        9-10  4th  3.0 gb
 18 Fri, Apr 18  @BAL  L   2-8        9-9   3rd  2.0 gb
 17 Thu, Apr 17   BOS  L   5-7        9-8   3rd  1.0 gb
 16 Wed, Apr 16   BOS  W  15-9        9-7   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:12-13
Cleveland Indians, 12-12, 2nd, 1½ GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: C.C. Sabathia (27, LHP, 1-3, 10.13)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-3)             24    36  27  27  16  25  5   10.13      
 2007 (19-7)           241   238  94  86  37 209 20    3.21      
 2006 (12-11)          192.2 182  83  69  44 172 17    3.22      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-3  38    49  32  32  18  36  6    7.58   39 
 2008-04-22   @KCR   W   6     4   0   0   2  11  0     102   73 
 2008-04-16    DET   L   4     8   9   9   5   1  2      93    6 
 2008-04-11    OAK   L   3.1  12   9   9   2   4  0      91    2 
 2008-04-05   @OAK   L   5.1   6   4   4   4   2  1     107   38 
 2008-03-31    CHW  ND   5.1   6   5   5   3   7  2     100   40 
 2007-09-28   @KCR   W   7     8   3   3   1   4  1      96   52 
 2007-09-19    DET   W   7     5   2   2   1   7  0     109   65 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.NYY      0-5  32    29  23  21  18  18  6    5.91   45 
 2004-09-01   @NYY   L   6     5   3   3   4   3  2     109   49 
 2003-07-19   @NYY   L   6     6   6   6   1   5  2      99   40 
 2003-07-09    NYY   L   7     5   4   2   6   6  0     120   55 
 2002-07-11    NYY   L   7     6   4   4   5   1  1     114   45 
 2002-07-03   @NYY   L   6     7   6   6   2   3  1      83   35 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    6-6    Road:    6-6    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   9-7    vsLHP:   3-5    1-Run:   3-2 
 vsEast:  2-2    vsCntrl: 7-4    vsWest:  3-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 24 Sat, Apr 26   NYY  W   4-3       12-12  2nd  1.5 gb
 23 Fri, Apr 25   NYY  W   6-4       11-12  2nd  2.0 gb
 22 Thu, Apr 24  @KCR  W   2-0       10-12  2nd  2.5 gb
 21 Thu, Apr 24  @KCR  W   9-6        9-12  2nd  2.5 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 22  @KCR  W  15-1        8-12  4th  3.5 gb
 19 Sun, Apr 20  @MIN  L   1-2 (10)   7-12  4th  4.5 gb
 18 Sat, Apr 19  @MIN  L   0-3        7-11  4th  3.5 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 18  @MIN  W   4-0        7-10  3rd  3.5 gb
 16 Thu, Apr 17   DET  W  11-1        6-10  4th  3.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 16   DET  L   2-13       5-10  4th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:12-12
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 CLE  4  NYY  3        W:Masahide Kobayashi (1-0), L: Ross Ohlendorf (0-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 CLE  6  NYY  4        W:Paul Byrd (1-2), L: Andy Pettitte (3-2), S: Rafael Betancourt (2)

Sun, Aug 12, 2007 NYY  5 @CLE  3        W:Andy Pettitte (9-7), L: Jake Westbrook (3-7), S: Mariano Rivera (19)
Sat, Aug 11, 2007 NYY 11 @CLE  2        W:Mike Mussina (8-7), L: Paul Byrd (10-5), S: none
Fri, Aug 10, 2007 NYY  6 @CLE  1        W:Philip Hughes (2-1), L: Fausto Carmona (13-7), S: none
Thu, Apr 19, 2007 NYY  8  CLE  6        W:Sean Henn (1-0), L: Joe Borowski (0-1), S: none
Wed, Apr 18, 2007 NYY  9  CLE  2        W:Kei Igawa (1-0), L: Jeremy Sowers (0-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 17, 2007 NYY 10  CLE  3        W:Chase Wright (1-0), L: Jake Westbrook (0-2), S: none
Thu, Jul 06, 2006 NYY 10 @CLE  4        W:Randy Johnson (10-7), L: Cliff Lee (8-6), S: none
Wed, Jul 05, 2006 NYY 11 @CLE  3        W:Mike Mussina (10-3), L: Paul Byrd (6-6), S: none
Season Series: 2008 - CLE leads 2-0; 2007 - NYY won 6-0; 2006 - NYY won 4-3; All-Time - NYY leads 1077-859

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.

