TOR @ CLE, Saturday, May 10, 2008 Game Preview

Toronto Blue Jays, 17-20, 5th, 5½ GB, 2½ GB in WC	SP: Dustin McGowan (26, RHP, 2-2, 2.95) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (2-2) 42.2 40 15 14 17 34 2 2.95 2007 (12-10) 169.2 146 80 77 61 144 14 4.08 2006 (1-2) 27.1 35 27 22 25 22 2 7.24 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-2 42.2 40 15 14 17 34 2 2.95 55 2008-05-05 CHW W 7.1 4 0 0 0 6 0 103 76 2008-04-30 @BOS ND 7.1 4 1 1 1 5 1 102 70 2008-04-24 @TBR L 4 4 5 4 7 6 0 88 35 2008-04-19 DET W 7 7 2 2 2 1 0 105 54 2008-04-14 @BAL L 6 10 3 3 1 5 1 97 44 2008-04-09 OAK ND 5 7 2 2 3 7 0 101 49 2008-04-03 @NYY ND 6 4 2 2 3 4 0 99 57 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CLE 0-1 10 14 9 9 6 10 2 8.10 37 2007-05-03 @CLE ND 5 6 5 5 5 4 0 103 34 2005-08-26 CLE L 5 8 4 4 1 6 2 88 40
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 10-9 Road: 7-11 ExtrInn: 1-3 vsRHP: 14-14 vsLHP: 3-6 1-Run: 4-9 vsEast: 7-10 vsCntrl: 7-5 vsWest: 3-5 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 37 Fri, May 9 @CLE L 1-6 17-20 5th 5.5 gb 36 Thu, May 8 TBR L 3-8 (13) 17-19 5th 5.5 gb 35 Wed, May 7 TBR W 6-2 17-18 3rd 4.5 gb 34 Tue, May 6 TBR L 4-5 16-18 5th 5.5 gb 33 Mon, May 5 CHW W 1-0 16-17 5th 4.5 gb 32 Sun, May 4 CHW W 4-3 15-17 5th 4.5 gb 31 Sat, May 3 CHW W 5-2 14-17 5th 4.5 gb 30 Fri, May 2 CHW W 2-0 13-17 5th 4.5 gb 29 Thu, May 1 @BOS W 3-0 12-17 5th 4.5 gb 28 Wed, Apr 30 @BOS L 1-2 11-17 5th 5.5 gb Last 10: 6-4 Last 20: 9-11 Last 30:13-17
Cleveland Indians, 17-18, 3rd, 1½ GB, 1½ GB in WC	SP: Aaron Laffey (23, LHP, 0-2, 2.84) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-2) 12.2 7 5 4 3 6 0 2.84 2007 (4-2) 49.1 54 26 25 12 25 2 4.56 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-3 38.2 35 18 16 10 18 0 3.72 51 2008-05-04 KCR L 7 4 1 0 2 5 0 103 70 2008-04-28 NYY L 5.2 3 4 4 1 1 0 78 47 2007-09-30 @KCR W 5 4 1 1 0 2 0 58 57 2007-09-25 @SEA ND 5.2 4 1 1 2 3 0 75 58 2007-09-16 KCR L 6.1 8 4 4 2 3 0 83 42 2007-09-09 @LAA W 5 6 2 1 2 3 0 85 50 2007-09-04 @MIN ND 4 6 5 5 1 1 0 67 30 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.TOR Has never faced TOR.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 9-11 Road: 8-7 ExtrInn: 1-1 vsRHP: 12-13 vsLHP: 5-5 1-Run: 4-3 vsEast: 5-5 vsCntrl: 7-6 vsWest: 5-7 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 35 Fri, May 9 TOR W 6-1 17-18 3rd 1.5 gb 34 Thu, May 8 @NYY L 3-6 16-18 3rd 1.5 gb 33 Wed, May 7 @NYY W 3-0 16-17 2nd 1.5 gb 32 Tue, May 6 @NYY W 5-3 15-17 3rd 1.5 gb 31 Sun, May 4 KCR L 0-2 14-17 4th 2.5 gb 30 Sat, May 3 KCR L 2-4 14-16 3rd 1.5 gb 29 Thu, May 1 SEA W 3-2 (11) 14-15 2nd 1.5 gb 28 Wed, Apr 30 SEA W 8-3 13-15 3rd 2.0 gb 27 Tue, Apr 29 SEA L 2-7 12-15 4th 3.0 gb 26 Mon, Apr 28 NYY L 2-5 12-14 2nd 3.0 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20:12-8 Last 30:15-15
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Fri, May 09, 2008 CLE 6 TOR 1 W:C.C. Sabathia (2-5), L: Roy Halladay (3-5), S: none Sun, Jul 08, 2007 TOR 1 CLE 0 W:Jeremy Accardo (2-3), L: Paul Byrd (7-4), S: none Sat, Jul 07, 2007 CLE 9 @TOR 4 W:Fausto Carmona (10-4), L: Shaun Marcum (4-3), S: none Fri, Jul 06, 2007 TOR 8 CLE 6 W:Roy Halladay (10-3), L: Cliff Lee (5-5), S: Jeremy Accardo (11) Thu, May 03, 2007 CLE 6 TOR 5 W:Aaron Fultz (3-0), L: Jason Frasor (1-1), S: Joe Borowski (10) Wed, May 02, 2007 CLE 7 TOR 6 (11) W:Tom Mastny (2-0), L: Shaun Marcum (1-2), S: none Tue, May 01, 2007 CLE 12 TOR 4 W:C.C. Sabathia (4-0), L: A.J. Burnett (2-2), S: none Wed, Sep 06, 2006 TOR 3 CLE 2 W:Ted Lilly (12-12), L: Jake Westbrook (12-9), S: B.J. Ryan (31) Tue, Sep 05, 2006 CLE 7 @TOR 2 W:Jeremy Sowers (7-3), L: Jeremy Accardo (2-4), S: none Mon, Sep 04, 2006 TOR 4 CLE 3 W:Brandon League (1-2), L: C.C. Sabathia (10-9), S: B.J. Ryan (30) Season Series: 2008 - CLE leads 1-0; 2007 - CLE won 4-2; 2006 - CLE won 4-2; All-Time - TOR leads 173-168