New York Yankees Batters (4.52 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (4.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Sabathia*
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/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Abreu* G/S/vP 4/.833 2/1.000 2/.500 6/.500 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 1/.000 699/532 .283/.369/.445/.814 .678/.857 .725 / 25/8 16/4
28.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 612/445 .273/.327/.391/.718 .641/.747 .746 / 13/5 8/4
24.Cano* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 2/.500 669/458 .306/.353/.488/.841 .864/.831 .816 / 4/5 19/13
18.Damon* G/S/vP 15/.481 4/1.500 ··· 20/.358 1/2.000 1/3.000 2/.000 1/.000 605/448 .270/.351/.396/.747 .705/.762 .750 / 27/3 12/3
17.Duncan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 83/45 .257/.329/.554/.883 .984/.801 .669 / 0/0 7/0
11.Ensberg G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· 324/205 .230/.320/.404/.724 .830/.661 .860 / 0/1 12/13
25.Giambi* G/S/vP 15/.515 3/.000 1/3.000 8/.625 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 3/.000 303/227 .236/.356/.433/.790 .782/.789 .806 / 1/0 14/1
12.Gonzalez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 15/12 .071/.133/.071/.205 .667/.083 .220 / 0/1 0/1
2.Jeter G/S/vP 24/1.219 6/.666 ··· 15/.133 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.666 2/1.000 714/550 .322/.388/.452/.840 .876/.830 .835 / 15/8 12/18
55.Matsui* G/S/vP 10/.100 2/.000 ··· 10/1.625 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 634/443 .285/.367/.488/.855 .814/.872 .821 / 4/2 25/3
26.Molina G/S/vP 8/.000 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 202/151 .257/.274/.340/.614 .853/.530 .572 / 2/1 1/4
20.Posada# G/S/vP 18/1.213 2/.000 ··· 12/.555 1/.000 1/4.000 1/.000 2/.000 589/421 .338/.426/.543/.970 .942/.981 1.007 / 2/0 20/5
13.Rodriguez G/S/vP 19/1.062 4/.000 1/no AB 10/.644 ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 2/.000 708/532 .314/.422/.645/1.067 .961/1.099 1.101 / 24/4 54/13
IP 241.0 79.1 62.0 29.1 57.2 60.2 TOTAL .268/.337/.436/.772 .698/.789 .783 .772 10/5 27/14
ERA-K/9 3.21/7.8 1.47/9.1 /0.0 5.23/8.1 /0.0 2.15/10.4 4.68/8.1 1.78/9.2 4.12/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Molina (31-13-4)
 Posada (102-32-13)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 975/.259 289/.183 / 280/.283 / 125/.234 262/.283 236/.187 .266  Cabrera
 Matsui
 Abreu
 Damon
 Duncan
18/131/5/16
112/0/0/6
0/0/157/6
32/48/1/3
4/0/8/2
OPS .684 .485 .813 .616 .809 .531 .753
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 213/.545 113/.617 / 115/.624 / 47/.548 103/.861 92/.450 .763
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 762/.723 176/.400 / 165/.942 / 78/.656 159/.777 144/.580 .744
Home 550/.648 136/.480 / 136/.692 / 65/.738 127/.841 120/.561 .826
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 20/10/10 4/4/4 // 8/12/2 // 1/0/1 6/4/2 5/2/1 27/6/5
Usage ····X··· ·oX·o··· ········ ····o··X X·X···o· X·o·X··· ········ ·XX···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 (4.79 RS/G) vs. New York Yankees Pitchers (4.76 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Wang
G/S/vB
63.Albaladejo
G/S/vB
38.Britton
G/S/vB
62.Chamberlain
G/S/vB
48.Farnsworth
G/S/vB
22.Hawkins
G/S/vB
39.Ohlendorf
G/S/vB
42.Rivera
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Blake G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 3/.333 5/.000 1/.000 5/.700 662/473 .270/.339/.437/.776 .827/.757 .706 / 4/5 18/14
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 186/136 .283/.354/.421/.775 .950/.702 .704 / 0/0 3/1
7.Carroll G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· 268/150 .225/.317/.300/.616 .705/.543 .527 / 6/2 2/4
20.Dellucci* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 4/.500 199/173 .230/.296/.382/.679 .481/.709 .608 / 2/1 4/0
25.Garko G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 541/378 .289/.359/.483/.842 .914/.812 .856 / 0/1 21/8
38.Gutierrez G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/3.000 ··· 1/3.000 301/198 .266/.318/.472/.790 .920/.722 .974 / 8/3 13/1
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 9/.611 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 7/.429 1/no AB 4/.000 661/420 .266/.385/.451/.837 .837/.836 .789 / 1/1 24/0
15.Marte G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 60/41 .193/.233/.316/.549 .594/.528 .713 / 0/0 1/4
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 9/.555 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 4/.500 4/.750 1/2.000 7/.572 645/414 .301/.374/.505/.879 .825/.908 .871 / 0/0 25/5
8.Michaels G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 3/.000 2/.500 ··· 1/2.000 295/139 .270/.324/.397/.721 .800/.636 .782 / 3/4 7/1
2.Peralta G/S/vP 6/.833 1/.000 4/.500 ··· 3/.000 6/.533 ··· 5/.400 647/482 .270/.341/.430/.771 .820/.754 .881 / 4/4 21/19
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 177/136 .261/.310/.472/.782 1.126/.687 .823 / 0/0 7/4
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 9/1.111 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 4/1.250 1/no AB 1/2.000 4/.000 748/503 .277/.390/.462/.852 .812/.872 .906 / 33/10 24/2
IP 199.1 14.1 12.2 24.0 60.0 55.1 6.1 71.1 TOTAL .251/.337/.382/.719 .695/.727 .720 .719 14/4 20/10
ERA-K/9 3.70/4.7 1.88/7.6 3.55/3.5 0.38/12.8 4.80/7.2 3.42/4.7 2.84/12.9 3.15/9.3 4.74/6.2

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 823/.265 51/.149 51/.196 91/.145 266/.256 225/.252 26/.208 295/.248 .272  Michaels
 Sizemore
 Gutierrez
 Dellucci
 Blake
 Carroll
74/1/27/4
0/160/0/4
9/8/88/3
51/0/0/3
0/0/7/2
0/1/2/0
OPS .692 .451 .630 .440 .750 .698 .603 .644 .740
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 430/.764 23/.626 19/.461 42/.406 132/.824 110/.735 15/.733 146/.618 .731
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 393/.613 28/.299 32/.726 49/.469 134/.680 115/.665 11/.384 149/.670 .747
Road 380/.750 26/.512 24/.641 55/.541 138/.772 115/.807 22/.718 158/.657 .757
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 9/14/7 1/1/0 2/1/0 1/1/0 9/9/2 6/2/1 1/0/0 4/2/1 21/29/12
Usage ····X··· ·X······ ··X·X·oX X·o·X··· X·Xo···· o·X····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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