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 5.66

TEX 4.51

SDP 3.31

RA/G

OAK 3.59

SEA 4.46

PIT 5.54

OBP

SLG

OPS

ERA

C. Lee .81

T. Redding 3.83

N. Robertson 6.64

K/9IP

E. Volquez 11.06

T. Redding 6.04

J. Garland 2.07

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Toronto Blue Jays Batters (3.92 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (3.94 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 32.Laffey*
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

20.Barajas G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· 58/38 .226/.293/.340/.633 .850/.520 .605 48/.617 0/0 1/

2.Hill G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/no AB 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 156/122 .262/.318/.390/.708 .856/.669 .660 113/.660 3/0 2/

36.Mench G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 6/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/ .000/.333/.000/.333 .333/ .333 3/.333 1/0 0/

17.Overbay* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 3/1.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 139/105 .272/.384/.368/.752 .492/.843 .737 98/.777 0/2 1/

15.Rios G/S/vP ··· 7/.762 2/.500 10/.522 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/4.000 157/122 .271/.338/.421/.759 .481/.840 .848 111/.711 8/2 3/

33.Rolen G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 55/43 .333/.400/.604/1.004 .333/1.215 .993 55/1.004 1/0 2/

19.Scutaro G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 98/74 .238/.371/.313/.684 .875/.620 .610 57/.779 3/2 1/

24.Stairs* G/S/vP ··· 8/.500 ··· 4/1.250 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 110/99 .275/.318/.422/.740 .282/.790 .804 87/.778 0/0 4/

23.Stewart G/S/vP ··· 11/1.000 ··· 10/.311 ··· 1/.000 3/1.334 2/1.000 95/70 .226/.305/.286/.591 .829/.510 .481 69/.591 1/0 0/

4.Velandia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

10.Wells G/S/vP ··· 6/.666 1/.000 13/.077 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 155/121 .281/.348/.439/.787 .845/.771 .669 109/.678 1/2 5/

35.Wilkerson* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB ··· 2/.500 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 72/66 .237/.348/.305/.653 .667/.652 .817 36/.778 1/2 0/

9.Zaun# G/S/vP ··· 4/1.750 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 104/80 .270/.363/.360/.722 .521/.799 .741 76/.768 2/1 1/

IP 12.2 14.2 6.0 13.1 17.1 21.1 1.2 16.1 TOTAL .254/.334/.372/.705 .640/.724 .683 .694 27/12 24/21

ERA-K/9

2.84/4.3

5.52/8.6

3.00/6.0

3.38/6.8

2.08/5.2

2.95/6.3

10.80/15.9

3.86/7.7

3.72/6.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Barajas (4-3-0)
Zaun (17-5-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 52/.149 63/.300 29/.250 54/.213 71/.261 93/.253 11/.250 71/.281 .257 Rios
Wells
Wilkerson
Stewart
Scutaro
Stairs 0/2/33/3
0/36/0/3
1/0/20/1
20/0/0/1
2/0/0/1
7/0/2/0

OPS .380 .856 .671 .655 .644 .743 .830 .758 .716

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 21/.145 32/.450 7/.762 25/.789 31/.756 43/.747 2/.500 33/.544 .736

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 31/.545 31/1.267 22/.641 29/.545 40/.558 50/.740 9/.873 38/.938 .701

Home 52/.380 38/.910 20/.753 28/.851 51/.621 72/.780 11/.830 30/.741 .740

Last 28d days 52/.380 41/.694 12/1.000 26/.619 53/.591 73/.778 11/.830 59/.782

HR/SB/CS 0/0/0 4/3/0 0/2/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 2/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/2 36/12/9

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

Cleveland Indians Batters (4.26 RS/G) vs. Toronto Blue Jays Pitchers (3.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 29.McGowan
G/S/vB 49.Accardo
G/S/vB 57.Camp
G/S/vB 43.Carlson*
G/S/vB 37.Downs*
G/S/vB 54.Frasor
G/S/vB 52.Ryan*
G/S/vB 56.Tallet*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

1.Blake G/S/vP 2/.000 6/.500 12/.440 ··· 5/1.200 4/.250 5/.400 3/1.334 116/92 .221/.296/.365/.661 .393/.729 .462 82/.746 1/0 2/

13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 112/84 .181/.291/.234/.525 .367/.589 .399 73/.489 0/1 0/

7.Carroll G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 1/no AB ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 2/.500 58/37 .200/.357/.244/.602 .697/.535 .825 49/.638 3/0 0/

20.Dellucci* G/S/vP 6/.733 1/no AB 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 6/1.500 1/no AB 2/1.500 95/93 .250/.326/.440/.767 .500/.768 .668 72/.739 1/0 4/

12.Francisco G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/5.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 19/16 .389/.421/.556/.977 .667/1.038 3.000 19/.977 0/2 0/

25.Garko G/S/vP 3/1.333 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 3/.000 2/.000 2/.500 130/102 .236/.346/.336/.683 .986/.605 .742 88/.583 0/0 2/

38.Gutierrez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 120/90 .245/.291/.345/.636 .698/.615 .769 91/.676 3/1 2/

48.Hafner* G/S/vP 6/1.133 4/1.833 6/2.334 ··· 5/.650 5/.200 5/.000 3/.667 137/102 .220/.314/.356/.670 .665/.672 .692 93/.599 0/1 3/

15.Marte G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 3/.667 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 23/20 .105/.190/.105/.296 .667/.222 .000 20/.229 0/0 0/

41.Martinez# G/S/vP 6/2.333 4/1.000 9/.777 ··· 8/.393 4/.833 5/.600 3/1.667 108/75 .340/.380/.400/.780 1.086/.629 .805 93/.787 0/0 0/

2.Peralta G/S/vP 6/.167 4/.000 6/.533 ··· 3/.333 4/2.417 3/2.334 2/.000 128/102 .216/.276/.397/.672 .869/.618 .472 90/.526 1/0 6/

10.Shoppach G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 52/37 .261/.333/.370/.703 .429/.816 .940 28/.601 0/0 1/

24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 6/.666 4/.500 8/.875 1/.000 10/.000 6/.833 1/.000 4/.583 152/106 .270/.388/.421/.809 .699/.855 .944 105/.814 7/2 4/

IP 42.2 12.1 6.2 15.2 14.2 9.2 9.0 15.0 TOTAL .240/.322/.356/.678 .691/.674 .671 .666 17/8 24/17

ERA-K/9

2.95/7.2

6.57/3.7

6.75/10.7

1.72/10.3

3.07/9.8

2.79/8.4

0.00/11.0

1.80/9.0

3.45/7.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Martinez (12-8-0)
Shoppach (0-1-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 176/.258 56/.300 27/.240 59/.164 69/.276 38/.242 38/.188 65/.214 .239 Gutierrez
Carroll
Dellucci
Sizemore
Francisco 0/3/31/1
1/0/0/0
27/0/0/0
0/33/0/0
4/0/3/0

OPS .693 .857 .619 .548 .770 .619 .566 .547 .679

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 85/.655 23/.941 12/1.117 29/.352 31/.690 14/.593 14/.298 29/.468 .692

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 91/.726 33/.800 15/.267 30/.744 38/.839 24/.633 24/.725 36/.614 .667

Road 98/.758 17/.580 8/.500 32/.638 35/1.034 8/.575 16/.583 23/.618 .686

Last 28d days 129/.675 32/.777 27/.619 53/.613 47/.773 25/.684 38/.566 41/.782

HR/SB/CS 2/5/2 1/1/0 1/2/0 2/0/0 1/0/0 0/2/1 0/0/0 0/2/0 27/21/8

Usage ····X··· oo···o·o ·X·oo··o oo··oo·o ·Xo··ooo ·X······ ·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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Game Preview: TOR @ CLE, 7:05pm, Saturday, May 10, 2008 @Jacobs Field

SP: Dustin McGowan (26, RHP, 2-2, 2.95)

SP: Aaron Laffey (23, LHP, 0-2, 2.84)

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